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    This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps
    This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps
    This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps
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    This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps

    By Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

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    Anxiety .... it's the worst. Choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking, brain cutting out, bad decisions... You're a human being, so you know exactly what's being said here. Dr. Faith lays it all out in her five-minute therapy series: what anxiety IS (did you know that people wrote about it more in the 1800s than now?), what it's good for (that's right, it's actually a necessary response that helps to keep us alive in bad situations), how to know when it's gone overboard, and practical tips on how to deal with anxiety when it gets bad. This book is a lifesaver for panic attacks, breaking out of flight-or-fight-or-freeze responses, and for chronic anxiety. It's also good for folks who aren't burdened by anxiety daily but want to cope better with those tough life situations that affect us all. Read this and breathe!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMicrocosm Publishing
    Release dateMar 13, 2018
    ISBN9781621067030
    This Is Your Brain on Anxiety: What Happens and What Helps
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    Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

    Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She’s a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the author of the book Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.

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      This Is Your Brain on Anxiety - Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

      THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON ANXIETY

      What Happens and What Helps

      Part of the 5 Minute Therapy Series

      © Dr. Faith Harper, 2016, 2018

      This edition © Microcosm Publishing, 2018

      First edition, first published 2016

      Second edition, first published March 14, 2018

      ISBN 978-1-62106-421-3

      This is Microcosm #205

      Cover illustration by Meggyn Pommerleau

      Distributed by PGW and Turnaround in the UK

      For a catalog, write or visit:

      Microcosm Publishing

      2752 N Williams Ave.

      Portland, OR 97227

      www.microcosmpublishing.com

      If you bought this on Amazon, that sucks because you could have gotten it cheaper and supported a small, independent publisher at MicrocosmPublishing.com

      Microcosm Publishing is Portland’s most diversified publishing house and distributor with a focus on the colorful, authentic, and empowering. Our books and zines have put your power in your hands since 1996, equipping readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them. Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and bookettes about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice. What was once a distro and record label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom and has become among the oldest independent publishing houses in Portland, OR. We are a politically moderate, centrist publisher in a world that has inched to the right for the past 80 years.

      Global labor conditions are bad, and our roots in industrial Cleveland in the 70s and 80s made us appreciate the need to treat workers right. Therefore, our books are MADE IN THE USA and printed on post-consumer paper.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Harper, Faith G., author.

      Title: This is your brain on anxiety : what happens and what helps / Faith G.

      Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN.

      Description: Portland, OR : Microcosm Publishing, 2018. | Originally

      published: 2016.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017014396 (print) | LCCN 2017025891 (ebook) | ISBN

      9781621065814 (ebook) | ISBN 9781621064213 (pbk.)

      Subjects: LCSH: Anxiety disorders. | Anxiety disorders--Treatment.

      Classification: LCC RC531 (ebook) | LCC RC531 .H37 2018 (print) | DDC

      616.85/22--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014396

      Contents

      What is Anxiety?

      What Anxiety Feels Like

      Do I Have Anxiety or Am I Just Anxious Sometimes?

      Dealing with Anxiety

      More Shit that Helps

      Living with Anxiety

      Being a Friend to Someone with Anxiety

      Conclusion

      A Couple of the Books I Shouted-Out Herein

      Great Movies About Anxiety

      Introduction

      When you struggle with anxiety, the most empowering thing in the world is realizing that you aren’t weak, broken, or batshit crazy.

      I’m not just saying that to placate you. It’s scientifically true. Anxiety makes perfect sense because it’s how our brains

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