Book contents
- Toxic Stress
- Reviews
- TOXIC STRESS
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: Your Body’s Hidden Symphony
- Part I The Problem
- Part II The System
- Part III Measuring Toxic Stress
- Part IV Treatment
- 11 Boot Camps for Our Stress Response Systems
- 12 Yes, You Can Retrain the Brain
- 13 Talking about Stress with Your Doctor
- Part V Our Next Frontier
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author
12 - Yes, You Can Retrain the Brain
from Part IV - Treatment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2024
Book contents
- Toxic Stress
- Reviews
- TOXIC STRESS
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: Your Body’s Hidden Symphony
- Part I The Problem
- Part II The System
- Part III Measuring Toxic Stress
- Part IV Treatment
- 11 Boot Camps for Our Stress Response Systems
- 12 Yes, You Can Retrain the Brain
- 13 Talking about Stress with Your Doctor
- Part V Our Next Frontier
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author
Summary
We follow Teresa Langford in her efforts to navigate the treatment options she faced with her multiple illnesses. Through barriers and breakthroughs she found a way to retrain her stress response system and achieve a sense of resilience for a renewed life as a partner and parent and teacher. This chapter discusses the range of approaches that have shown promise for improving the treatment of stress-related conditions, closing with some lessons learned about the challenges of retraining our dysregulated stress response systems.
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- Toxic StressHow Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It, pp. 243 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024