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Anxiety has many faces. It can look like chronic avoidance, dwelling on the past, fear of uncertainty, reassurance seeking, catastrophic thinking, or fear of losing control. This is What Anxiety Looks Like dives right into relatable case studies, using a story-based approach to help readers overcome the 13 most common causes of anxiety, so they can live their lives with less worry and fear.

Children face a number of anxiety-inducing challenges every day--from school to extracurricular activities to making friends. The good news is that kids can also learn to turn their overly anxious thoughts into curiosity, determination, and bravery. Built on the solid foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)--yet cleverly disguised as fun, kid-focused games and activities--this workbook is designed to help children ages 5 to 9 discover the not-so-scary world around them, and channel all that energy away from fear and worry--and toward courage and confidence.

People with co-occurring anxiety and depression often struggle with intense emotions, intrusive thoughts, obsessive rumination, and low mood. This workbook offers a powerful and innovative approach blending cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and meditation to help readers find emotional balance, gain distance from negative thoughts, soothe anxiety, feel more confident and assertive, and improve their overall mood and outlook on life.

Today's kids face unprecedented challenges, and often struggle with anxiety and worry as a result. This engaging workbook is packed with fun and creative activities based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)--a proven-effective treatment in reducing anxiety in children--this fully illustrated workbook teaches kids ages 5 to 12 how to cope with chronic worry and stress by developing a flexible mindset. With this kid-friendly guide, children will feel empowered and more confident to face their fears and live joyfully.

Highly sensitive people (HSP) in their teens struggle mightily with their own amplified feelings, as well as being perceived as "different" from their peers. In The Highly Sensitive Teen, an expert with more than thirty years' experience working with adolescents teaches teens essential skills to cope with high sensitivity, interact well with others, set healthy boundaries, and embrace their hidden powers so they can achieve their goals and thrive.

Full of invitations to reflect, writing and meditative practices, and gentle affirmations, The Pregnancy and Baby Loss Guided Journal offers readers a safe space to honor their child; process difficult thoughts and feelings; and heal from miscarriage, stillbirth, or other reproductive loss. In this compassionate journal, readers will learn to develop self-compassion, manage raw emotions in healthy ways, and rediscover hope as they move forward in their lives.

Black children who've experienced systemic racism are more likely to experience stress, anger, anxiety, and depression--all of which can negatively impact their school life, home, and community. In this much-needed resource, race and mental health expert Erlanger Turner offers parents evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help their kids cope with race-based stress and promote resilience and healing.

When a family member or spouse is struggling with a serious mental illness, readers need practical tools right now. Written by a husband-and-wife team--and drawing on their own lived experience navigating mental illness together--this much-needed guide offers compassionate advice and effective strategies to help readers support their loved one in a crisis, make room for self-care, and create shared goals for recovery.

Whether or not we share our story with others, processing past experiences by writing them down on paper lets us see our trauma in new and more transformative ways. This compassionate guided journal offers powerful exercises, prompts, and write-to-heal techniques grounded in neuroscience to help readers recognize patterns of trauma from their childhood and build resilience by rewriting their brain's internal story.

Combining cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), The Psychosis Workbook offers a targeted approach to help individuals manage their symptoms, sustain their recovery, and achieve better mental health.

Manifestation--also known as the law of attraction--is the act of mentally visualizing one's success. The concept has gained tremendous popularity in mainstream and social media. But for trauma survivors, successful manifestation first involves healing from the pain of the past. Heal Your Past to Manifest Your Future teaches a trauma-informed manifesting approach to help readers regulate their nervous system; reparent their inner child; rewire their brain to release emotional blocks; and achieve the abundance, happiness, and success they deserve.

Victims of narcissistic abuse and gaslighting often experience overwhelming feelings of shame, guilt, humiliation, and a belief that they are fundamentally flawed as a person. Survivors of this abuse need tools to heal and rebuild their sense of self-worth. This powerful workbook teaches readers proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to heal from narcissistic abuse, regulate emotions, set effective boundaries, and build healthy relationships.

Packed with instantly accessible and engaging mindfulness-based exercises, Sober Starting Today Workbook offers a clear, compassionate pathway for anyone seeking to overcome problematic alcohol or drug use. With this workbook, readers will learn effective strategies for pursuing sobriety and achieving freedom from addiction, beginning on day one.

Children of parents who are self-centered, manipulative, and emotionally abusive are often left feeling insecure, anxious, and fundamentally unlovable as adults. From the author of the self-help hit Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, this book takes readers who grew up with emotionally abusive parents on a healing journey to understand what happened in their past; transform deep pain into emotional resilience; and build the loving, meaningful relationship with themselves that they deserve.

People with depression often struggle with low mood, lack of motivation, and feelings of overwhelm that keep them feeling stuck and unable to move forward. Grounded in evidence-based behavioral activation--a powerfully effective treatment for depression--this workbook offers readers an array of actionable strategies to increase their motivation, connect with what matters, manage difficult thoughts and feelings, boost their mood, and build a better life--one step at a time.

