Sandra Scheinbaum

Stop Panic Attacks in 10 Easy Steps

Sandra Scheinbaum

This step-by-step guide to preventing panic attacks provides simple strategies for stopping a panic attack on the spot and overcoming them in the long-term. Sharing her personal and professional experience of panic and anxiety disorders, clinical psychologist Sandra Scheinbaum presents tried-and-tested methods, including new cutting-edge approaches based on functional medicine. You will learn how to: – Understand what panic attacks are and recognise symptoms – Trust your body's own calming methods to control panic without the need for medication – Find your abdominal breath and relaxed breathing patterns – Let go of clenching and muscle tension through relaxation exercises and postural awareness – Use positive mental imagery and avoid irrational thinking – Find deep belly laughter, even in the midst of a panic episode – Eat well with calming foods and advice on supplements. The ten easy steps in this book will help readers to control their fight or flight response and overcome panic attacks naturally and permanently.

How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks

Sandra Scheinbaum

How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks shows how it is possible to prevent and abort a panic attack through lifestyle change and mind-body relaxation. Presenting an effective approach rooted in the philosophy of functional medicine, this book proposes using calming breathing techniques as the foundation to controlling the anxiety that causes panic. Breathing is then combined with positive imagery, rational thinking, body awareness, nutrition and yoga to provide further support for sparking the real, positive change in clients that will guide them along the road to recovery. The practical tools, step-by-step exercises and motivational scripts within this book will provide an incomparable resource for mental health professionals, psychologists, counselors, and coaches.