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Many people struggle with panic attacks and phobias. Dr. David Carbonell is a psychologist, anxiety expert and author of the audiobook: Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick. Today he tells us there’s good news and bad news about panic attacks, and the phobias that usually accompany them. The bad news is that panic is a devious, insidious trick that can make you a prisoner in your own life, home and head. The good news? It’s only a trick! People can, and do, overcome this trick.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Dr. David Carbonell’s audiobook Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick. In this audiobook, Dr. David Carbonell explains the vicious cycle of habitual responses that lead to debilitating attacks, and he offers detailed instructions to help you stop this process and free yourself from the cycle of panic attacks.

David A. Carbonell, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is the founder and director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd., a small group of psychologists which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias at several locations in and around Chicago.

Dr. Carbonell is also the author of The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It. He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science; the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy; the Illinois Psychological Association; and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

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Dr. Carbonell has written a wonderful, inspiring and comprehensive guidebook for winning over panic attacks. While panic attacks are terrifying for the sufferer, they take over territory in a person’s life by playing a very simple but powerful game. In Panic Attacks Workbook you will find the solid and clever strategies

Author of "Don't Panic"

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In this episode, we’re going to help you relax, let go of stress, and experience a tranquil inner oasis with an abridged meditation from the audiobook Guided Meditations for Letting Go. This guided meditation for letting go utilizes relaxation, mindfulness and visualization to help you recover a sense of inner quiet and spaciousness.

Guided Meditations for Letting Go is a collection of guided meditations designed to help you relax and let go and briefly slip away from life’s demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis. They are perfect for anyone who wants to:

This audiobook is a collection of eight gentle, peaceful and restorative guided meditations, approximately 20 – 25 minutes each.

If you are driving or operating machinery, please listen to this episode at another time. Listen to this meditation only when you can give it your full attention and have no other responsibilities to attend to.

This episode offers a shorter version of a meditation from the collection Guided Meditations for Letting Go. Before you start this guided meditation for letting go, be sure you’re in a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed. Remember to turn off the phone or other devices that might interrupt you.

Please enjoy these meditations only in circumstances where you can give them your full attention and have no other responsibilities to tend to. Never listen while driving or operating machinery.

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Psychologist Dr. Amy Johnson shares some great advice about how to break bad habits without using willpower. Your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that can be easily changed. If you want to understand the science behind any bad habit, make the decision to end it, and commit to real, lasting change, her audiobook, The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit will help you to finally take charge of your life—once and for all! Today we offer an excerpt from The Little Book of Big Change.

Today, we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit, written by psychologist Amy Johnson, who teaches us that no matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Dr. Johnson draws on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality to illustrate a profound truth: you are not your habits. Your mental patterns are the result of simple brain wiring that can be easily changed.

In this episode, Dr. Johnson shares a surprising truth about willpower: It often fails people when they are in the grip of their urges, and need it most. She also discusses how you can best approach the thoughts that urge you to give in to old behaviors. Great advice for anyone who wants to break bad habits!

Dr. Amy Johnson is a master life coach who works with clients worldwide through coaching programs, workshops, and retreats. She is author of The Little Book of Big Change and has devoted a large portion of her coaching practice to helping people end unwanted habits.  Dr. Johnson has been a regularly featured expert on The Steve Harvey Show and www.oprah.com, as well as in The Wall Street Journal and Self magazine. Visit Dr. Johnson’s website here.

Check our our recent interview with Dr. Johnson:  Surprisingly Simple Techniques to Overcome Bad Habits: A Conversation with Dr. Amy Johnson

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Each time you feel deeply peaceful, your personal thinking is taking a relative break. Each time you’re in the throes of anxiety, urges or general uneasiness, your thinking has revved back up. This audiobook aims to point you back toward the wisdom that is already within you, so that you can use it as a guide.

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Are you curious about the science behind anxiety, panic, and worry? Would you like to experience freedom from anxiety? If so, you’ll appreciate today’s episode which focuses on cognitive restructuring. We’re offering an excerpt from Dr. Catherine Pittman and Elizabeth Karle’s audiobook Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry.

Rewire Your Anxious Brain is a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety, based in cutting-edge neuroscience. You’ll learn how anxiety is created in the brain, as well as the techniques you need to overcome it. Your brain is a powerful tool, and the more you work to change the way you respond to fear, the more resilient you will become. Dr. Pittman and Ms. Karle make present specific examples of how to manage fear by tapping into twp pathways in the brain.The practical and proven-effective techniques in this audiobook will literally “rewire” the brain—addressing the root of your fears.

