Alice Boyes - The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points

Praise for

THE ANXIETY TOOLKIT

The Anxiety Toolkit provides quick, simple and practical tips that the anxious person can use now.

Robert L. Leahy, PhD, director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy

In this innovative handbook, Dr. Boyes identifies common habits that underlie different types of anxiety. She then offers clear strategies to drop the fight and become more gentle with ourselves. If anxiety has limited your life in any way, this book is an excellent place to start the healing process.

Christopher Germer, PhD, clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, coeditor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

The Anxiety Toolkit is an investment in wellness. Based on years of clinical practice and research, Dr. Alice Boyes has written a real-world roadmap for all of us who struggle with making decisions and feeling stuck.

Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness of Pursuit and The $100 Startup

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boyes, Alice.

The anxiety toolkit : strategies for fine-tuning your mind and moving past your stuck points / Alice Boyes.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-698-15475-9

1. AnxietyPopular works. 2. AnxietyTreatmentPopular works. I. Title.

RC531.B68 2015

616.85'22dc23 2014040065

First edition: March 2015

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A note on the client examples presented here:

Client examples included in this book are composites of multiple clients, and details have been changed to protect peoples privacy. References to my clinical practice are based on my work in New Zealand from 2008 to 2013.

Disclaimer:

The content of this book is intended for general information purposes only and not as a substitute for individual therapy. Not all of the advice may be right for you.

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