Stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life! Now in its second edition,The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety offers new, step-by-step skills based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you get started today. This edition features new chapters on trauma, self-as-context, and painful pasts.
Do you try to control your worry, fear, and panic, only to fail and end up feeling frustrated and powerless? Unfortunately, you cannot simply turn off anxious thoughts and feelings like a light switch. But thereare ways you can take back your life and stop avoiding the things that cause you anxiety. This book has one purpose: to help you live better, more fully, and more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen.
This fully revised and updated second edition offers compelling new ACT exercises to help you finally conquer your anxiety. Youll learn how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. Youll also discover ways to nurture your capacity for acceptance, mindfulness, kindness, and compassion, and use these qualities to shift your focus away from anxiety and onto what you really want your life to be about. Finally, youll learn how to let go of the trauma and painful past experiences that can fuel your anxiety.
No matter what kind of anxiety problem you're struggling with, this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life.
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.
The first edition of the award-winning The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety introduced countless readers to the concept of mindfulness, and has successfully helped many people manage worry, fear, and panic so they can live a better life. This fully revised and updated second edition of the best-selling and innovative workbook offers readers compelling new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) exercises to help them finally conquer their anxiety.
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| Prologue---Does This Workbook Really Work? |
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| Introduction |
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PART 1 PREPARING THE WAY FOR SOMETHING NEW |
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1 Choose a New Approach to Get a Different Outcome |
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2 You Are Not Alone: Understanding Anxiety and Its Disorders |
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3 Confronting the Core Problem: Living to Avoid Fear and Anxiety Is No Way to Live |
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4 Myths About Anxiety and Its Disorders |
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5 Letting Go of Old Myths Opens Up New Opportunities |
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PART 2 STARTING A NEW JOURNEY |
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6 Facing the Costs to Take Charge of Your Life |
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7 What Matters More to You: Managing Anxiety or Living a Good Life? |
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8 Ending Your Struggle with Anxiety Is the Solution |
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9 You Control Your Choices, Actions, and Destiny |
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10 Getting Into Your Life with Mindful Acceptance |
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11 Taking the Observer Perspective: You Are Much More than Your Problems |
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PART 3 RECLAIMING YOUR LIFE AND LIVING IT |
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12 Taking Control of Your Life |
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14 Breaking Free from Anxiety with Mindful Acceptance |
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233 | (16) |
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15 Bringing Compassion to Your Anxiety |
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16 Developing Comfort in Your Own Skin |
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261 | (16) |
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17 Developing Comfort with Your Judgmental Mind |
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18 Making Peace with a Difficult Past |
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293 | (16) |
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19 Moving Toward a Valued Life |
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20 Staying the Course and Living Your Values |
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| Further Readings and Internet Resources |
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| References |
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John P. Forsyth, PhD, is a scientist, writer, and licensed clinical psychologist in upstate New York. He has traveled the world giving talks and workshops to the public and professionals about the benefits of mindful acceptance, kindness and compassion, and how to live a valued life using a new approach to psychological health and wellness called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). He is associate professor of psychology, director of the doctoral training program in clinical psychology, and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has published many articles about how excessive struggle with unpleasant thoughts and emotions feeds human suffering, and what mindfulness and acceptance can offer as a solution. He is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, ACT on Life, Not on Anger, and The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety. His work has helped foster growing international interest in acceptance and mindfulness approaches in psychology, mental health care, medicine, and society.
Georg H. Eifert, PhD, was ranked among the top thirty researchers in behavior analysis and therapy in the 1990s, and has authored over 100 publications on psychological causes and treatments of anxiety and other emotional disorders. He is clinical fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society, a member of numerous national and international psychological associations, and serves on several editorial boards of leading clinical psychology journals. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist. He is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and ACT on Life, Not on Anger.
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