the anxiety toolkit an anxiety book for everyone

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Instead, the aim of the book is to teach strategies for learning to live with the fact that you tend to be anxiety prone, and reduce the ways anxiety might bring you down, or limit you. We’d love your help. Does anything less than perfect performance feel like failure?

If you deal with anxiety every day, crippling anxiety once in a while, or anything in between, feel free to bookmark this page and come back to it when you need a little help. I read it as an audiobook while doing other things, so I missed out on some of the things it wanted me to do (make lists, answer quizzes, etc).

I loved that each chapter started with questions so I could understand how applicable that particular section was to me. Hi, I’m Dr Alice Boyes, author of The Healthy Mind Toolkit (2018) and The Anxiety Toolkit (2015), published by PenguinRandomHouse. Self-help books can be a good way for you to learn about new techniques or try things that’ve worked well for others. This book is my anxiety blanket. The book contains 11 chapters, broken up into three parts: Understanding Yourself and Your Anxiety, Overcoming Your Stuck Points, and Where to Next?

This makes the book very real, and gives you a greater trust in what it says. Because every strategy in here is based on the best scientific evidence available. Do you take negative feedback very hard?

The author includes practical CBT exercises to try and references online resources whenever applicable.As someone who has dealt with anxiety for a long time, I find myself deeply interested in reading books about anxiety, and I find in general that most such books come in one of two types. Definitely a great resource to have on hand and refer back to again and again! I am already feeling better as I try to practice these strategies.Clear, straightforward descriptions of ways that you might be thinking about stuff the wrong way, and suggestions about how to change your thinking patterns. But this great anxiety book gives excellent tools for controlling anxiety. You won’t be disappointed.I'm thinking of purchasing this book so I can refer to it from time to time and make annotations. She also brings her years of clinical and research experience to show you how to get unstuck.

Do you take negative feedback very hard? I had a hard time relating to this book.

It's full of practical suggestions to help reframe thinking and would be an excellent start to working with an anxious client. A book that is self aware not all parts are going to be fitting for all audience. First, it's down-to-earth and honest.

The author includes practical CBT exercises to try and references online resources wI'm thinking of purchasing this book so I can refer to it from time to time and make annotations. But good tips nevertheless. Her writing is down-to-earth and easy to read. In fact, Boyes herself admits she's still an anxiety-prone person, and gives many examples of how she uses the strategThis is one of the best self-help books I've read. Either the book comes at anxiety from a particularly cerebral approach (as this one does), or the book comes at it from a pro-Buddhist and New Age approach. There are so many practical tips and strategies, you can dip in and out of the book and find exactly what you need.I ended up skim reading this as it had to go back to the library.

I knew that it had stuff I should learn about but it was definitely a slog for me to read through and I'm not sure why. A good starting point that I will likely revisit often.The Anxiety Toolkit by Alice Boyes, PhD was a Goodreads giveaway that I won in March and began reading in April finishing it in a day. So, I was hoping that someone else as well as I could get something from its content. There are no claims that you are going to suddenly become a different person and never feel anxious again. The writing is current and conversational. having an open office space can be overwhelming for a highly sensitive person).A short and extremely helpful guide to working through anxiety. The ebook version of my first book, The Anxiety Toolkit, made the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. I feel like a lot of the stuff in here didn't apply to my particular anxiety struggles. Her writing is down-to-earth and easy to read. “I have read many books on how to manage and work with anxiety.

I have really enjoyed some of the author’s Psychology Today articles and was eager to read her book.

Best for: People with certain types of anxiety (but probably not everyone with anxiety).Best for: People with certain types of anxiety (but probably not everyone with anxiety).This is one of the best self-help books I've read. Boyes also uses a lot of examples to showcase how anxiety may present itself in everyday situations (ie. It's well written and informative - maybe it just wasn't the right timing for me.I think this book had a lot of good tips that I will definitely go back to, the only reason that I'm giving it 3 stars is because it was so hard to get through.