Kirubakaran Athmanathan
The Worry Trick
My Rating
Date Read
December 17, 2019
Pages
232
My Notes
This is one of the most helpful books I’ve ever read. There are several very practical techniques that I regularly use now.
- identifying the worry by listening for the “what if” statements
- repeating the worry 25 times in front of a mirror
- this one is shockingly powerful! i’d have something looping and looping in my mind, and once I say it out loud in the mirror, something unclenches and the worry no longer bothers me!
- so counter-intuitive, as the author says!
- aha
- acknowledge and accept
- humor the worry
- activity
I listened to the audiobook (narrated by Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.) actually, and it was so enjoyable.
About This Book
Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply "tricked" you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all. Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this book is designed to help you break the cycle of worry. Worry convinces us there's danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode—even when there is no danger. The techniques in this book, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, shows you how to see the trick that underlies your anxious thoughts, and how avoidance can backfire and make anxiety worse. If you’re ready to start observing your anxious feelings with distance and clarity—rather than getting tricked once again—this book will show you how.