The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life

The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life

by Gregory Scott Brown M.D.
The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life

The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life

by Gregory Scott Brown M.D.

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Overview

Self-care is a powerful, evidence-based medicine for the mind.

Mental health is the driving force behind every decision we make—how we live, work, and love. Many of us suffer from depression and anxiety, which impede our choices and quality of life, and despite the proliferation of prescription drugs, the numbers are growing across the globe. But there is another, proven way to achieve mental wellness, beyond antidepressants and talk therapy. Practicing psychiatrist Gregory Scott Brown believes that mental health begins with actionable self-care.

The Self-Healing Mind is a holistic approach to emotional and psychological healing that focuses on how evidence-based self-care strategies can be used to improve and sustain mental health. Dr. Brown challenges the current state of mental health care and the messaging around it, showing us how to move past outdated notions of “broken” brains and chemical imbalances. While he agrees that prescription drugs and talk therapy in many cases are important for healing, his personal and professional experience has taught him that lifestyle interventions are also key to sustainable mental wellness.

Dr. Brown’s clinical philosophy supports an integrative approach that combines conventional treatments (medication and psychotherapy) with what he calls the Five Pillars of Self-Care: breathing mindfully, sleep, spirituality, nutrition, and movement. These purposeful lifestyle practices, backed by science and proven in his clinical practice, can be adopted by everyone. Dr. Brown’s advice and insight put the power of healing back in your control.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780063094475
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 06/07/2022
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 233,449
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Gregory Scott Brown, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, mental health writer, and affiliate faculty member at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His commentary has been featured in the New York Times, in the Huffington Post, in Well+Good, on Medscape, and on the Today show. He is an advisory board member for Men’s Health, where he regularly contributes content for mental health stories. He resides in the Houston area with his wife.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I A Change in Perspective

Chapter 1 Redefining Mental Health 15

Chapter 2 Your Beautiful Mind 31

Chapter 3 Healing beyond Medicine 49

Chapter 4 Survival of the Fittest 71

Chapter 5 Giving Up on Death 93

Part II The Five Pillars of Self-Care

Chapter 6 Bringing Attention to Breath 119

Chapter 7 The Sleep Solution 147

Chapter 8 Tapping into Your Spiritual Self 169

Chapter 9 The Medicine on Your Plate 193

Chapter 10 Moving Your Body for Your Mind 221

Conclusion: Embodying the Five Pillars of Self-Care 243

Acknowledgments 247

Notes 251

Index 273

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