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Discover practical strategies to permanently overcome stress and worry from a scientist with first hand experience on how to truly thrive.
Knock fear out of the driver's seat and take control of your own life through simple, proven strategies.
There always seems to be plenty to worry about, and worry we do--from nagging concerns to full-blown anxiety. It's time to stop worrying and instead create a more peaceful, powerful, and purposeful life.
Kathryn Tristan's hands-on, solution-oriented book empowers you to break free from constant fear, worry, and anxiety. She shows how to eliminate automatic doomsday thinking and take back control of your own life. This no-nonsense approach draws from a variety of disciplines to offer a comprehensive guide for rewiring your brain that includes restructuring how you think, easy relaxation exercises, simple lifestyle changes, and transformative spiritual practices. Through personal anecdotes and inspiring true stories, including self-assessment quizzes and the latest science, you'll discover the secrets to a worry-free existence, including how to:
* recognize and eliminate inner trash talk and negative thinking;
* create outlook makeovers to slash stress and worry;
* master sure-fire worry busters;
* and discover calm during chaos.
Author Notes
Kathryn Tristan has written and coauthored more than 250 articles in leading health publications and prestigious scientific journals. She is committed to sharing her simple but powerful strategies to help others help themselves. She lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she is a research scientist on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine.
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Library Journal Review
Ford (psychiatry, Univ. of Connecticut) and leadership coach Wortmann base their advice on the notion that stressful events trigger a change in the brain itself, and that they can be managed. They teach the average person how to prepare for stressful life events through preventative actions-standing back, orienting, and self-checking-and pave the way for a productive response to the stressor. Tristan (psychiatry, Univ. of Texas) writes to those who are handicapped by worry and anxiety. Using case studies, quizzes, and research, she presents a four-step program (being aware of choices, changing one's outlook, risking to recover, and embracing one's spirit) to eliminate worry. The books overlap in describing causes and techniques, but Ford and Wortmann include more about the biology of the brain and the neurological components for change. Tristan brings together the underlying principles of cognitive behavior therapy, spiritual and relaxation practices, and diet and lifestyle changes to master stress. Ford and Wortmann are a bit more clinical, but will be readily absorbed by the average person who needs assistance with tension. Tristan's work is friendlier to general readers and will help those on all gradations on the stress continuum. One can't lose with either. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Introduction: How This Book Can Help You | p. vii |
1 Understanding Why We Worry | p. 1 |
2 The Worry Spectrum | p. 13 |
Chapter Summary | p. 28 |
CORE Concept 1 I Always Have Choices | |
3 Waking Up to Your Hidden Powers: Awareness and Choice | p. 33 |
Chapter Summary | p. 54 |
New Strategies: What Was I Thinking? | p. 55 |
CORE Concept 2 I Choose to Change My Outlook | |
4 How You Think about Anything Determines How You Experience Everything | p. 61 |
Chapter Summary | p. 75 |
New Strategies: Clear Your Clutter | p. 76 |
5 Outlook Makeover: Terribilizing versus Possibilizing | p. 79 |
Chapter Summary | p. 90 |
New Strategies: Power Up arid Worry Down | p. 91 |
6 Outlook Makeover: Redefining Perfection | p. 93 |
Chapter Summary | p. 102 |
New Strategies: Releasing from Perfection | p. 103 |
7 Outlook Makeover: Blame, Anger, and Guilt | p. 105 |
Chapter Summary | p. 130 |
New Strategies: Building Inner Power | p. 131 |
CORE Concept 3 Risking Helps Me Recover | |
8 Risking Expands Your Comfort Zone | p. 137 |
Chapter Summary | p. 161 |
New Strategies: If It's Gonna Be, It's Up to Me | p. 162 |
CORE Concept 4 I Embrace My Spirit | |
9 Embracing Your Spirit: Doorway to Healing | p. 167 |
Chapter Summary | p. 179 |
New Strategies: What's the Message? | p. 179 |
Putting It All Together | |
10 Changing Your Life: Co-Creating Your Future | p. 185 |
Chapter Summary | p. 193 |
New Strategies: The Five List | p. 194 |
Acknowledgments | p. 197 |
Appendix A Quick Help for Anxiety Attacks | p. 199 |
Appendix B Bouncing Back from Anxiety | p. 201 |
Appendix C What If I Need More Help? | p. 203 |