Best Selling Books by Billie Fitzpatrick

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities. Nearing forty, Dr. Wendy Suzuki was at the pinnacle of her career. An award-winning university professor and world-renowned neuroscientist, she had tenure, her own successful research lab, prestigious awards, and international renown. That’s when to celebrate her birthday, she booked an adventure trip that forced her to wake up to a startling reality: despite her professional success, she was overweight, lonely, and tired and knew that her life had to change. Wendy started simply—by going to an exercise class. Eventually, she noticed an improvement in her memory, her energy levels, and her ability to work quickly and move from task to task easily. Not only did Wendy begin to get fit, but she also became sharper, had more energy, and her memory improved. Being a neuroscientist, she wanted to know why. What she learned transformed her body and her life. Now, it can transform yours. Wendy discovered that there is a biological connection between exercise, mindfulness, and action. With exercise, your body feels more alive and your brain actually performs better. Yes—you can make yourself smarter. In this fascinating book, Suzuki makes neuroscience easy to understand, interweaving her personal story with groundbreaking research, and offering practical, short exercises—4 minute Brain Hacks—to engage your mind and improve your memory, your ability to learn new skills, and function more efficiently. Taking us on an amazing journey inside the brain as never before, Suzuki helps us unlock the keys to neuroplasticity that can change our brains, or bodies, and, ultimately, our lives.

A realistic plan to combat diabetes, our greatest health crisis For the millions of people living with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, or who are overweight and at risk but don’t know where to start, Plan D can provide life-changing results. Plan D breaks down the basics of the science of diabetes, explains how reversing your insulin resistance (the root cause of type 2 diabetes) is the key, and offers support, humor, and the action plan you need to get results. With this medically supported plan, Sherri was able to lose forty pounds and keep it off through three key simple but effective strategies that helped her fight the big D. They are: Change the way you eat in simple ways, eating a low-glycemic diet . . . but with a few indulgences along the way Embrace exercise as part of your life, every day, and how to keep staying fit fun Rethink your emotional connection to food Sherri offers a way to lose weight and control diabetes without feeling deprived or chained to a strict, lifeless regimen. Plan D is flexible, sensible, and straightforward, and it works. If you’re ready to make a commitment to change, perhaps after years of battling excess weight and ignoring the warning signs, Sherri can show you how, with Plan D.

World-renowned neuroscientist and author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life explains how to harness the power of anxiety into unexpected gifts. We are living in the age of anxiety, a situation that often makes us feel as if we are locked into an endless cycle of stress, sleeplessness, and worry. But what if we had a way to leverage our anxiety to help us solve problems and fortify our wellbeing? What if, instead of seeing anxiety as a curse, we could recognize it for the unique gift that it is? Dr. Wendy Suzuki has discovered a paradigm-shifting truth about anxiety: yes, it is uncomfortable, but it is also essential for our survival. In fact, anxiety is a key component of our ability to live optimally. Every emotion we experience has an evolutionary purpose, and anxiety is designed to draw our attention to vulnerability. If we simply approach it as something to avoid, get rid of, or dampen, we actually miss an opportunity to improve our lives. Listening to our anxieties from a place of curiosity, and without fear, can actually guide us onto a path that leads to joy. Drawing on her own intimate struggles and based on cutting-edge research, Dr. Suzuki has developed an inspiring guidebook for managing unwarranted anxiety and turning it into a powerful asset. In the tradition of Quiet and Thinking, Fast and Slow, Good Anxiety has the power to permanently change how we understand anxiety and, more importantly, how we can use it to improve our lives for the better.

