Living with Anxiety: A Podcast Book Review of Dr. Catherine M. Pittman’s Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

This podcast reviews the book Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry co-authored by psychologist Dr. Catherine M. Pittman. Abstract: This book review will outline and analyze the core topics Dr. Pittman discusses, including the neuroscience behind anxiety production and where anxiety originates, to ultimately answer how rewiring the brain can help to prevent anxiety and its distressing effects. Discussing anxiety in the student experience, this analysis is situated locally and examines how resources at the University of Windsor implement anxiety prevention and rewiring techniques into services offered for students living with anxiety. Areas for improving the resources and support available for students living with the effects of an anxious brain will also be discussed. This book review will integrate into its analysis the United Nation's SDG 3, Good Health and Wellbeing, which aims to "ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages" (United Nations). Anxiety is a fear response that can have debilitating, long-term effects on individuals; thus, to promote good health and wellbeing in one's life, rewiring the parts of the brain that overproduce anxiety is essential.