Frazzlebrain: Break Free from Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology

by Gina Simmons Schneider PhD

Overview

Find lasting relief from worry and stress with powerful techniques grounded in clinical experience and neuroscience. 

If you feel frazzled, you dwell in good company. Racing between the demands of work, health, family, and friends, many people report feelings of worry, irritability, and increasing stress. While we often cannot control stressful life events, we can learn to control our brain's response to those circumstances and reduce our suffering.

Drawing from the latest research and more than 25 years of clinical experience, Dr. Gina Simmons Schneider explains the link between anxiety, anger, and stress and shares groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. These tools will strengthen your resilience and expand your capacity for happiness.

In Frazzlebrain, you'll discover how to:

Soften your response to stress

Overcome toxic self-criticism

Tame hostile and cynical thinking

Activate your brain’s self-healing properties

Create meaningful experiences

Cultivate optimism and hopefulness

Each chapter offers exercises, case examples, and self-improvement skills to help you achieve a calmer, happier, healthier lifestyle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949481624
Publisher:	Central Recovery Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	1,034,001
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

A writer, speaker, psychotherapist, and corporate trainer, Gina Simmons Schneider, PhD, is cofounder of Schneider Counseling and Corporate Solutions. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified coach with more than 25 years of experience providing services for organizations, individuals, and families in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Foreword Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC xiii

Introduction: How to Be Calm in a Frazzled World 1

How frazzled are you?

Soften your response to stress

Activate your brain's self-healing properties

Part I Focused Thoughts 17

Chapter 1 How to Cool Down and Self-Soothe 19

Cultivate patience

Give your feelings a name

Support and soothe yourself

Chapter 2 From Hostility to Hope 43

Taming hostile and cynical attitudes

Overcoming toxic self-criticism

Generating hope

Chapter 3 The Power of Imagination 79

Manage your metaphors

Create your own placebo effect

Visualize to calm your mind

Part II Intentional Behaviors 105

Chapter 4 Care for Your Gut, the Second Brain 107

Balance gut chemistry

Eat mindfully

Attune to your body's music

Chapter 5 Commune with Mature 131

Take a forest bath

Thrive in the pavement jungle

The healing power of living things

Chapter 6 Cultivate Kindness 147

Kindness and your brain

Tend and befriend

Find your greater purpose

Part III Healing Experiences 167

Chapter 7 How Relationships Can Change Your Brain 169

Cultivate nurturing relationships

Create meaningful experiences

Choose uplifting influences

Chapter 8 Cultivate Positive Emotions 201

Perk up with the power of play

Embrace awe and wonder

Build resilience

Chapter 9 How Mindfulness Heals 223

Create moments without judgments

Allow for the awestruck moment

The healing experience of silence

Chapter 10 CalmBrain for Life 237

Track your transformation

Maintain your progress

Stay connected and strong

Acknowledgments 255

Appendix: Finding Support for Change 259

How do you know if you need professional help?

Which type of therapy works the best?

How do you find a therapist?

Should you consider medication?

Bibliography 269

Editorial Reviews

In a stressful time, Frazzlebrain stands as a beacon of calm and kindness, a book that combines experience and common sense, research, and remarkably helpful advice for improving the way we live our lives today.”—Deborah Blum, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

 “Dr. Simmons Schneider has a talent for making complex terms easy to understand. Her book Frazzlebrain is a user-friendly, step-by-step guide of self-improvement skills. She has created a not-to-be-missed model for creating wholeness and happiness in life.”—Cathy Scott, Los Angeles Times bestselling author of The Killing of Tupac Shakur and Murder of a Mafia Daughter

 “Frazzlebrain is destined to become the go-to book for people experiencing anxiety, anger, and stress in their lives. It should also serve as a referring guidebook for clinicians, life coaches, instructors, stress management trainers, and others who seek to give their clients, patients, and students a pathway to move from helpless and hopeless to thriving and resilient.—Dr. Steve Albrecht, HR trainer, security consultant, and employee coach. 

  “Gina Simmons Schneider translates the mind-boggling advances in neuropsychology into beautifully described practical methods and skills for making your body a newfound friend and for calming long-standing patterns in your mind.”—Doug Braun-Harvey, author of Treating Out of Control Sexual Behavior: Rethinking Sex Addiction

 “In her gentle and very informative book, Dr. Simmons Schneider teaches us how to find our internal wisdom and to increase our abilities to face painful emotions, such as anxiety, anger, and frustrations. This book is a much-needed resource for anyone who has ever struggled with stress and anxiety, as it teaches the readers about how to meet even our toughest emotions with ease and kindness.”—Dr. Janina Scarlet, award-winning author of Superhero Therapy

 “Whether chapter-by-chapter or as a whole, Frazzlebrain offers a guidepost to greater inner and interpersonal peace on every page. Prepare to be defrazzled and dazzled by Frazzlebrain.”–Brian H. Spitzberg, PhD, CTM™, Senate Distinguished Professor, School of Communication, San Diego State University 

 

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