Chaz Bono''s groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male At first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher as Chastity, the cherubic little girl who appeared on her parents'' TV show. In later years, she became famous for coming out on a national stage, working with two major organizations toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights and publishing two books. And just within the past eighteen months, Chaz Bono has entered the public consciousness as the most high-profile transgender person ever. All through the hoopla surrounding his change, Chaz has insisted on maintaining his privacy. Now, in Transition, Chaz finally tells his story. Part One traces his decision to transition, beginning in his childhood-when he played on the boys'' teams and wore boys'' clothing whenever possible-and going through his painful, but ultimately joyful, coming out in his twenties, up to 2008, when, after the death of his father, drug addiction, and five years of sobriety, Chaz was finally ready to begin the process of changing his gender. In Part Two, he offers an unprecedented record in words and photographs of the actual transition, a real-time diary as he navigates uncharted waters. These chapters capture the day-to-day momentum of his life as his body changes. Throughout the book, Chaz touches on themes of identity, gender, and sexuality; parents and children; and how harboring secrets shatters the soul. It is an amazing contribution to our understanding of a much- misunderstood community. Listen to an Interview

With her Eat-Clean Diet, Tosca Reno went from being overwhelmed and overweight to modeling a bikini, but her seventy-pound weight loss and body transformation didn’t happen overnight; even Tosca needed a simple approach, a place to begin. Now she reveals her secrets so that you can begin your journey to safe weight loss and optimal health. Start now with The Start Here Diet! Tosca knows what it’s like to feel ashamed of your body: At her heaviest, she hid behind bulky clothes and rarely had her picture taken. Her blood sugar level was like a roller coaster, and her heart rate was far from normal. Tosca was so focused on taking care of her family that she neglected her own needs. Then she started making slight adjustments in her everyday life—small changes that brought about big results. In this exciting book, she shares the three easy-to-follow steps that helped her get her life back on track: Step 1: Dive Inward. Identify the emotional triggers for your overeating, the self-defeating “self-talk,” and the underlying reason why you really want to shed the pounds. Sharing her own internal dialogue—including excerpts from the journal she kept at that time—Tosca will help you overcome these internal barriers in a completely unique, accessible way. Step 2: Uncover Your Hidden Foods. Do you have a food you think you just can’t live without? Or something you eat mindlessly and often? These are your “hidden foods” and they are sabotaging your best efforts to lose weight and keep it off. Through Tosca’s transformative process, you will once and for all identify the empty-calorie foods that have added extra pounds and replace them with nutritious foods you can enjoy without weight gain. Part 3: Move a Little! The Start Here plan doesn’t require you to join a gym or do lengthy daily workouts. Simply choose from Tosca’s list of fifty basic movements to strengthen, tone, and improve your health. These are exercises you can fit into the rhythm of your busy life. Moving a little for even fifteen minutes a day will help reshape your body and put you on a path to weight-loss success. Like a good friend and trusted mentor, Tosca will show you how to believe in yourself again, forgive yourself, and imagine a life of joy you thought was out of reach. Her Start Here “essentials”—shopping and cooking tips, meal plans, and thirty delicious recipes—will help you learn to eat to nourish your body, not just to feed it. As Tosca says, The Start Here Diet is all about cherishing you—and you are wonderful!

Kate Hudson will share her insights into how every woman can live healthy, strong and beautiful - from the inside out. For Kate Hudson the key to living healthfully is simplicity and positivity. The book includes lots of real-world ideas for eating better, making exercise enjoyable and for clearing the mind to leave space for positive thinking

''The book that parents and caregivers have been waiting for'' - Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled, Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers Foreword by Amy Schumer Raising Resilience is a guide to help you develop your child''s inner resources, so they can build strength even in times of crisis. Drawing on extensive clinical research with families, child development expert Tovah P. Klein offers Five Pillars of child resilience: - Create emotional safety - Teach emotional regulation - Offer limits alongside freedom - Connect with your child - Accept them as they are With common sense strategies rooted in research, Raising Resilience offers busy, stressed-out parents a guide that will help you establish a loving, stable and connected relationship to nurture your child from the inside out.

Practical, revealing, and utterly necessary, Family Outing is a guide like no other.

Un manual repleto de consejos para mejorar la memoria, activar la mente y aprender nuevas herramientas que cambiarán profundamente tu cuerpo y tu estilo de vida. Entre la divulgación científica y la memoria personal, este libro es la historia de transformación de la doctora Suzuki, y la base científica en la qué basó dicho cambio, en el que muestra cómo utilizar el cerebro para sentirte mejor contigo mismo y alcanzar una vida plena.

