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Learning to Breathe : My Year-long Quest to Bring Calm to My Life by Warner, Priscilla, 1953- is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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Priscilla Warner has had a great 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. Shes tried self-medicatingin high school, with a hidden flask of vodkaand later, with prescription medicationsdaily doses of Klonopin with a dark-chocolate chaser. After forty years of hyperventilating, and an overwhelming panic attack thats the ultimate wake-up call, Warners 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. Warner tries spiritual chanting, meditative painting, immersion in a Jewish ritual bath, and quasi-hallucinogenic Ayurvedic oil treatments. She encounters mystical rabbis who teach her Kabbalistic lessons, attends silent retre

Who reads Learning to Breathe : My Year-long Quest to Bring Calm to My Life?

Author

Warner, Priscilla, 1953-

Publisher

Atria Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439181072

Category

self-help

Subjects

Medical, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (576 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14