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Book SynopsisThis step-by-step guide to preventing panic attacks provides simple strategies for stopping a panic attack on the spot and overcoming them in the long-term. Sharing her personal and professional experience of panic and anxiety disorders, clinical psychologist Sandra Scheinbaum presents tried-and-tested methods, including new cutting-edge approaches based on functional medicine.
You will learn how to:
- Understand what panic attacks are and recognise symptoms
- Trust your body's own calming methods to control panic without the need for medication
- Find your abdominal breath and relaxed breathing patterns
- Let go of clenching and muscle tension through relaxation exercises and postural awareness
- Use positive mental imagery and avoid irrational thinking
- Find deep belly laughter, even in the midst of a panic episode
- Eat well with calming foods and advice on supplements.
The ten easy steps in this book will help readers to control their fight or flight response and overcome panic attacks naturally and permanently.
Trade ReviewThis is a very practical book on how to deal with panic attacks by an experienced clinical psychologist. It is a step-by-step approach to tackle what many of us experience sometime in our lives: panic or anxiety attacks. If you suffer, this will be a great resource to support and help you. -- Prof. Cary L. Cooper, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University
A superb, streamlined, simplistic approach to the overwhelming fear and frenzy of the internal tsunami of panic! Open the book and immediately dive into a solution to reverse the tide of feeling out of control. An excellent navigation guide in those choppy waters of chaos! -- Deanna Minich, PhD, FACN, CNS, author and Functional Medicine nutritionist, founder of Food & Spirit™ (www.foodandspirit.com)
Table of ContentsPreface. Step 1. Let Go of 'Fearing Fear'. Step 2. Recognize Panic as your Alarm System at Work. Step 3. Take Slow Belly Breaths. Step 4. Let Go of Clenching. Step 5. Imagine Something Good. Step 6. Think Rationally. Step 7. Distract Yourself. Step 8. Eat Calming Foods. Step 9. Use Nature's Medicine Chest. Step 10. Embrace Your Character Strengths. Appendix. Resources. Basic Recipes. 7-Day Strengths Diary.