Wendy Suzuki, neurocientífica de renombre mundial y autora bestseller, ha desarrollado en La buena ansiedad un innovador programa para gestionar la ansiedad y convertirla en un poderoso recurso. Estamos viviendo en la era de la ansiedad y, a menudo, nos sentimos atrapados en un constante ciclo de estrés, insomnio y preocupación. Pero, ¿qué pasaría si tuviésemos una forma de convertir la ansiedad en un recurso que nos ayude a resolver problemas, ser más productivos y fortalecer nuestro bienestar? Es decir, ¿qué sucedería si en lugar de ver la ansiedad como una maldición, reconociésemos el regalo que representa? La galardonada neurocientífica Wendy Suzuki ha descubierto una verdad que cambiará el paradigma sobre la ansiedad: sí, es desagradable, pero es esencial para nuestra supervivencia. De hecho, la ansiedad es un componente clave para poder vivir de la mejor manera. Cada una de nuestras emociones tiene un objetivo evolutivo y la ansiedad está diseñada para visibilizarnos las emociones negativas. Si solo asumimos que debemos evitar, disminuir o eliminar nuestra ansiedad, perderemos la oportunidad de aprender a gestionar sus síntomas y la manera en la que puede mejorar nuestras vidas. La buena ansiedad nos enseña a trabajar nuestras preocupaciones desde la curiosidad, en lugar del miedo, para que nos guíen hacia la felicidad.

