Break the endless cycle of anxiety, panic, and worry
Skills to Rewire Your Anxious Brain is an immersive online course led by psychologist and anxiety expert Catherine M. Pittman, PhD.
Inside, you’ll learn to use the power of neuroscience and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to calm and retrain the brain pathways responsible for anxiety, freeing you to live the life you want for yourself.
Join now and create a new, calmer lifestyle driven by your goals and dreams, not your anxiety.
This transformational journey was designed to help you:
- Truly understand anxiety
- Build a new, calmer lifestyle
- Live the life you desire
How you’ll get there:
- Engaging video lessons provide an immersive learning experience
- Downloadable written exercises help you personalize lessons and make real change happen
- Lifetime access
Pittman’s powerful approach is based on neuroscience-informed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and also integrates:
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Mindfulness meditation
- Physiological interventions
Understanding Anxiety
If you’re struggling with anxiety, you know that it can be distressing, overwhelming, and even debilitating.
As you’re simply trying to go about your day, you can find yourself stuck in an endless cycle of worry or become paralyzed by feelings of fear, panic, or a sense of impending doom.
What’s more, you might experience physical symptoms such as a racing heart, tightness in your chest, sweating, shaking, and more.
It can literally be a whole-body experience.
And if you don’t understand what’s going on, it would be only natural to wonder “Why is this happening to me?”
As it turns out, learning the answer to that question is an important first step to getting anxiety out of your way so you can get back to living your life.
The reason you experience anxiety has everything to do with your nervous system’s defense response, also known as the fight, flight, or freeze response.
The defense response evolved to alert our ancestors to life-or-death threats such as predators and prepare them to run away or fight to survive another day.
And because the people with a strong defense response were the ones to survive, they passed on this fear-producing nervous system to most humans alive today.
What this means is that anxiety is not your fault. It’s a part of being human.
The problem is that in modern life, this response gets mistakenly triggered when we are not in immediate danger, such as when we’re stuck in traffic, reading social media, or preparing for an exam.
The result is the emotions, thoughts, and physical symptoms we know as anxiety.
Over time, anxiety can interfere with our ability to think about things, set goals for the future, and lead the life we want for ourselves.
By understanding why you have anxiety and how it is produced by the brain, you can form a solid foundation for building a calmer life where you are in control, not your anxiety.
Creating a Purposeful Life
Individuals suffering from anxiety use a variety of words to describe the symptoms they experience.
They may refer to overwhelming stress and pressure, endless worries and racing thoughts, or a sense of fear, panic, or anger.
But no matter which of these you experience, they can all get in the way of living life to the fullest.
And although they sound somewhat different, neuroscience has revealed two pathways in the brain that drive all these symptoms—the amygdala and cortex pathways.
This is great news because it has allowed for the development of specific strategies to target each one.
When you understand these pathways, you’ll no longer have to guess what will work for you.
You’ll be empowered to choose the most effective strategies for your symptoms and achieve a calmer life no longer blocked by anxiety.
As you embark on this journey to take back your life from anxiety, it’s important to ask yourself a few key questions:
What has your anxiety stopped you from doing?
What goals has it prevented you from reaching?
How do you want your life to change?
Maybe it’s stopped you from asking for that raise. Maybe it’s kept you from pursuing that degree. Or maybe it’s held you back from fulfilling relationships.
Whatever the answers are for you, let them be a guiding light as you create a new, calmer lifestyle that frees you to pursue your goals and dreams.
Introducing...
Skills to Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M. Pittman
Skills to Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M. Pittman is a new, immersive online course that shows you how to build a calmer lifestyle step by step.
Pittman’s approach is based on neuroscience-informed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and also integrates dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness meditation, and physiological interventions.
Inside the course, you’ll start by learning about the symptoms of anxiety that are holding you back and setting the goals you want to achieve once anxiety is no longer in your way.
Then you’ll learn about your nervous system’s defense response—including how it was vital to keeping humans safe in prehistoric times but often creates unnecessary anxiety in modern life.
Next, you’ll explore key structures and pathways in the brain that are vital to understanding and addressing your anxiety, including the amygdala and cortex pathways responsible for all types of anxiety.
With that firm foundation, you’ll discover life-changing, personalized strategies that target the two pathways at the core of your anxiety and help you create a life no longer blocked by anxiety.
