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​Stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life! Now in its second edition, the best-selling  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.
      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. You’ll learn how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. You’ll 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, you’ll 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, this book is a powerful tool to jump-start changes in your life. Comes with free online bonus worksheets, self-assessments, and guided audio mindfulness meditations.
~Praise~ … combines the accumulated wisdom of the ages with up to date, cutting edge developments in scientific psychology. In an easy-to-read and fun format, those suffering from anxiety in all of its guises will find the keys to breaking loose from its shackles... Highly recommended for all those struggling with worry, anxiety, and fear. ––David H. Barlow, Ph.D., Founder and Director Emeritus, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Profesor of Psychology and Psychiatry, 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 V. Segal, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders, University of Toronto - Scarborough and author of The Mindful Way Workbook.

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS adapts the principles of ACT into practical, step-by-step clinical methods that therapists can easily integrate into their practices. The book focuses on the broad class of anxiety disorders, the most common group of mental illnesses, which includes general anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Written with therapists in mind, this book is easy to navigate, allowing busy professionals to find the information they need when they need it. It includes detailed examples of individual therapy sessions as well as many worksheets and exercises, the very important 'homework' clients do at home to reinforce work they do in the office. The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes electronic versions of all of the worksheets in the book as well as PowerPoint and audio features that make learning and teaching these techniques easy and engaging.
~Praise ~"... by 'treating' the struggle as the problem and letting fear play out to an increasingly disinterested audience of one ...  this book clearly lays the type of experiential learning foundation that allows clients to embody these concepts and, through their actions, develop a new relationship with their fears. This book will certainly become a vital clinical resource for any therapist, student or educator in the field of anxiety disorders.”—Zindel V. Segal, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders, University of Toronto - Scarborough and author of The Mindful Way Workbook.
 
ACT ON LIFE NOT ON ANGER If you've tried to control problem anger before with little success, this book offers you a fundamentally new approach and new hope. Instead of struggling even harder to manage or eliminate your anger, you can stop anger feelings from determining who you are and how you live your life. Based on a revolutionary psychological approach called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the techniques in ACT on Life Not on Anger can help you let go of anger and start living your life to the fullest.
      Your path begins as you learn to accept your angry feelings as they occur, without judging or trying to manage them. Then, using techniques based in mindfulness practice, you'll discover how to observe your feelings of anger without acting on them. Value-identification exercises help you figure out what truly matters to you so that you can commit to short- and long-term goals that turn your values into reality. In the process, anger will lose power over your life-and, amazingly, you'll gain control over your life by simply letting go of your angry feelings.
~Praise ~: "Anyone who sees their anger as a struggle, as something to confront, suppress, control- or, worst of all, ignore-will find this book to be a gift of life and hope. The authors offer practical ways of understanding the problem and debunking the myths of anger, all with genuine acceptance and compassion. This feeling is translated into practical exercises which are easy to use, and most importantly, they really work! I have been fortunate to witness this in my own practice, even with clients with severe trauma histories and self-destructiveness. Use these techniques on your own, use them in therapy, but by all means use them and find a gentle path toward healing in the presence of anger." — Francis R. Abueg, Ph.D., founder and owner of Trauma Resource and former associate director for research for the National Center for PTSD at the VA in Palo Alto/Menlo Park, CA.

LIFE ON PURPOSE – So many of us postpone pursuing our goals and dreams because we think we'll get to them later, when we have more time or feel we're worthy of them. As a result, we go through life feeling weighed down by daily responsibilities and our own self-doubts, entirely disconnected from a sense of real purpose.
      Your LIFE ON PURPOSE  is about doing what matters to you every day instead of waiting for the perfect time to feel fulfilled and alive. With this book as your guide, you'll learn to move past daily distractions, fear of failure, and self-judgment, and zero in on the passions that connect you with your true self. You deserve to live a life of purpose, aligned with your deepest values. It is time!
      With this book, you'll discover how to find and do what you are passionate about; keep mental obstacles, fears, and daily demands from blocking your path to fulfillment; find your way when values conflict; focus on what truly matters to make your dreams a reality and a lasting impact on the world.
      So what are you waiting for? Start changing your life today.
~ Praise ~ "Your Life on Purpose is a remarkable little book. I don't think anyone has ever made as much sense out of the conflicts embedded in the human condition in as few words. The idea that pain and fear are necessary experiences if we are to build lives we care about is a surprisingly freeing notion. Then the question becomes, what do we care most about? This book helps us answer this question for ourselves--and turn intentions into action, step by careful step. Reading this book, I thought of 10 friends and family members who need to read it, too.  — Amanda Ripley, Time Magazine contributor and author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes
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THE ANOREXIA WORKBOOK  is the first book available that addresses the particular needs of people suffering from anorexia with the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary new psychotherapy. Despite ever-widening media attention and public awareness of the problem, women in western countries continue to suffer from anorexia nervosa in greater numbers than ever before. This severe psychophysiological condition-characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming obese, a persistent unwillingness to eat, and severe compulsion to lose weight-is particularly difficult to treat, often because the victims are unwilling to seek help. The Anorexia Workbook demonstrates that efforts to control and stop anorexia may do more harm than good. Instead of focusing efforts on judging impulses associated with the disorder as 'bad' or 'negative,' this approach encourages sufferers to mindfully observe these feelings without reacting to them in a self-destructive way. Guided by this more compassionate, more receptive frame of mind, the book coaches you to employ various acceptance-based coping strategies.
      Structured in a logical, step-by-step progression of exercises, the workbook first focuses on providing you with a new understanding of anorexia and the ways you might have already tried to control the problem. Then the book progresses through techniques that teach how to use mindfulness to deal with out-of-control thoughts and feelings, how to identify choices that lead to better heath and quality of life, and how to redirect the energy formerly spent on weight loss into actions that will heal the body and mind. Although this book is written specifically as self-help for anorexia sufferers, it includes a clear and informative chapter on when you need to seek professional treatment as well as advice on what to look for in a therapist.
~Praise ~ "...this is a remarkably useful book, full of easily understood but not simplistic principles for self-change. Individuals experiencing anorexia, as well as their therapists, families, and friends can find useful wisdom in this book, reassured that it draws on new but sound principles in clinical psychology."—Ian M. Evans, PhD, fellow of the American Psychological Association and Royal Society of New Zealand, and author of Non-Aversive Intervention for Behavior Problems.