Our episode today explains the science behind cognitive restructuring—the foundation of rewiring your anxious brain. Thought patterns that are illogical or unhealthy can exacerbate anxiety or stress. Cognitive therapists focus on identifying and changing thoughts that are self-defeating or dysfunctional—especially thoughts that lead to increased levels of anxiety or depression. This approach is known as cognitive restructuring. You can rewire your anxious brain and establish new patterns of responding in the brain. These patterns become stable and lasting, leading to freedom from anxiety.

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What would you do to break your addiction once and for all? In our search for a cure, however, it’s all too easy to avoid investigating the causes of our addictions. What is it that we can’t face? Our addictions, although they may be painful and destructive, can also be insightful windows into our psyches. We can’t cure something we don’t entirely understand. This episode gives us a spiritual view of addiction.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Robert Rabbin’s audiobook The Sacred Hub: Living in the Shimmering Light of Your True Self. This audiobook is an inspiring collection of essays on meditation, self-inquiry, awareness, freedom, and more. It’s an uplifting guide through the process of questioning, reframing, and deepening awareness that will help you discover your own infinite nature–one of enduring happiness and peace.

In this episode, Robert Rabbin explores the issue of addiction. He begins by breaking down the components of addiction and addresses our burning desire to break them. He asks us to look more closely. Instead of thinking of our addictions as problems waiting to be solved, he suggests that not only do we have more addictions that we may even realize, but that there is a spiritual view of addiction—addictive behavior is a sign of yearning for true freedom.

Robert Rabbin began his professional journey in 1985, after spending 10 years living and working with meditation master Swami Muktananda. He developed an international reputation as a radically brilliant speaker and public speaking guru, as well as a distinguished self-awareness facilitator, leadership adviser, and personal mentor. He authored eight books and more than 250 articles on authentic living and public speaking, leadership, self-inquiry, spiritual activism, and meditation.

In January 2012, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and told he had a few months to live. However, in keeping with his contrarian nature, he thrived well past the predicted use-by date. He passed away in December 2017.

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The Sacred Hub is an inquiry into what it means to be both fully human and fully divine. Robert Rabbin invites readers to consider living a consciously awakened life with both personal integrity and spiritual awareness. This timely book is very practical, completely accessible and very compelling. Highly recommended!”

author, "Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of Who You Are"

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How often do you grab a meal and eat it in the car, or eat while standing over the sink, thinking about the thousand other things you need to do? When was the last time you truly savored a meal? Today we’re sharing the benefits of eating mindfully with an excerpt from psychologist Susan Albers’ audiobook Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food.

Eating Mindfully is the breakthrough audiobook from Dr. Albers that has helped thousands of people change the way they approach mealtimes. You’ll realize how damaging it is to be mindless about your food, and appreciate Dr. Albers’ mindfulness-based psychological practices to help you take charge of cravings so that you can eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full.

Dr. Albers shares the characteristics and the many benefits of eating mindfully. Learn about the Buddha’s insights into mindful eating, and discover the joy of eating―and living―mindfully in your own day-to-day life.

Susan Albers, Psy.D., is a New York Times Bestselling author and licensed clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic specializing in eating issues, weight loss, body image concerns, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of Denver, completed an internship at the University of Notre Dame and was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. Her work has been quoted in O, The Oprah Magazine, Family Circle, Self, and The Wall Street Journal, and she conducts mindful eating workshops internationally. She was a guest expert on the Today Show and Dr. Oz TV Show.

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In this audiobook, you will learn how mindlessness corrupts the way you eat a meal and how it manifests in a variety of eating problems. You will gain insight into why mindfulness, which is, of course, the opposite of mindlessness, can provide you with valu- able skills to control the way you eat.

Author of the Audiobook, "Eating Mindfully"

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When you first meet someone special, it’s common to feel overwhelmed by your desire for them. It’s possible to fantasize a whole life with someone before we’ve ever even spoken to them! Often, our response to this attraction is, “This is the one!” But the problem with this type of desire is the possibility of being caught up in romantic fantasies.

According to Robert Rabbin, this kind of desire actually runs counter to love. Love makes no demands on a person, it only opens the door and invites them to come inside.