★ 《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》、《華盛頓郵報》、CNN暢銷書 ★ TED演講830萬次觀看數，當年度排名第二名 ★ 紐約大學知名大腦科學家溫蒂．鈴木博士，首度在台出書！ 如何利用排山倒海的焦慮感， 為自己創造出更佳的感受、思考與表現？ 紐約大學最權威的大腦科學家要告訴你， 焦慮不是弱點，而是一種天賦！ ──隨書附「管理焦慮」表格，幫助你翻轉焦慮，進而善用它── 你的生活中，是否也常出現這些狀況呢？ • 一緊張就容易搞砸要做的事，導致徒勞無功。 • 重要演說或簡報前，容易腦筋一片空白。 • 深信墨非定律，凡事只想到壞結果。 • 愈是臨近截止日，愈無法專注。 • 靠吃東西紓壓，壓力愈大吃愈多。 事實上，這些都是人們面臨焦慮時常有的反應。大多數人對焦慮避之唯恐不及，認為它是破壞成果的元兇。如果我們不再將焦慮視為詛咒，而是當作獨特的禮物，那會怎樣？ 身為神經科學家，溫蒂．鈴木博士發現了一個關於焦慮的真相：是的，它讓人不舒服，但對我們的生存也至關重要。鈴士博士以自己的經驗來說明，她曾在演說前緊張無比，擔心自己搞砸這一切，但也因為焦慮，促使她逼自己做好準備、事先演練，結果，她以完美的表現博得滿堂彩。 這也讓她發現：「當了解大腦並善用神經策略時，你將不再受制於焦慮，而是能以具體的方式控制它。」 因此，透過這本書，她想告訴你： ◆ 善用大腦可塑性，就能控制焦慮，讓人生更有力。 ◆ 活用書中所附的表格，就能有效「管理焦慮」（見頁245）。 ◆ 透過心流、復原力、正念冥想等，可化解焦慮、改善健康。 觸發焦慮的原因無所不在， 但我們有能力以「最好的方式」來面對它！ ▍本書特色 1.由現任紐約大學的大腦科學家所著，內容具有專業性。 2.搭配實作表格，方便讀者練習。 3.全書穿插真人實例，激勵人心。 國內名家一致推薦 莊博安｜微光心理諮商所所長、《慢性焦慮》作者 黃隆正｜奇美醫學中心成人精神科主任、《我不是故意的！成人也有ADHD》作者 廖泊喬｜精神科醫師 鄧善庭｜諮商心理師 鄧閔鴻｜國立中正大學心理學系副教授 蔡宇哲｜哇賽心理學創辦人兼總編輯 謝伯讓｜台大心理系副教授 （依姓氏筆劃排列） 好評短評 焦慮是必然，但不是無解。鈴木博士透過腦神經科學，深入探究生活中的社交、心流、冥想等狀態與焦慮的正負向連結，值得一讀！──莊博安，微光心理諮商所所長、《慢性焦慮》作者 如何面對壓力，轉化焦慮，是現代人的重要課題！本書是很好的解方。──黃隆正，奇美醫學中心成人精神科主任、《我不是故意的！成人也有ADHD》作者 用新的眼光看待自己、困境與經驗，一直都是諮商中重要的改變契機，邀請你重新看待焦慮為積極、主動的能量，改變自己、改變大腦。──鄧善庭，諮商心理師 認識焦慮、了解焦慮，並進而學習調適自己的焦慮，是讓我們能與「焦慮」這個與生俱來的警鈴，和平共存的良好適應方式。──鄧閔鴻，國立中正大學心理學系副教授 要了解焦慮才能調節它，若能調節，焦慮將不會是負擔，而是幫助你有好表現的助力！──蔡宇哲，哇賽心理學創辦人兼總編輯 焦慮讓人難受，但也能驅動我們脫離逆境。這本書將帶你了解焦慮、利用焦慮，並藉此改變人生。──謝伯讓，台大心理系副教授 國際讚譽 「我總是對我的精神科病患說，適度的焦慮是好事。關鍵在於學習運用你的大腦，改變你看待焦慮的方式，這樣你就能利用焦慮的祕密能力。所以我很愛《改造焦慮大腦》這本書。本書提供一個隨手得可的工具箱，幫助你將焦慮這個令人沮喪的東西，轉變成超能力。」──丹尼爾G.亞曼，醫學博士，精神病學家、神經科學家，榮登《紐約時報》暢銷作家，著作包括《一生都受用的大腦救命手冊》及《大腦一直都在傾聽》 「對任何想了解如何善用各個領域的創造力和生產力的人，《改造焦慮大腦》是必讀佳作。」──伊芙．羅德斯基，《紐約時報》暢銷書《公平競爭》和《找到你的獨角獸空間》作者 「焦慮不是弱點──焦慮是你的大腦在告訴你該改變了。在這本充滿洞見的書中，溫蒂．鈴木博士拆解所有的細節，告訴你如何以及為何要翻轉你的觀點，將焦慮轉變為祕密武器，幫助你得到想要的生活。她會幫你將致命弱點變成你的超能力！」──莉莎．比利尤，「衝擊理論」共同創辦者 「每個人偶爾會感到焦慮，但《改造焦慮大腦》告訴我們，我們不只可以和焦慮共存，還能讓焦慮為我們服務。溫蒂．鈴木博士是紐約大學的神經科學與心理學教授，她以完整且易讀的方式和我們分享科學知識。然後她提供清楚的工具和策略，幫助我們的人生更完整。」──雪倫．索茲柏格，《充滿愛的仁慈以及真實的改變》作者 「一本博學、實用、易讀的書，作者分享的親身經歷，肯定能幫助焦慮的人。」──《紐約書評》 「在這本實用的自助指南中，焦慮不只很有用，而且也是現代生活的必須。」──《出版者周刊》 「鈴木博士提供一個很棒的地圖，幫助生活在憂慮倍增的世界中想要找到出路的人。」──《華爾街日報》 「鈴木博士擷取自數十年的神經科學專長與研究，再加上一點自己的故事，創作了一本實用、以科學為根據的指南，給想要改變的讀者。」──《華爾街郵報》 「必要的指南，提供焦慮的應對小訣竅以及溝通與生產力的訓練技巧，適合任何感到焦慮、壓力或憂慮很多的人。」──《財星》雜誌 「鈴木博士詳述焦慮的生理學知識，幫助我們重塑對焦慮的看法，讓我們不再無助，而是感覺更有力量。」──CNN

本书带给读者看待焦虑的另一种视角----一种能赋予更多力量的新视角.作者通过自己的亲身经历,来访者的真实案例,以及各种有用练习,教读者如何驾驭焦虑,将焦虑这个让人烦恼的情绪转变成自己的超能力.