Show Your Anxiety Who's Boss
An Anxiety Self-Help Book Based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Show Your Anxiety Who’s Boss is your guide to responding to anxiety’s distressing sensations, thoughts, urges and feelings with more useful plans and predictions, greater acceptance and self-compassion, and a commitment to value-driven action.
If you struggle with excessive worry, panic, phobias, or intrusive thoughts, you’ve probably noticed that your efforts to reduce or control anxiety with positive thinking, breathing exercises, distraction, medication, avoidance, or other safety behaviors don’t always pay off. And when they do, the effect tends to be weak and short-lived. Not only that, devoting so much energy and attention to reducing distress can cause you to spend more time on anxiety management than you do on more meaningful activities that bring pleasure, personal control, and a sense of accomplishment.
Grounded in the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Show Your Anxiety Who’s Boss is an anxiety self-help book that will help you change your relationship to anxiety. Instead of understanding anxiety as an intolerable emotion that must be defeated, you’ll employ three foundational strategies to stand up to anxiety, take back control, and live on your own terms:
- Useful Predictions, Not Anxious Fictions: When you get stuck on worries that overestimate the likelihood or impact of an upcoming challenge, or you underestimate your ability to cope, you’ll learn how to respond with more realistic and useful beliefs that set you up for better emotional and behavioral outcomes.
- Take Action, Demand Satisfaction: When the urge to avoid discomfort or anxiety provoking situations seems overpowering, you’ll learn how to respond with a renewed commitment to taking on meaningful challenges that promote life satisfaction–even if anxiety happens to come along for the ride.
- Accept and Redirect: When you find yourself getting too invested in difficult thoughts and feelings that push back harder when you try to control them, you’ll learn to respond with greater objectivity, tolerance, humor, and self-compassion, so you can redirect your attention to what’s truly important in the moment.
About the author: Dr. Joel Minden is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related concerns. He is the director of Chico Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and lecturer at California State University, Chico. He is the author of the anxiety self-help book, Show Your Anxiety Who’s Boss, and CBT and Me, at Psychology Today.
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Show Your Anxiety Who's Boss
An Anxiety Self-Help Book Based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy