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Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

by Priscilla Warner
$14.90
Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

Personal journey from panic to peace.

If you've ever felt like your worries are taking over, Priscilla Warner's memoir might resonate with you. Warner narrates her earnest quest to transform anxiety into serenity, imbuing her story with humor and self-reflection that can inspire others to seek their own path to calm. It's a relatable and hopeful narrative offering insights into the universal quest for inner peace.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

by Priscilla Warner
$14.90
ISBN: 9781439181089
Authors: Priscilla Warner
Publisher: Atria
Date of Publication: 2012-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Religion, Biographies & Memoirs, Personal Development
Related Topics: Spirituality, Buddhism, Mental Health, Memoir, Psychology, Inspirational, Personal Development, Mental Health
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 775 readers)

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By the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller, The Faith Club, Learning to Breathe was launched on the Today show to brilliant reviews. Priscilla Warner has had a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in high school, with a hidden flask of vodka—and later, with prescription medications—daily doses of Klonopin with a dark chocolate chaser. After forty years of hyperventilating, and an overwhelming panic attack that’s the ultimate wake-up call, Warner’s mantra becomes “Neurotic, Heal Thyself.” A spirited New Yorker, she sets out to find her inner Tibetan monk by meditating every day, aiming to rewire her brain and her body and mend her frayed nerves. On this winding path from panic to peace, with its hairpin emotional curves and breathtaking drops, she also delves into a wide range of spiritual and alternative health practices, some serious, and some . . . not so much. Written with lively wit and humor, Learning to Breathe is a serious attempt to heal from a painful condition. It’s also a life raft of compassion and hope for people similarly adrift or secretly fearful, as well as an
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Personal journey from panic to peace.

If you've ever felt like your worries are taking over, Priscilla Warner's memoir might resonate with you. Warner narrates her earnest quest to transform anxiety into serenity, imbuing her story with humor and self-reflection that can inspire others to seek their own path to calm. It's a relatable and hopeful narrative offering insights into the universal quest for inner peace.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.