Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destruc tive Behavior

The bestselling author of Undoing Depression offers a brain-based guide to permanently ending bad habits Richard OConnors bestselling book Undoing Depression has become a touchstone in the field, helping thousands of therapists and patients overcome depressive patterns. In Rewire, OConnor expands those ideas, showing how we actually have two brainsa conscious deliberate self and an automatic self that makes most of our decisionsand how we can train the latter to ignore distractions, withstand temptations, and interrupt reflexive, self-sabotaging responses. Rewire gives readers a roadmap to overcoming the most common self-destructive habits, including procrastination, excessive worrying, internet addiction, overeating, risk-taking, and self-medication, among others. By learning valuable skills and habitsincluding mindfulness, self-control, confronting fear, and freeing yourself from mindless guiltwe can open ourselves to vastly more successful, productive, and happy lives.