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Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
Learning to Breathe My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life Author:Priscilla Warner Priscilla Warner, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Faith Club, embarks on a journey to find inner peace. After battling anxiety for forty years, she begins meditating every day, hoping to change her brain, body, and life as she samples other spiritual and alternative health practices, some serious and some refreshingly unconventiona... more »l. Priscilla Warner has suffered debilitating panic attacks almost all her life, and she has had enough. She wants serenity now, and she wants to change her brain the way the much-publicized Tibetan monks do?through meditation. So she stashes away her Klonopin and sets out on a wide-ranging search for peace, documenting her progress with brain scans and the astute observations of friends, shrinks, and wise teachers she meets. Featuring quasi-hallucinogenic Ayurvedic oil treatments, mystical Kabbalah lessons, compassionate Buddhist mentors, frequent doses of dark chocolate, and a brilliant neuroscientist who teaches her about her sometimes shaky brain, Learning to Breathe chronicles Warner?s mission to cure her anxiety disorder by rerouting the biological pathways that have caused her to panic?while also exploring her demons and her colorful family history. Written with Warner?s lovely wit and humor, Learning to Breathe is a serious attempt to heal her condition and offers inspiring insights on anxiety, peace, and available treatments along the way.« less