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Anxiety happens. It's not a choice. And 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. This book will get you started, using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT. The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety 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 you're struggling with, this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life. "...Highly recommended for all those struggling with worry, anxiety, and fear." - David H. Barlow, Ph.D., professor of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University and author of Anxiety and Its Disorders. "...a "must-read" for anyone encountering anxiety as a barrier to a leading a fuller life." - Zindel Segal, Ph.D., Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherpy at the University of Toronto and author of The Mindful Way Through Depression. This workbook comes with a CD that includes a full-length audio guided meditation and electronic copies of the worksheets that appear inside the book.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 17 reviews)

Faith is the assured expectation of things unseen in which we merely have evidence. by WILLIAM MCLEAN (Medford, OR USA)

5 Stars
September 23, 2009
Knowing that I know nothing, I am aware that I do have opinions. But my opinions keep changing. Some people call this "learning." I call it changing faith. Even scientists know they are accepting theories as true based on evidence that convinces them to have faith. Yes, even scientific laws with strong evidence are sustained by faith - until the next level of evidence destroys the faith of past years. Then scientists, students, and lay public rearrange their faith to accommodate the newly observed evidence. For me, Mindfulness & Acceptance is my next level of faith. No, I have no plans to become a Buddhist. Not yet anyway. It is just that this book presents evidence that seems to expose some of the basic errors I have been making all my life. I have been avoiding uncomfortable situations of every kind - rather than relax and accept even relatively small discomforts. The result has been a life of frustration and failure (anxiety and depression). The book reads clearly and presents test worthy evidence. The workbook helps a lot. I already feel a sense of progress - less anxious and more accepting. Only time will tell how durable this faith is - or if I can personally benefit. I really think it's worth a try.

Great work by Simon (Dallas, TX)

5 Stars
September 03, 2009
This is the only work book I've ever read from cover to cover. Like another reveiwer said the authors seem entrenched into this subject matter and have an understanding of how anxiety can control the lives of many people. The book can be reptitive at times yet in my opinion it was beneficial to do so. This is a self-help book that actually contains substance. Right now all I've done is read the book from cover to cover without implementing the exercises. I'm going to reread it and implement the exercises. However I still picked up some practical suggestions from just reading the book. Kudos to the authors, this is defnitely a self-hep packed with understanding and compassion for the readers that are suffering from anxiety. You can tell from reading that the authors took their time and put a lot of effort into producing this laudable work.

A very wise book by Leonardo Lockheart

5 Stars
July 19, 2009
I enjoyed this book. The 'workbook' part of the title worried me at first because I disliked writing journals and tracking down thoughts all the time, but the information and exercises outweigh the writing, and the writing isn't as vast as cognitive therapy books. This book is easy to comprehend, and the design and layout of the pages are simple, and the pictures are humorous. But most importantly the content of the book is effective. It teaches that getting rid of anxiety isn't the answer. Rather, feeling the sensations from anxiety for what they really are, and noticing the judgments and fears that surround it, while doing things you care about (despite how you feel) is the key to finding relief. They constantly remind you as the reader, that from experience, you know following your habits hasn't worked. Being kind to yourself and your anxiety is also emphasized. It helps soften the judgments of our anxiety, reminds us that these feelings are still a part of us, though don't define who we are. Another significant component of the book regards values. The book introduces this subject with an exercise where you write your life as a worrier on a tombstone. This causes the reader to realize that life shouldn't be about trying to stop worrying, but doing things you want to do. So what if you're worried and scared to death? You let yourself be worried while doing these things (the exercises prepare you for this). If various therapies for anxiety were diets, then, in my opinion, ACT is like the old school way of dieting. You work hard and put effort into it, and eventually succeed. There are fab diets, ones that claim instant success. But in reality, things like this take commitment, and effort--there are no shortcuts.

Potentially Life Changing by SandyJane (VIC, AUSTRALIA)

5 Stars
April 17, 2009
If the reader is prepared to take their time through this book (as suggested by the author)and really committ to trying this approach, I believe it could be potentially life changing to those who embrace the approaches suggested. The power of anxiety affecting life can be less intense. Great book.

Extremely helpful by Margaret N. Carter (Australia)

5 Stars
April 16, 2009
This is an excellent book. Very helpful and motivational. The theory and ideas that it presents are the only real way to deal with anxiety disorders. I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffers from anxiety.

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