The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem

by Risa Williams, Jennifer Whitney (Illustrator), Amanda Way (Illustrator)

Overview

Anxiety can feel like a huge number of different things to a huge variety of people. No matter the experience, they all have one thing in common: feeling anxiety is never fun. If you're looking to manage your anxious feelings and reduce your stress, this is the book for you.

Written by a therapist who specializes in helping people navigate anxiety, the chapters contain 25 creative tools specifically designed to help reduce anxiety in five key areas: stress, social anxiety, anxious thoughts, self-esteem and the future.

The tools draw on CBT, mindfulness, narrative therapy, positive psychology and more, and every single one is focused on giving practical advice and simple steps that you can take today to reduce your anxiety and boost your self-esteem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787757714
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	06/21/2021
Series:	Ultimate Toolkits for Psychological Wellbeing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Risa Williams is a licensed clinical therapist with a practice in Los Angeles, specializing in time management tools and goal-setting strategies. She is the award-winning author of the self-help books, The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit, The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit and The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit (JKP Books). She is also a psychology professor, a mom, the podcast host of "The Motivation Mindset" and a writer. Learn more at risawilliams.com or by following @risawilliamstherapy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Anxiety Coin 9

Chapter 1 When You're Feeling Stressed Out 13

The Positive Self-Talk Charger 13

The Rack Focus 22

The Stress Ruler 25

The Task Extractor 31

The Level 42

The Energy Meter 48

Chapter 2 When You're Feeling Social Anxiety 55

The Social Battery 55

The Battery Recharger 59

The Social Task Extractor 62

The Social Scenario Level 66

Chapter 3 When You're Having Anxious Thoughts 73

The Fun Distraction Sifter 79

The Embarrassment Surfboard 85

The Brain Bounce 89

The Social Media Sifter 93

The Nametag 96

The Shrink Ray 101

The Train Ticket 104

Chapter 4 When You're Feeling Low Self-Esteem 109

The Watering Can 109

The Victory Wail 113

The Video Game 116

The Appreciation Glasses 121

The Mini Self-Hypnosis 125

Chapter 5 When You're Worried About the Future 130

The Worry Balloon 130

The Story Pen 133

The Future Victory Wall 137

Anxiety Support Resources 142

References 143

Editorial Reviews

Williams' book is filled with imaginative, creative ways to manage all sorts of anxiety with concrete, clear strategies you can try. It's an easy-going read, and it has thoughtful personal antidotes that help make understanding anxiety relatable, and worksheets that help provide insight. I highly recommend this book!

Eden Byrne

Anxiety, like enthusiasm, is contagious. If you don't want to spread it to those you lead, you need to overcome your own. Williams' book offers easy instructions for doing that. And who can't use some anxiety-reducing advice in the workplace these days?

Forbes Magazine

Can coping with anxiety really be fun? With this anxiety toolkit, it certainly is! Tools such as Task-Extractors, Brain Bouncing, and Shrink-Rays make scientifically grounded strategies easily digestible, creative, and even entertaining. Risa Williams has transformed an overwhelming chore of tackling anxiety into succinct, light-hearted, actionable strategies that are useful at any age.

Erica Curtis

As a creative professional, I appreciate these easy-to-use tools that can be applied to so many daily stressful situations!

Camille Brown

Williams helps us find the fun in combating our daily anxieties. It's a brilliant approach. Her tools spark our creativity and help us realize that small shifts in our thinking can lower our stress levels. Her sharing of personal anecdotes makes her relatable and puts the reader at ease. This is the sort of self-help book that makes you feel like you can truly change your life and smile while doing it.

Ezra Werb

Everyone is anxious sometimes, so everyone can benefit from The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit. The exercises are simple, practical and immediate and the neuroscience nuggets tell you how they work. The affirmations aren't pie-in-the sky daydreams. They're statements you make come true with the help of Risa Williams' toolbox.

Christina Elston

After reading Risa Williams' The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, I found myself immediately underlining and highlighting various tidbits of her advice. Every day I read her book hungrily with a devotion to knowing that she is helping me have a better experience of myself. Her book has made my life much easier! If you're looking for practical solutions for anxiety, purchase this book!

Miguel Chavez

Risa Williams is the ultimate battery recharger. In The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, she provides a step-by-step roadmap to transmute anxiety into accomplishment and fear into action. Loaded with neuroscience nuggets these exercises and short chapters provide practical advice for increasing confidence and writing yourself a new narrative.

Mike Sonksen