As you progress through the course, you’ll learn simple, short-term techniques that can reduce anxiety within minutes and powerful long-term habits you can use to build and maintain your new, calmer lifestyle.
With her decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, professor, and anxiety expert, Pittman explains everything using easy-to-understand language and insightful stories, so you’ll have no problem grasping key concepts and putting them into action.
As you progress through 6 weekly modules, you’ll learn to:
- Identify what’s blocking you and set goals
- Understand the anxiety pathways
- Tame the amygdala pathway
- Get past your triggers using exposure
- Retrain the cortex pathway
- Break the cycle of worry
Downloadable weekly workbooks include calendars, exercises, surveys, summaries, and diagrams to ensure you have everything you need to plan, track, and implement the skills and strategies you’ll use to transform your life.
When you complete the course, you’ll have a personalized program you can use to help keep anxiety out of your way for a lifetime.
Transform your life with insights and skills that empower you to:
- Reduce anxiety quickly in the moment
- Build habits that support a calmer lifestyle long term
- Become more hopeful and optimistic
- Develop a sense of control over your life
- Pursue your goals and dreams
Enroll in
Skills to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
by Catherine M. Pittman
What’s included in the course:
- Engaging video lessons for an immersive learning experience (over 3.5 hours and 32 video lessons in all)
- Comprehensive weekly workbooks with calendars, exercises, activities, and more (downloadable)
- Progressive muscle relaxation and mindfulness audio exercise (downloadable)
- Easy-to-use course interface
- Lifetime access
- Satisfaction guarantee
- Special Bonus: Free e-book (PDF) excerpt from 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
$249 (USD)
From the Publisher
Catherine M. Pittman’s passion for treating anxiety was sparked during her graduate training when she was assigned to a professor researching fear conditioning in rats.
Given that she was looking forward to the opportunity to be trained to help people, this assignment was initially a great disappointment.
But the insights she gained allowed her to understand the role of the amygdala in fear, a foundational part of her powerful approach, which emphasizes the importance of addressing both the amygdala and cortex pathways as a means of achieving the best possible outcomes for those struggling with anxiety.
In this course, Pittman takes a neuroscience-informed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach, while also drawing on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness meditation, and physiological interventions.
Treatments from these modalities used throughout the course include psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, thought stopping and replacement, cognitive reappraisal, goal setting, self-regulation, mindfulness training, exposure, distress tolerance, acceptance, systematic desensitization, relaxation training, progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, exercise, and interventions to improve sleep.
Participants will emerge with a complete, personalized program to help them effectively manage anxiety and live a life driven by their goals and dreams.
In addition, mental health professionals taking this course will observe an evidence-based approach to anxiety that:
- Crucially addresses both the amygdala and cortex pathways
- Demonstrates how to communicate the neuroscience of anxiety in a clear, easy-to-understand way that increases clients’ motivation to participate in therapy and homework exercises
- Provides interventions effective for anxiety-related disorders including PTSD and OCD, in addition to anxiety disorders
This course is an empowering and structured guide offering both vital understanding and actionable skills and strategies for the effective management of anxiety.
With warm regards,
Publisher and President
New Harbinger Publications
Your Path to Empowerment
Each of the following weekly modules includes a comprehensive workbook to guide you as you create your new, calmer lifestyle.
(Practitioners will find these workbooks beneficial as between-session resources for clients.)
Week 1: Start Taking Back Control
- How Do You Want to Change?
- What Blocks You?
- Goal Setting
- Stress and the Brain
- Breathing Techniques
- Build New Habits
Week 2: The Pathways to Anxiety
- Stay Focused on Goals
- Understand Your Brain
- Thrive/Survive
- Fear/Danger
- Anxiety Symptoms
- Defense Response Recap
- Mindfulness Techniques
Week 3: Tame the Amygdala
- A New Perspective
- Muscle Relaxation Techniques
- Aerobic Exercise
- Sleep
- A Calming Lifestyle
Week 4: Get Past Your Triggers
- How Triggers Develop
- Teach the Amygdala
- The Dangers of Avoidance
- Where to Start
- Exposure Therapy
- Tips for Exposure
Week 5: The Role of the Cortex
- Anxiety-Igniting Thoughts
- Can You Trust the Cortex?