Addiction is often triggered by loneliness, trauma, or loss, yet many traditional treatments fail to uncover the root cause, and focus instead on managing addictive behaviors--with varying degrees of success. Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) provides readers with the tools they need to heal the emotional pain and isolation that addiction desperately attempts to soothe. Readers will also learn essential skills for building a sense of belonging and safety with the ones they love--so they can lean into community and connection instead of drugs and alcohol.

The teen years are often fraught with intense emotions. Teens are hypersensitive to judgment from others, and can be highly reactive when parents attempt to set limits. Grounded in cutting-edge polyvagal theory, Staying Connected with Your Teen shines a light on why teens are triggered, and offers nerve-calming strategies to minimize reactivity, nurture a stronger connection, and help parents lovingly guide their teen on the path to adulthood.

Written by two experts in the field, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame offers a step-by-step, evidence-based approach to healing from shame using the core skills of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. Using the exercises in this workbook, readers will learn to cultivate nonjudgmental self-acceptance, and discover skills for managing difficult emotions--even in situations that trigger feelings of shame, guilt, or self-directed anger.

Self-criticism and self-blame are often at the root of depression, anxiety, and addiction. These toxic forms of emotional self-harm can lead to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, and interfere with day-to-day functioning. From an expert on self-forgiveness therapy, this workbook teaches proven-effective skills readers can use to develop the ability to forgive themselves, quiet their critical inner voice, and begin to build a life of meaning and purpose.

You never know when negative thoughts will show up, crash your party, cramp your style, and get in the way of living your best life. This take-anywhere, use-anytime guide offers quick, simple, and evidence-based skills drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help readers make peace with their inner frenemy, turn the volume down on negative chatter, and focus instead on what's good in their lives.

Many people want to cut back on their drinking--or even stop altogether. But in a culture that glamorizes the cocktail hour, "white wine playdates," and boozy brunches, many people wonder, What would I do instead? This go-to guide has the answer. With 50 simple skills grounded in mindfulness, readers will have the tools they need to soothe stress, improve their emotional and physical health, and feel more energized and empowered in their day-to-day life--without alcohol.

Whether dealing with a breakup or divorce, work-related frustrations, or a global crisis, everyone struggles with difficult thoughts and feelings at some point in their lives. This take-anywhere guide teaches readers about distress tolerance--one of the four core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)--and offers quick, effective tools for managing overwhelming emotions so readers can keep their cool in the face of life's inevitable challenges.

Emotional intelligence is a cornerstone of mental health--and something teens need now more than ever. In this timely book, clinical psychologist Melanie McNally directly addresses the urgent teen mental health crisis with proven-effective skills to help young readers increase emotional awareness, learn to self-regulate, manage anxiety and depression, deepen interpersonal relationships, and boost self-confidence.

There's no one-size-fits-all treatment for excessive worrying, but by assembling an arsenal of tools and skills, you can effectively manage your worry. Worrying Is Optional offers a powerful new approach that combines strategies from metacognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help anxious readers build their own customizable "anti-worrying" toolbox. Using these tools, readers will learn to break free from unhelpful thinking patterns and discover that worrying is, in fact, optional.

People who experience neglect or abuse as children often develop an anxious attachment style--resulting in feelings of abandonment and distrust, troubled relationships, and an unhealthy self-image. In this holistic guide, therapist Jennifer Nurick guides readers with an anxious attachment style through a step-by-step process to feel more secure in themselves; cultivate self-worth, self-trust, and confidence; and approach life and relationships from a place of calm, clarity, and connectedness.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the gold standard for treating a wide variety of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, and stress. In this evidenced-based workbook, CBT expert Michael Tompkins distills the latest research into an easy-to-use workbook to help readers improve overall well-being, and put the life-changing skills of CBT into practice every day.

The DBT Skills Daily Journal merges two powerfully effective treatment strategies--dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and guided journaling--to help readers take a more active role in managing their emotions. In only ten minutes a day, readers will explore the fundamentals of DBT skills--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--and find writing prompts to increase self-awareness, gain control over difficult thoughts and emotions, and reduce unhealthy behaviors. This exciting new method for DBT skills-building will have readers quickly writing their way to greater well-being and a more fulfilling life.

Change doesn't have to happen overnight--it can happen at your own pace. A powerful alternative to "abstinence-only" approaches, the "harm reduction" model outlined in this evidence-based workbook draws on practices from motivational interviewing (MI) to help readers explore their relationship with substance abuse, and find the inspiration needed to move forward and create an individualized recovery plan.

For those days when you feel like you just can't take it anymore, this portable pick-me-up offers in-the-moment microskills--based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)--to help readers accept what they can't change, move past negative thoughts, calm the chaos of emotional overwhelm, and soothe themselves when life feels difficult.

We can't avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond. Based on the self-help hit The Stress-Proof Brain and written by a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert, this journal offers simple, guided prompts to help readers harness the power of positive emotions, "rewire" their emotional response to stress, and cultivate lasting calm.