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Anxiety: What turns it on. What turns it off. Paperback – December 6, 2017

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You can replace the siren blast of cortisol with the great feeling of serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin. Here's how to build a new safety circuit to divert your electricity in a moment of anxiety. Nothing is wrong with you! Your brain is doing the job it evolved for: promoting your survival. It defines survival in a quirky way, alas, but you have the power to rewire it. Here’s how.ContentsIntroduction: Your natural threat detector and your natural sense of safetyPart 1: Why Your Anxiety Turns On1. The Alarm System We All Share2. Your Unique Individual Alarm SystemPart 2: How to Turn Off Your Anxiety3. How to Build New Circuits in Your Brain4. Design the Perfect New Circuits for YouEpilogue: Three Circuits I Rewired
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    94 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    December 6, 2017
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.22 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1941959105
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1941959107
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Inner Mammal Institute (December 6, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 94 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941959105
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941959107
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.22 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 60 ratings

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Loretta Graziano Breuning

Loretta Graziano Breuning

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Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD is Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She's the author of many books on happiness, including: Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.

As a teacher and mom, Loretta was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. Then she learned about the brain chemistry we share with earlier mammals, and everything made sense. So she began creating resources to help people manage their inner mammal. Her work has helped thousands of people rewire themselves for more happy chemicals.

Dr Breuning's work has been featured in major media and translated into many languages. She speaks publicly on many webinars, podcasts, and conferences. Details on her website: innermammalinstitute.org

Before teaching, Loretta worked in Africa for the United Nations. She offers zoo tours on animal behavior after volunteering as a Docent at the Oakland Zoo. She holds a BS from Cornell University and a PhD from Tufts University. In her free time, she travels to historic places and studies foreign languages.

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Gregory L Griffin
5.0 out of 5 stars Get your copy and work through the exercises to exit anxiety.
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2018
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Dr. Breuning’s books show how to use the cortex and sub-cortex parts of the brain together more efficiently by rewiring new neural pathways to replace accidental circuits that don’t serve us well today. Building on Habits of a Happy Brain groundwork, this book adds the steps to set up a trigger for exit from anxiety, then 1-minute to listen to your inner mammal needs, followed by a pleasant 20-minute distraction that links short term rewards to the 45-day new habit practice and finally a 1-minute step to make your inner mammal expect to meet its needs so you can start being rewarded for taking steps. A common theme in her books methods is to reframe issues and appreciate the good in things to replace our usual bias of constantly scanning for unrealistic threats. What we focus our attention on defines who we will be and whether we will experience more happiness or more suffering along our journey. So as somebody authentic once said, “get rid of those crisis goggles.”
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Susan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book with Practical Advice for Turning Off Your Anxiety
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018
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This book is a terrific, quick read. It’s enjoyable (loaded with interesting scientific facts and examples), and very helpful. Dr. Breuning offers easy steps to practice (that’s the key for change to take place), to help ease anxiety and build new neuropathways and habits. The benefit? Understanding and being realistic about why you’re feeling a certain way (without feeling bad about it), while also learning new steps to meet your needs, calming anxiety by taking action to increase your “feel good” neurochemicals. I highly recommend this book!
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Corina Duta
5.0 out of 5 stars Very easy and fast to read
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2018
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Very easy and fast to read, explained very clear! It helped me 1)in the idea of understanding why one has anxiety and 2) and the most important, how to cooperate with it, and it really works. Totally recommend it!
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Sadi Thann
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Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2018
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I stumbled across this book randomly. I liked learning about what’s happening inside our bodies while anxiety is happening and ways we can manage and control it. Really helpful
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Terrance
5.0 out of 5 stars It Delivers
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2019
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Very informative and benificial.
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Nicole
1.0 out of 5 stars Not a professionally written book
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2020
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I heard great things about the author, but I was disappointed with this book. Within the first few pages, I noticed several typos. The language is very simple-seems to be more appropriate for someone in middle school or at a low reading level. It was cheap so I didn’t bother returning.
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Lukasz Stempniewicz
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-opening
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2018
Great book. Opened my eyes to viewing our actions from an evolutionary perspective. To be honest I have minimal anxiety but a keen interest inhow it works. I recommend this to anyone that wants a brief insight to what motivates us. Not sure if her method for turning off Anxiety works, but I wouldn't doubt that it does.Time to read her other books!
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Carol Ferguson
2.0 out of 5 stars I don’t recommend it
Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2020
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Not as good as I thought was disappointed not much help at all
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Andrejs
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for general knowledge.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2018
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Loretta writes about mamal brain and expressing good point of view with evidences, but the method to overcome anxiety is weird. In my opinion cognitive-behavioral sessions have working method which is not weird and logic. Anyway strongly recommend this book, and not first I read released by Loretta,
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Mike Marinos
5.0 out of 5 stars useful. It focuses the experience with enough background to ...
Reviewed in Australia on February 27, 2018
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A quick and engaging read and more importantly, useful. It focuses the experience with enough background to make the reason for the exercises understandable. The background information and general presentation is firmly rooted in the day to day. I got immediate benefit from the book, was presented with a few home truths, was challenged in a few places and have recommended it to everyone I know.
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