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Drawing on extensive social psychology research, and the author's training and clinical experience in Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, The Anxiety Toolkit offers actionable strategies that anyone can use to manage their anxiety -- both personal and professional. Dr Alice Boyes translates powerful, evidence-based tools used in therapy clinics into tips and tricks you can employ in everyday life. Whether you have an anxiety disorder, or are just anxiety-prone by nature, you’ll discover how anxiety works, strategies to help you cope with common anxiety ‘stuck’ points and a confidence that - anxious or not - you have all the tools you need to succeed in life and work.Contents
Contents : PART 1 : Understanding Yourself and Your Anxiety -- ch. 1. How Anxiety Works -- ch. 2. Understanding the Multidimensional You -- ch. 3. Your Goals -- PART 2 : Your Anxiety Toolkit : Overcoming Your Stuck Points -- ch. 4. Hesitancy : How to Stop Holding Back from the Things You Want to Do -- ch. 5. Rumination : How to Get Your Thinking Unstuck -- ch. 6. Paralyzing Perfectionism : How to Stop Getting Derailed by the Wrong Kinds of High Standards -- ch. 7. Fear of Feedback and Criticism : How to Work with Your Sensitivity to Feedback -- ch. 8. Avoidance : How to Stop Putting Your Head in the Sand About Important Things -- PART 3 : Where to Next? -- ch. 9. Managing Your Anxiety vs. Living Your Life -- ch. 10. Areas Where People Get Tripped Up -- ch. 11. Liking Your Natural Self vs. Tolerating Your Natural Self -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- notes -- index.
