Your Anxiety Beast and You: A Compassionate Guide to Living in an Increasingly Anxious World

by Eric Goodman, Louise Gardner (Illustrator)

Overview

Just like The Beast in the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, anxiety is an emotion that society initially misjudges as the villain. Your Anxiety Beast and You is a kinder, more compassionate approach for people suffering from anxiety. Rather than living with an enemy inside your mind, you're encouraged to see anxiety for what it really is -an inner hero. It is always trying to protect you from threats, however, it is completely confused about what are true threats in the modern world.

>Learn how to cope with your anxiety and train it to be a better inner-companion through integrating therapeutic methods from compassion-focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Gain an understanding of why society stigmatises anxiety and gain a better understanding of your own anxiety beast with humour and compassion. Your Anxiety Beast and You takes you through step-by-step strategies to cope with the howling of the beast in your mind, the physical effects of anxiety on your body, and then focuses on ways to come up with & teachable moments' for your anxiety to learn that what you fear is not actually a threat.

With over 25 years' experience helping people with anxiety disorders and OCD, Dr Goodman aims to help you make peace with the reality of your anxiety. And then to help you re-focus on making your anxiety a better companion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925820331
Publisher:	Exisle Publishing
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dr Eric Goodman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author, and speaker who specializes in helping people face their social fears and anxiety disorders. In addition to his private practice in San Luis Obispo, California, he runs Social Courage groups and retreats. 

Table of Contents

Author's note 1

Introduction: You have an anxiety beast inside of you 3

Chapter 1 Society's message about anxiety is all wrong 7

…and it's making you suffer

Chapter 2 Getting to know your anxiety beast 35

Your misunderstood inner companion

Chapter 3 Learning to love your anxiety beast 59

A compassionate approach to anxiety

Chapter 4 Beastly behaviour problems 81

When anxiety turns phobic

Chapter 5 How to talk so your beast will listen 105

Responding to anxious thoughts

Chapter 6 What to do (and not do) when your anxiety beast tantrums 127

Dealing with intense anxiety levels

Chapter 7 Training your anxiety beast 153

Maximizing your exposure therapy using an inhibitory learning approach

Chapter 8 Travelling the road of life with your inner anxious companion 187

Where do you want to go?

Acknowledgments 193

Bibliography and related recommended readings 196

Index 203