10 Simple Solutions to Worry: How to Calm Your Mind, Relax Your Body, and Reclaim Your Life [Paperback]

Kevin L. Gyoerkoe (Author), Pamela S. Wiegartz (Author)

Book Description

Series: 10 Simple Solutions | Publication Date: December 1, 2006

We all worry about things from time to time, but some of us just can’t seem to stop expecting the worst—even when our expectations are very unlikely to occur. This condition, chronic worry, is disruptive all by itself, and it can lead to other, more serious anxiety problems. This little book—the fifth in New Harbinger’s Ten Simple Solution series—offers a handful of easy and effective techniques for getting rid of worry once and for all.

Drawing on powerful psychotherapeutic techniques, 10 Simple Solutions to Worry is a succinct resource of cognitive-behavioral techniques for controlling worry and reducing stress. Exercises include self-assessments, motivation builders, relaxation training, and cognitive restructuring. After identifying and changing the negative thoughts that result in worry, you’ll learn to replace worry behaviors with other, more positive and constructive activities.

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Two anxiety experts team up to provide readers with these ten simple, engaging, proven-effective cognitive behavioral strategies to combat excessive worry, an energy-sapping condition that often leads to more serious anxiety-related problems.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572244658
• ISBN-13: 978-1572244658
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent on ALL Levels, March 6, 2008

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This is a beautifully written book that could be used by many authors as an effective blueprint for how to write a book. Unlike so many books that seem to drone on and on, this book is short and to the point and provides the reader all the information they need, but no more, making it a pleasure to read.

The book is not just for people who worry. It is a must read for anyone that suffers from excessive stress or anxiety. This is not your typical useless "self-help" book that promises that reading it will reveal secrets that will give you an easy fix. Rather, it empowers the reader with useful knowledge and concrete examples and tools for how to learn to think and behave in ways which can result in a life free of excessive worry and stress. And as the book will teach you, this can very much be learned.

The book uses a two pronged approach:

1. Each chapter explains a concept regarding how we think or behave and how that thinking or behaving impacts worry and anxiety. Each is beautifully explained and as soon as I would have a question it was as if the authors anticipated it and answered it. I never found their handling of a subject to be less than crystal clear.

2. Each chapter than concludes with real world exercises and tools to help successfully understand the type of thinking and behaving addressed in the chapter, and gives insight into how to change them in a way that results in a happier life.

I'm normally a skeptic when it comes to most self-help books, but I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's a rare little gem.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Helpful, December 1, 2006

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For years I have been searching for a straight-forward and helpful resource to recommend to my patients who suffer from anxiety and worry. Now I finally have that resource with this great book. It provides sound, yet clear to understand advice on how to gain control over an issue that plagues so many people.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accessible and effective!, February 15, 2007

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I would reccommend this book to everyone I know. It takes the 'worry' out of worry by describing our innermost fears, showing us that others share them, and then outlining practical ways to deal with them.