Uptight & Off Center: How Sensory Processing Disorder Throws Adults Off Balance & How to Create Stability

Do you feel uptight, anxious and off center? Perhaps you are spacey, confused, distracted and disorganized. Or impulsive, compulsive, or clumsy?

If so, you may have sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common, though relatively unknown condition in which sensory messages get scrambled in the brain and you cannot make accurate sense of, or respond appropriately to your world.

Uptight and Off Center will help you discover the symptoms, causes and many treatments for SPD. It will teach you how to implement a sensory diet for your unique nervous system by implementing sensorimotor activities and mind-body interventions. These interventions will rewire your brain to enable you to take better control over your life. Over time, this will translate into being more balanced, upbeat, productive, energetic, and loving.

Sharon Heller, PhD is a developmental psychologist, consultant, and author of "Too Loud, too Bright, too Fast, too Tight, What to do if you are sensory defensive in an overstimulating world" (HarperCollins, 2002), as well as other popular psychology books.