Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior

The bestselling author of Undoing Depression offers a brain-based guide to permanently ending bad habits

Richard O’Connor’s bestselling book Undoing Depression has become a touchstone in the field, helping thousands of therapists and patients overcome depressive patterns. In Rewire, O’Connor expands those ideas, showing how we actually have two brains–a conscious deliberate self and an automatic self that makes most of our decisions–and how we can train the latter to ignore distractions, withstand temptations, and interrupt reflexive, self-sabotaging responses. Rewire gives readers a road-map to overcoming the most common self-destructive habits, including procrastination, excessive worrying, internet addiction, overeating, risk-taking, and self-medication, among others. By learning valuable skills and habits–including mindfulness, self-control, confronting fear, and freeing yourself from mindless guilt–we can open ourselves to vastly more successful, productive, and happy lives.

Author: Richard O’Connor
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 07/21/2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780147516329
Language: English