Description: "In the United States alone, one in five adults experiences chronic pain. For too long, when a doctor couldn't find the source of frequent pain, the patient was dismissively told, 'It's all in your head.' Today, we know that our somatic responses to trauma, anxiety, and depression create real suffering, and that physical pain can lead to trauma, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Daniel Amen calls this 'the doom loop'--the dance between physical and emotional pain. These doom loops interfere with our ability to live our lives. But we can shift the doom loop into a healing loop, and in this ... book, he shows us how"--
Brief description:
The Washington Post called Daniel Amen, MD, the most popular psychiatrist in America. He is a former infantry medic, psychiatrist, award-winning researcher, and founder of Amen Clinics with eleven locations nationwide. Amen Clinics has the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, totaling nearly 300,000 scans on patients from 155 countries. He has written twenty national bestselling books, translated into forty-six languages, including Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, The End of Mental Illness, and Healing ADD. Dr. Amen's mission is to reshape psychiatry into a brain health specialty, using brain imaging tools and natural ways to heal the brain.
Review Quotes:
"Pain is often the language our brain uses to teach us something deeper. Dr. Amen's Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain shows you how to listen, heal, and finally break free from the cycle of suffering." - Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 8 Rules of Love and host of the On Purpose podcast
"Dr. Daniel Amen has been a guiding voice for millions. Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain offers a groundbreaking roadmap to healing not just physical pain, but also the emotional suffering that often hides beneath it. This book will empower millions who have been suffering for far too long." - Steven Bartlett, entrepreneur;speaker;bestselling author;and host of Diary of a CEO, the UK's #1 podcast
"When you're in pain, it's as if you're viewing life through a glass darkly. It can rob you of your joy, your optimism, and even your hope. But what if we finally understood what pain really means and its true origin in our brains and bodies? What if we had a science-backed roadmap to healing not just physical pain, but also the emotional suffering that often hides beneath it? That's what you have with Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain. Everyone needs to read this book!" - Shawn Stevenson, bestselling author of Eat Smarter and Sleep Smarter