The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety Phobias and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

About this book

Attempts to manage your thoughts or get rid of worry fear and panic can leave you feeling frustrated and powerless. But you can take back your life from anxiety without controlling anxious thoughts and feelings. You can stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life. The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety will get you started using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy or ACT. The book has one purpose: to help you live better more fully more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen. Find out how your mind can trap you keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. Learn to nurture your capacity for acceptance mindfulness kindness and compassion. Use these qualities to shift your focus away from anxiety and onto what you really want your life to be about. As you do your life will get bigger as your anxious suffering gets smaller. No matter what kind of anxiety problem youre struggling with this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life. Includes a CD with bonus worksheets self-assessments and guided mindfulness meditations. This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.