Audiobooks by Daniel G. Amen, MD

What I Learned from a Penguin: A Story on How to Help People Change

Too often we pay attention to negative behavior and ignore the positive. We are rarely taught the benefit of positive reinforcement, and instead focus on the negative and expect automatic change. This children’s book is based on a true story as experienced by Dr. Amen himself. One day while watching a penguin named Fat Freddy take part in a stunt show at a local amusement park, he is astonished to see the penguin perform so well. Frustrated by his own son’s behavior, Dr. Amen decides to talk with the trainer after the show to find out how she got the penguin to follow all of her directions. Through clever rhyme and storytelling, the trainer shares with Dr. Amen the power of positive reinforcement. Though designed with elementary school students in mind, this story has taught people of all ages a valuable, life-changing lesson.

Daniel G. Amen, Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Daniel G. Amen, MD, Jesse Payne (Author), Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Daniel G. Amen, MD (Narrator)

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Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions That Steal Your Life

Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex? When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill. Do you want to break free from your addictions? If so, you need to optimize your brain. The brain plays a central role in your vulnerability to addiction and your ability to recover. Brain dysfunction is the number one reason people fall victim to addiction, why they can’t break the chains of addiction, and why they relapse. Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions That Steal Your Life is a practical, easy-to-follow step-by-step program that shows you how to boost your brain so you can kick your bad habits. In this book, you will discover how addictions get stuck in your brain, how to get them unstuck, and how to find lasting motivation to change; why brain imaging changes everything, even if you never get a scan; how to get the right evaluation to ensure that you can heal from your addictions; the six different types of addiction based on brain types, why all addicts are not the same, and how to find the best treatment solutions for you based on your brain type; strategies to boost your brain to get control; ways to lock up the craving monster that steals your life; tips to eat right so you can think right and heal from your addiction; how to kill the addiction ANTs that infest your brain and keep you in chains; ways to prevent relapse by following H-A-L-T plus brain science; and how hypnosis and meditation can help you unchain your brain, including a twelve-minute meditation and a real hypnosis session done by Dr. Amen. When you have a healthy brain, it makes it so much easier to stick with a program designed to help you quit smoking, drinking, gambling, doing drugs, overeating, or whatever your addiction may be.

Daniel G. Amen, Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Daniel G. Amen, MD, David E. Smith, David E. Smith, MD (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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ADD in Intimate Relationships: A Comprehensive Guide for Couples

Attention deficit disorder causes intense unhappiness. Men and women who truly desire a close relationship often find that their day-to-day behaviors interfere with the very intimacy they seek. Understanding ADD can provide hope. In this book Dr. Amen shares both a professional and personal knowledge of the disorder. ADD in Intimate Relationships is a must-read for anyone struggling with this disease. “Daniel Amen is, by almost any measure, the most popular psychiatrist in America.”—Washington Post, praise for the author

Daniel G. Amen, Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Daniel G. Amen, MD (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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How to Get out of Your Own Way: A Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying and Achieving Your Goals

Tired of losing—and suspecting you are your own worst enemy? This is the book you’ve been looking for! Full of expert, pragmatic advice for unraveling and breaking through self-defeating behavior, it uses a combination of interactive questionnaires and exercises to help you turn around your career, your relationships, and even your very own personality. This audio program shows you twenty-seven self-sabotaging characteristics, how your family background affects your career, how to escape negative patterns of the past, how to form positive personal and business relationships, the nine rules for defining success, and the importance of “imagineering.” Discover who you really are and who you can become. Start making key decisions, great career moves, and dynamic everyday choices in your life! You are the key to your own success.

Daniel G. Amen, Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Daniel G. Amen, MD (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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