To help reduce social anxiety, therapy can be great, workbooks can be great…therapy plus a workbook? Potentially very powerful, very effective. Managing Social Anxiety is part of the “Treatments That Work” series, which is almost entirely workbook-with-therapist friendly. Take a look.
http://www.anxietyla.com/2011/11/03/managing-social-anxiety/
From the folks who brought you The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, take a look at Your Life on Purpose. Described by one Amazon reviewer this way: The book invites you on a voyage of rediscovery of your life values. Along the way, you will learn to navigate potential values conflict and to identify [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2011/05/30/your-life-on-purpose/
Keeping Calm In An Anxious Age (Medical News Today). Americans’ danger detectors are cranked up way too high these days, but we don’t have to be held hostage by our anxiety, according to a new book on coping with stress by a Northwestern Medicine psychologist. The book, by Northwestern’s Mark Reinecke, is titled “Little Ways to Keep [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/12/05/keep-calm-and-carry-on/
Book of the day: Stress Less, Live More by Richard Blonna. The book explores how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help reduce stress by getting you focused away from your anxiety and on your life as you want to live it. Bullet pointed highlights: Learn to mindfully accept what can’t be changed Find peace and [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/11/07/stress-less-live-more/
Book of the day: Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety, by Kelly Wilson and Troy Dufrene. From an Amazon rave: For any of you who have ever been anxious–whether you suffer from an anxiety disorder or struggle under the weight of job stress, parental responsibilities, and the speed [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/09/12/a-guide-to-life-liberated-from-anxiety/
New at the AnxietyLA Bookstore, a collection of insomnia books and workbooks, including Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep, briefly reviewed here by Beth Cholette, PhD. Excerpt: [The authors] start by reviewing sleep-incompatible behaviors–for example, staying in bed when you can’t sleep–and then describing specific techniques to counteract these problematic patterns. They continue to [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/09/07/insomnia-workbooks/
Book of the day: The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook, by Martin Anthony and Richard Swanson. The first 53 pages are up at Google Books. Here’s the pitch from the publisher, via Amazon: There’s nothing wrong with being shy. But if social anxiety keeps you from forming relationships with others, advancing in your education or your [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/09/05/the-shyness-social-anxiety-workbook/
Book of the day: The Feeling Good Handbook, by David Burns. This is the workbook companion to Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. The therapy does help you feel good, but at this point, it’s not so new–it’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). From a therapist on Amazon: I read this book as a person with [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/08/23/the-feeling-good-handbook/
Book of the day: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. Book and CD gently walk you toward an everyday mindfulness practice. An Amazon reviwer says: Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein have done a great job in making the art of mindfulness and its cultivation through MBSR practices accessible to a [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/08/11/a-mindfulness-based-stress-reduction-workbook/
Book of the day: The Anti-Anxiety Workbook, by Martin Antony and Peter Norton. Why so many workbooks as books of the day? Because good anxiety treatment involves not just sitting back and reading but actually doing. Worksheets and exercises like the ones contained in the workbooks featured here are a great place to start. Here’s [...]
http://www.anxietyla.com/2010/08/06/the-anti-anxiety-workbook/
