The Worry Workbook: Twelve Steps to Anxiety-Free Living

By Les Carter and Frank Minirth

Book Overview

Don't Let Anxiety Rule Your Life

Worry is one of the most common mood disorders in America. Whether you call it stress, tension, frustration, or anxiety, worry can take its toll on health and well-being. While no one is exempt from the circumstances that cause stress and worry, many of us don't realize how easy it is to become locked into its self-perpetuating cycle...or that they can break free.

Do you recognize any of these patterns in your life?

You make major efforts to project a correct image of yourself.You have a hard time letting go of frustrations.Fear or distrust causes you to be cautious or calculated.You worry about whether others will accept you.You push yourself to perform appropriately and to make things right.

The Worry Workbook identifies these trends and many other manifestations of anxiety, giving you effective strategies to battle such negative tendencies. This powerful twelve-step program presents illuminating questions, insightful guidance, comprehensive checklists, and real-life examples to help you:

Learn to distinguish what you can and cannot control, then live accordingly.Recognize the need to "be yourself" and accept yourself for who you are.Communicate effectively rather than hold it all in.Know that each problem has a solution that you can resolve.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0840777485
• ISBN13: 9780840777485
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Educational, Informative, and Inspiring!

This book helped me understand a lot of the reasons for my intense social anxiety. Of course, working through the anxiety with a professional Christian counselor was the biggest help for me personally, but this book was a great addition to the therapeutic process. The book offers great spiritual insight into the agony of anxiety.

Concise and practical.

This book which falls into the self-help category is a well written book that is easy to read for most. While the required writing will be helpful to all, those who are well read in this area of anxiety and worry can benefit just from reading. The most helpful things are the case studies in which one can often see one's own life mirrored. Although the authors are Christians the material is not overtly spiritual or preachy and can be read by people of all faiths or no faith at all. I give it four stars for the authors ability to say plainly, without a lot of psychological jargon, what can truly be of help to others. I am purchasing this extra copy as a gift for a friend.