Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier (eBook)

Scott Douglas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
288 Seiten
The Experiment, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-61519-445-2 (ISBN)

Infos

From a New York Timesbestselling author and lifelong runner, a groundbreaking guide to fighting depression and anxiety one run at a time There's no other book like this. Longtime running writer Scott Douglas marshals expert advice (especially his own, cultivated from more than 110,000 miles of personal experience), and a growing body of scientific research to show how running can make us happier. How? Everyone knows that running builds stronger muscles and a healthier heart; science now shows it also helps develop a healthier brain. For those struggling with depression and anxiety, a consistent running routine can enhance the mental-health benefits of talk therapy, antidepressants, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The key to running's therapeutic power lies in its lasting physiological effects, inducing changes in brain structure and chemistry that other forms of exercise don'tincluding the best mood boost in all of sports, thanks to the body's release of natural pain-relievers.Running is my therapy is no longer just a mantra for seasoned runners; with science behind him, Douglas presents proven methods so that we can all use running to improve our mental health and live happierin and out of running shoes.

Autor

Scott Douglas is a contributing editor for Runner’s World. He has also been the editor of Running Times and Runner’s World’s news channel. Douglas has written or cowritten several other books, including the New York Times bestseller Meb for Mortals and perennial favorite Advanced Marathoning. He lives in South Portland, Maine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2019
• Vorwort: Alison Mariella Désir
• Zusatzinfo: 13 B&W photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Schlagworte: Anxiety • Beginners • Benefits • Care • depressed • Depression • Distance • exercise • exercise mental health • fight depression • gifts • Guide • Healing • how to • Managing • Marathon • meditate • Mental Health • Mindful • Mindfulness • Movement • Practices • Run • Running • running benefits • running guide • running mental health • running practices • self • self care • Self Help • therapy • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 1-61519-445-2 / 1615194452
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61519-445-2 / 9781615194452