John Windisman
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John Windisman

John Windisman, BSc, spent his career leading an engineering group in the wireless communications industry, where success depended on taking complex systems and making them easy to understand. When severe anxiety disrupted his own life, he applied that same analytical mindset to understanding how the mind works. Over the next 15 years, he studied mindfulness, self-compassion, cognitive behavioral therapy, neuroscience, psychology, and emotional well-being, searching for the underlying principles that connected them.

He discovered that these approaches are not competing ideas. They are complementary skills that work best when practiced in the right sequence. That insight led him to develop the 4-Steps™: Mindfulness, Compassion, Insight, and Reframing. This practical framework helps people understand why they think, feel, and behave the way they do, and how lasting emotional change becomes possible.

John is the author of Center Yourself and Soar and founder of Optimistic Brain. His mission is to help people understand how their minds work so they can change how they feel and build greater emotional well-being.
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    • Center Yourself and Soar

    • The 4-Steps™ Approach to Reduce Overthinking, Calm Anxiety, and Regain Emotional Balance (Abridged Edition)
    • By: John Windisman
    • Narrated by: John Windisman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 min
    • Release date: 02/10/2026
    • Language: English
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