The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry & Anxiety using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Do You Worry All the Time? Have you tried to control your thoughts and get your worrying under control? Did it work? If it didnt try this simple exercise: Take thirty seconds right here and now and dont think about something you recently worried about. Think about anything and everything else but dont think about that worry. How did you do? Like most of us you probably could think of little else except whatever it was you worried about no matter how hard you tried. This is the problem with trying to control your thoughts: Your attempts to stop worrying very often lead you to repeat and refresh the very worries youre trying to dispel. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) a revolutionary new approach to resolving a wide range of psychological problems can help you break the cycle of chronic worry. ACT stresses letting go of your attempts to avoid change and get rid of worry. Instead it shows you how to accept your feelings as they occur without judgment. Youll learn to de-fuse from your worries observing and then letting them go. Then youll explore and commit to acting on your values thereby creating a rich life for yourself-even with the occasional worry. Pragmatic straightforward help from an astute and expert clinician; the author draws on cutting-edge research findings to help those who suffer from the age-old problem of worry. -Jacqueline B. Persons Ph.D. director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Berkeley This should be a welcome and helpful book for anyone whose life is disrupted by worry. LeJeune offers a practical and informative approach for dealing with worry that places it squarely in the larger and wondrous context of ones whole life! The easy-to-follow mindfulness methods and acceptance practices open the door for real transformation to any reader who actually does them. -Jeffrey Brantley MD director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Universitys Center for Integrative Medicine and author of Calming Your Anxious Mind