Dr. Michelle Bengtson - Breaking Anxietys Grip: How to Reclaim the Peace God Promises

As a woman who has fought anxiety most of her life, Ive come to believe if youre in a battle, its not a reason for guilt or shame. It simply means youre a warrior. Ive also learned having the right weapons helps me win. Breaking Anxietys Grip will encourage and equip you to defeat fear and experience more victory.

Holley Gerth , bestselling author of What Your Heart Needs for the Hard Days

My listeners love to hear from Dr. Bengtson because she expresses empathy and understanding and provides practical and specific solutions to the daily anxieties that can plague us. This book not only turns our focus back to the Bible but applies its timeless wisdom to our lives in a very real and pragmatic way; it is truly a road map toward peace.

Jeff Angelo , talk show host, Newsradio 1040 WHO, iHeartMedia

Life is hard. At times, worry and fear seem the only logical response. But there is a peace that passes understanding available if well just reach out and take it. In Breaking Anxiety s Grip , Dr. Michelle Bengtson offers expert advice thats both practical and biblical, helping us navigate lifes difficulties as we tap into the promises of God.

Joanna Weaver , author of Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life

If youve ever been strangled by anxiety, if youve awakened at night in a panic, if worry has become your constant, frustrating companion, then find the hope, instruction, and wisdom you need in the pages of Breaking Anxiety s Grip by Dr. Michelle Bengtson. As a therapist, she brings astute counsel. As someone who has endured many stressors, she brings the wisdom that comes from endurance. And as a fellow struggler, she brings empathy. In these pages, you will find help and hope.

Mary DeMuth , author of Healing Every Day: A - Day Devotional Journey

If you are looking to eradicate the power that anxiety has over your life, you might consider a good counselor. Or you might look for someone whos been through what youre facing now. Perhaps youd seek out a trusted friend. What if I told you that you could have all three? Thats what you get in Breaking Anxietys Grip . Dr. Michelle Bengtson is all of thatand more.

Jennifer Dukes Lee , author of It s All Under Control and The Happiness Dare

Reading Dr. Michelle Bengtsons book Breaking Anxiety s Grip is like talking to a trusted friend. Her voice throughout the book will calm and reassure you in lifes daily difficult challenges. Worry, anxiety, and fear are plaguing America, and Michelle deals with the topic head-on while giving both a clinical and biblical perspective for the common cold of mental health.

Marta Greenman , Words of Grace & Truth, GraceAndTruthRadio.World

Nowhere else have I found an author to speak to the common struggles with worry, anxiety, and fear with as much professional authority, personal insight, care, and compassion. Reading Breaking Anxiety s Grip is like having both a trusted friend and a personal counselor take you by the hand while you rely on Gods Word and his faithful promises to victoriously overcome!

Amy Elaine Martinez , host of Real Victory Radio , author of Becoming a Victory Girl , and writer at amyelaine . com

Every once in a while we come across a book that looks at everyday issues from a new and enlightened vantage point and helps remove the blinders that have kept us enslaved to problems. Breaking Anxiety s Grip is one of those books. We have all suffered from the effects of worry, anxiety, and fear at some point. Dr. Bengtson takes a unique but biblically based perspective on how to rid ourselves of their slavery in our lives and live from a position of peace. This will be a book to share with family, friends, church leaders, and counselors so that together we can break the hold anxiety has in our lives.

Michelle Wilson , senior producer of The 700 Club

We live in a culture of strife and disagreement. Yet everyone can agree that life is stressful and anxiety is our constant companion. Dr. Michelle Bengtson tackles these issues head-on and gives readers the tools to do the same thing. The pages of this book are filled with gentle insight and tough love that point us to the One who gives the peace we all crave. This will be a book that will become dog-eared with love and one Ill pass on again and again.

Edie Melson , director of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference

In Breaking Anxiety s Grip , the truth of Gods Word coupled with the perspective of a medical professional sheds light on a peace that is possible. This how-to book is conversational and relational, backed by clinical facts and biblical truth. The peace of God transcends our understanding, but that doesnt mean it isnt possible. Breaking anxietys grip really is a process that requires some action on our part. Michelle gives us the steps to take to reclaim that peace and gently takes our hand and walks through it with us.

Eryn Hall , director of Declare and author at mamahall.com

Breaking Anxiety s Grip is a great encouragement and tool for those who reside in the what ifs. Dr. Michelle Bengtson shows her readers how to move from worry, anxiety, and fear to hope, trust, and peace. This book offers biblically sound and effective practices to loosen anxietys grip in order to find peace in the palm of Gods hand.

Lori Wildenberg , speaker and author of five books, including The Messy Life of Parenting

In Breaking Anxiety s Grip , Dr. Bengtson enhances the current work on the topics of worry, anxiety, and fear by adding an intentionally spiritual approach while not ignoring the contributing physical and psychosocial factors. I love the reflective application questions given at the end of each chapter and am excited to add this title to our counseling centers list of faith-based recommendations.

Michelle Nietert , MA, LPC-S; clinical director of Community Counseling Associates, Living Magazine s Best Therapy Center

Dr. B has done it again. Laced with personal experiences that illustrate the truth of Gods Word over the enemys lies, which stir up worry, anxiety, fear, and doubt, this message is timely and profound. What you hold in your hands is a proven strategy to be victorious over the schemes of Satan in your life. A death blow to the kingdom of darkness, Breaking Anxiety s Grip is a resource designed to set the captives free from the bondage of fear in all its facets. Buy a dozen copies, one for yourself and eleven to give away to those you love the most. You wont regret it!

Athena Dean Holtz , publisher at Redemption Press, author advocate, publishing pioneer

In an age where anxiety abounds, Dr. Michelle Bengtson gently takes the hands of readers on a step-by-step journey to find freedom from fear through the power of Gods perfect love. Her authenticity is refreshing. Her insight is empowering. My own aha! moments came one after another. In a wordWOW! For anyone ready to cultivate the courage to become all God created you to be and live in his peace, this is your book.

Aliene Thompson , Treasured Ministries

As a diagnosed bipolar for twenty years, my one earnest prayer has been, God, please send more workers to the mental-health field! (Matt. 9:37). That prayer is being answered through people like Dr. Michelle Bengtson, a board certified neuropsychologist with thirty years of professional experience in mental health who also understands from her own personal struggles and revelation. To pastors, spouses, teachers, parents, principals, psychologists, and psychiatrists: this book is a resource for your leadership AND a gift for anyone under your care struggling and searching for a breakthrough. God bless you, Michelle, for writing this! Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayers!

Heather Palacios , Church by the Glades, WondHerful.com