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

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

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

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.

The most critical element that separates normal from problematic anxiety and fear is this: avoidance, avoidance, and more avoidance. It’s the common tie that binds all anxiety disorders together. Avoidance of fear and anxiety feeds anxiety and fear, and it shrinks lives.

The antidote to this mind virus is compassion and learning skills that will help you look at and relate to your mind, body, and life in a different way—a way that won’t get you tangled up in what your mind is throwing at you all the time.

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.

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.

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

“I have reclaimed what was always mine: a full life—not without worry—but one where worry and fear occupy a safe place that feels okay.”