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Hijacked by Your Brain

How to Free Yourself When Stress Takes Over

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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 things
  • Get angry at the people you love
  • Choke under pressure
  • Feel tense and worried all the time
  • Procrastinate or give up in the face of a crucial deadline
  • Use food, alcohol, gambling, or other addictions to cope
  • Dwell on the past when you just want to move on
  • Hijacked 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.

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      • Library Journal

        December 1, 2012

        Ford (psychiatry, Univ. of Connecticut) and leadership coach Wortmann base their advice on the notion that stressful events trigger a change in the brain itself, and that they can be managed. They 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. Tristan (psychiatry, Univ. of Texas) writes to those who are handicapped by worry and anxiety. Using case studies, quizzes, and research, she presents a four-step program (being aware of choices, changing one's outlook, risking to recover, and embracing one's spirit) to eliminate worry. The books overlap in describing causes and techniques, but Ford and Wortmann include more about the biology of the brain and the neurological components for change. Tristan brings together the underlying principles of cognitive behavior therapy, spiritual and relaxation practices, and diet and lifestyle changes to master stress. Ford and Wortmann are a bit more clinical, but will be readily absorbed by the average person who needs assistance with tension. Tristan's work is friendlier to general readers and will help those on all gradations on the stress continuum. One can't lose with either.

        Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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