5 Best Audiobooks for Anxiety
These best-selling audiobooks from anxiety experts offer proven-effective techniques for beating anxiety.
Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question our decisions and ourselves, worry about the future, and it fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. These 5 best audiobooks for anxiety can help us understand the nature of anxiety and how the brain works. As a result, we can respond differently to anxiety, panic, worry, and phobias, and feel empowered and motivated to overcome it.
Our brains are potent tools, and the more we work to change how we respond to fear, the more resilient we become. Using the practical, step-by-step, and proven-effective techniques in these audiobooks, you will learn to literally “rewire” the brain processes that lie at the root of your fears—and break the cycle of chronic anxiety for good.
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The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply “tricked” you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all.
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, psychologist Catherine Pittman, and author Elizabeth Karle offer a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research. Pittman and Karle make addressing anxiety simple by offering specific examples of how to manage fear. You’ll gain a greater understanding of how anxiety is created in the brain, and as a result, you will feel empowered and motivated to overcome it. The brain is a powerful tool, and the more you work to change the way you respond to fear, the more resilient you will become. Using the practical and proven-effective techniques in this audiobook, you will learn to literally “rewire” the brain processes that lie at the root of your fears.
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The Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick (2nd Ed.)
Master your anxiety, and regain your freedom to drive, travel, and do everything else that panic has taken from you, with proven techniques and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) exercises. Clinical psychologist David Carbonell, PhD, uses his extensive experience to help you understand the true nature of your panic attacks, how you can halt this self-destructive process, and the many ways you can start on a step-by-step journey that promotes recovery.
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Don't Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life: Using the Science of Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness to Overcome Fear and Worry
Based in the latest research from Yale University psychologist and professor, Dr. David Klemanski, the simple yet powerful mindfulness tips in this audiobook will help you stay calm, collected, and make significant improvements in your everyday life, whether at work, at home, or in your relationships. Using these easy mindfulness practices, you’ll learn to manage your emotions and lessen your anxiety, leading to improvements in your social life, work obligations, and family responsibilities.
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Fear of Flying Workbook: Overcome Your Anticipatory Anxiety and Develop Skills for Flying with Confidence
You’ve tried to face your fear of flying, but the harder you try to control it, the worse it gets. This audiobook teaches how to work constructively with your brain so you can address your anxiety in new ways-ways that truly help you let go of the fear. Packed with practical exercises, this audiobook helps you better understand both the anticipatory anxiety prior to a flight as well as the fear experienced on board – and provides the tools needed to successfully become a passenger.
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