- Cognitive Therapy
- Replacing Thoughts
- The Anxiety Channel
Week 6: Move On from Worry
- The Worry Channel
- Distraction Techniques
- Cortex Recap
- Don’t Let Anxiety Stop You
- Serenity, Courage, Wisdom
- A Goal-Driven Life
Bonus: Free e-book (PDF) excerpt
This downloadable excerpt from 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain includes more than 30 pages of content with 11 amygdala-calming exercises you can use as you build a new lifestyle no longer blocked by anxiety.
Pursuing Your Goals, Hopes, and Dreams
A Message from Catherine M. Pittman, PhD
Struggling with anxiety, stress, worry, panic, or fear can often become overwhelming and even debilitating.
And when it does, it blocks you from all the things that matter most in life.
But there’s something I want you to know:
It’s not your fault—because anxiety is a normal part of the human condition.
It was critical for alerting our ancestors to danger, keeping them safe, and allowing us to be here today.
The problem is that anxiety is no longer a good fit for the way we live in the 21st century.
It helps us survive, but it doesn’t help us thrive.
The good news is that we know what to do about it!
Neuroscience has identified two brain pathways—the amygdala and cortex pathways—that are responsible for anxiety.
This has allowed us to develop effective strategies that target and calm these pathways and get anxiety out of the way.
In my new course, I explain the roles that these pathways play in anxiety using easy-to-understand language and everyday examples.
Then I teach proven skills to calm each pathway in both the short term and long term.
When you finish the course, you'll come away with a complete program you can use to manage your anxiety and get back to living the life you desire.
I hope you’ll join me and learn the powerful insights, skills, and strategies you need to break the endless cycle of worry, panic, and fear, and get back to pursuing all your goals, hopes, and dreams.
Enroll in
Skills to Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M. Pittman
What’s included in the course:
- Engaging video lessons for an immersive learning experience (over 3.5 hours and 32 video lessons in all)
- Comprehensive weekly workbooks with calendars, exercises, activities, and more (downloadable)
- Progressive muscle relaxation and mindfulness audio exercise (downloadable)
- Easy-to-use course interface
- Lifetime access
- Satisfaction guarantee
- Special Bonus: Free e-book (PDF) excerpt from 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
$249 (USD)
Meet Your Guide, Catherine M. Pittman, PhD
Catherine M. Pittman, PhD, is the author or lead author of multiple books on the treatment of anxiety disorders, including Rewire Your Anxious Brain, Rewire Your OCD Brain, Taming Your Amygdala, and 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain. A licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders and brain injuries for over 30 years, she is also a professor of psychology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. She was honored in 2019 by Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana with a service award for her work in treating brain injury. Pittman practices neuroscience-informed CBT and has conducted research in both fear conditioning and neuropsychology, preparing her well to explain the neuroscience of anxiety and fear.
Answers to Your Questions
Catherine M. Pittman talks about the brain and nervous system in a down-to-earth way that people “get.” She focuses on just the basics that you need to know, and she uses stories and diagrams to make it understandable and relevant to your life. Not all anxiety is the same, and it can arise in different pathways in the brain that require different techniques. Once you understand the basics of what’s happening in your brain during anxiety, you’ll be able to target it much more accurately with strategies that will work to curb your symptoms and make you less prone to anxiety in the future.
Why Should You Join This Course?
This course will be a great fit if you want to:
- Understand anxiety better so you can take control
- Learn fast-acting techniques to curb anxiety when it strikes
- Break the endless cycle of worry
- Retrain your brain for a calmer lifestyle
- Be free to live your life—no longer blocked by anxiety
This course is also a great fit for mental health professionals who want to:
- Communicate neuroscience concepts to clients with simple language and examples
- Motivate clients to engage in therapy and complete between session practice
- Learn a neuroscience-informed CBT approach to treating anxiety
- Address both brain pathways critical to anxiety treatment
- Empower clients to get anxiety out of their way and live a goal-driven life
Start Building Your Calm, Goal-Driven Lifestyle Today
Enroll in
Skills to Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M. Pittman
What’s included in the course:
Engaging video lessons for an immersive learning experience (over 3.5 hours and 32 video lessons in all)
- Comprehensive weekly workbooks with calendars, exercises, activities, and more (downloadable)
- Progressive muscle relaxation and mindfulness audio exercise (downloadable)
- Easy-to-use course interface
- Lifetime access
- Satisfaction guarantee
- Special Bonus: Free e-book (PDF) excerpt from 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
$249 (USD)