Hijacked by Your Brain

Take control and train your brain to break free from the stresses of everyday life.What do you do when stress takes over your life, and nothing you do to feel better seems to work?When you...Melt down over the smallest thingsGet angry at the people you loveChoke under pressureFeel tense and worried all the timeProcrastinate or give up in the face of a crucial deadlineUse food, alcohol, gambling, or other addictions to copeDwell on the past when you just want to move onHijacked by Your Brain is the first book to explain how stress changes your brain and what you can do about it. Stress is not the enemy. In order to reduce stress, you have to understand why your brain causes you to feel stress and how you can take advantage of it to handle the high-stress people and situations in your life.This groundbreaking book reveals the step missing in most stress reduction guides. We can't stop stress, but we can control the effect stress has on us.Hijacked by Your Brain is the user's manual for your brain that shows you how to free yourself when stress takes over.

“"[Ford and Wortmann] teach the average person how to prepare for stressful life events through preventative actions--standing back, orienting, and self-checking--and pave the way for a productive response to the stressor. ... will be readily absorbed by the average person who needs assistance with tension." - Library Journal”

"A PTSD expert explains how stress sets off your brain - and how you can learn to diffuse it." - ELLE

Dr. Julian Ford (Author)JULIAN FORD is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is also the director of the University of Connecticut Health Center Child Trauma Clinic and Center for Trauma Response Recovery and Preparedness and CEO of Advanced Trauma Solutions, Inc.Jon Wortmann (Author)JON WORTMANN is an author, minister, and consultant to educational, non-profit, start-up, and Fortune 100 organizations. Jon lives in Connecticut.

From an expert in traumatic stress disorders, Hijacked by Your Brain reveals a groundbreaking way to help our brains deal with the stress of life. This book explains how to switch our focus from alarming thoughts and feelings to those that allow us to feel free, even in stressful situations. We can locate the part of our brain that triggers an alarm state, and reeducate it to react the way we need it to. The techniques described will demonstrate how readers can more easily choose to be calm and confident. We can't stop stress, but we can control the effect stress has on us.

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