Robert Rabbin is the author of the audiobook The Sacred Hub: Living in the Shimmering Light of Your True Self. This audiobook is an inspiring collection of essays on meditation, self-inquiry, awareness, freedom, and more. It’s an uplifting guide through the process of questioning, reframing, and deepening awareness that will help you discover your own infinite nature–one of enduring happiness and peace.

In this excerpt, Robert Rabbin discusses the beginning of a romantic relationship. When you begin to care for someone you might see them as the missing piece that will complete your own life. Robert points out that if we hope that another person will fill us with what we don’t already have, we are sowing the seeds of romantic fantasies that lead to attachment and dependency. He offers some enlightening and inspiring thoughts on the nature of true love.

Robert Rabbin began his professional journey in 1985, after spending 10 years living and working with meditation master Swami Muktananda. He developed an international reputation as a radically brilliant speaker and public speaking guru, as well as a distinguished self-awareness facilitator, leadership adviser, and personal mentor. He authored eight books and more than 250 articles on authentic living and public speaking, leadership, self-inquiry, spiritual activism, and meditation.

In January 2012, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and told he had a few months to live. However, in keeping with his contrarian nature, he thrived well past the predicted use-by date. He passed away in December 2017.

Listen to our recent interivew with Robert Rabbin: Inner Wisdom and Clarity: A Conversation with Robert Rabbin

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The Sacred Hub is an inquiry into what it means to be both fully human and fully divine. Robert Rabbin invites readers to consider living a consciously awakened life with both personal integrity and spiritual awareness. This timely book is very practical, completely accessible and very compelling. Highly recommended!”

author, "Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of Who You Are"

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When you’re in the midst of struggling with an urge, there are some things you can do to decrease your discomfort and minimize the amount of self-control you need. Clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Taitz offers a four step process to learn how to handle urges, followed by an exercise to help you practice “urge surfing,” and learn how to avoid giving in!

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook End Emotional Eating: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions and Develop a Healthy Relationship to Food. Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Taitz, this audiobook teaches scientifically supported skills that will teach you how to manage emotions and urges gracefully, and cope with distress skillfully. While this audiobook is intended for those who eat to help manage emotions, it offers practical techniques for anyone who wants to more skillfully manage emotions.

In this excerpt, Dr. Taitz offers practical and effective techniques for learning how to handle urges.

Jennifer L. Taitz, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the dialectical behavior therapy program at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York, NY. She is a certified diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and is a founding board member of the New York City Association for Contextual Behavior Science. Her expertise lies in emphasizing simultaneous acceptance and change and providing tangible tools to help people get “unstuck” so they are better able to regulate their emotions.

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If you struggle to live fully and joyously because of an unhealthy relationship with eating, my hope is that this audiobook will offer you new freedom. Eating is a part of life, and this book is about living in a way that is meaningful and expansive. Unlike hundreds of other books, it will not tell you what, when, how, or how much to eat. Instead, you will practice living in full contact with the present moment, learning from your feelings, coping with distress skillfully, and developing self-compassion.

Author of Audiobook, "End Emotional Eating"

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Sometimes emotions can have unwanted consequences, especially when they cause us fear or anxiety. Today, psychologist Dr. David Klemanski tells us about two fields of psychological research—emotion regulation and mindfulness. Together they can provide a powerful framework for helping people gain mastery over anxiety.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt fromt the audiobook Don’t Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life: Using the Science of Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness to Overcome Fear and Worry, written by psychologist Dr. David Klemanski and Joshua Curtiss. This audiobook is a groundbreaking, step-by-step guide for managing the thoughts and feelings that cause anxiety, worry, fear, and panic. Using easy, clinically proven mindfulness practices, you’ll learn to manage your emotions and lessen your anxiety.

In this excerpt, Dr. Klemanski and Joshua Curtis explain emotion regulation and mindfulness, and how, together, they can help you outsmart your anxiety.

Listen to our interviews with Dr. Klemanski in these podcast episodes:

David H. Klemanski, PsyD, MPH, is a psychologist and professor at New York University where he teaches, researches, and co-directs the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing. He specializes in the classification and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, and his research is focused on mindfulness and emotion regulation in anxiety and depression.

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If you truly want to outsmart your anxiety, you will find this audiobook valuable. We will teach you how and when to pay attention to your anxiety, how to react with less intensity to your anxious emotions, and what to do when you feel as if you are overwhelmed by anxiety.

authors of "Don't Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life"

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