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

It involves active skills that’ll help you to respond differently—with kindness, compassion, gentleness, less engagement—when anxieties, fears, worries, panic, and other sources of emotional and psychological pain show up.

People know anxiety by having anxious apprehension or a sense of foreboding, worry, and muscle tension.

people with anxiety disorders struggle with, avoid, and run away from their fear and anxiety.

Our goal is to foster your willingness to take your inner emotional discomfort along with you in the service of your life goals and dreams.

Accept with serenity what you cannot change, have the courage to change what you can, and develop the wisdom to know the difference.

People with GAD often have a pervasive feeling that they can do little to predict and control stressful events in their lives, so they end up worrying about them. There’s now convincing research evidence that people engage in worry as a way to avoid this unpleasant imagery and the physical tension associated with anxiety

One thing we’ve noticed again and again in working with people struggling with anxiety and fear-related problems is this: they constantly beat up on themselves. They feel that they’re not good enough; they’re too weak; they just haven’t got what it takes to lead a more fulfilled life. They’re somehow broken. No book lists this type of self-denigrat

you’ll need to learn how to acknowledge anxious thoughts and feelings without “becoming” them, and without acting on them and doing what they say.

anxiety tends to be fueled more by what your mind says than by real sources of danger or threat.