Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Heal Your Life E-Book

Maya Faro

• Herausgeber: Your Wellness Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Your Personalized Guide to Mental and Emotional Freedom!

You are just about to discover how to free yourself from anxiety, depression, and negative thoughts with powerful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques!

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers effective and proven strategies that have been successfully used to treat & get rid of anxiety.

The good news? Anyone can master them and use them to achieve a better quality of life.

This is what this guide offers you- a simple, practical approach and effective CBT exercises to help you on your journey to peace, balance, and happiness.

With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you can get to the root of the problem, make friends with your emotions and transform your life. You can change from anxious to assured and be in control of your life and feelings!

Here's a Short Preview of What You Will Find Inside:
-How to Realize That Anxiety Is Trying to Be Your Friend
-Anxiety Is an Emotion: A Whole Body Experience
-Some Triggers You May Not Have Thought Of
-The Holistic Function of Emotions
-Let's See How Anxious You Are and Plot A Course To Being As Anxious As You Choose To Be!
-Learn What Is Causing Your Anxious Response
-Understand Cognitive Behavioral Approaches and Find Out What Your Unconscious Beliefs Are
-Learn the Thinking Styles Which Make You Most Anxious and Turn Them Around
-Black and White Thinking and What to Do About It
-From Anxious to Assured-Your Personal Transformation
-How to Increase Your Positive Emotions
-The Soothing Skills of Mindfulness
+ Practical (workbook-style) Exercises included

You see, CBT doesn't have to be about complicated rituals, expensive retreats, and difficult self-help how-to manuals!

It all comes down to diving deep, making friends with your emotions (both good and bad) and understanding your awareness.

This is what this book is designed to help you with...

In this book, you will find effective techniques to step out of your anxious, stressful thinking and allow your mind to understand CBT so that you can achieve peace and happiness in all areas of your life...

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Heal Your Life!

5 Powerful Steps to Overcome Anxiety & Negative Emotions

By Maya Faro

Copyright Maya Faro©2016, 2023

New Improved Edition 2023

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Contents

Letter from the Author

Chapter 1 – Step 1 – Understanding That Anxiety Is Trying to Be Your Friend

Chapter 2 – Step 2:  Let’s See How Anxious You Are and Plot A Course To Being As Anxious As You Choose To Be!

Chapter 3 –Step 3:  What Is Causing Your Anxious Response?

Chapter 4 – Step 4. Learn the Thinking Styles Which Make You Most Anxious and Turn Them Around

Chapter 5 – Step 5: From Anxious to Assured.  The Transformation

Chapter 6 - Living an Anxiety-Free, Assured Life

Letter from the Author

Anxiety is a tough emotion to feel on a regular basis.  I know personally just how it can cripple you.  Freezing into immobility, unable to go forward to grab opportunities, take a chance or even be a bit optimistic, because of being so scared and worried by ‘what might be’. Almost everyone has a degree of anxiety in their life but, although it is uncomfortable when it arises, it is bearable, and they do move on.  But for others, it takes its toll on their health, happiness, and joy in life. 

That is why I am writing this book.  My mother was one such person.  From a happy, exuberant child she slowly morphed into a frightened, overanxious woman who didn’t dare to do anything too risky – and for her, most actions were risky!  I could see she had a far less happy life than she deserved, and I determined never to be like that.  However, some of the patterns are learnt and there were periods in my life when anxiety attacks were the norm and it took courage and a lot of awareness to change that.  I learnt great deal and began to help others who were suffering through a mixture of anxiety, guilt, shame and worry and they began to change too.

For all of us an important aspect was to learn that anxiety is trying to be your friend.  But, as with friends in your life, you don’t have to live with them!  The secret is not to let it run your life.  And certainly not to let it ruin your life. 

Anxiety is a bit different for everyone.  Different things trigger each of us.  Different thoughts, beliefs and memories play a part.  What is common however is a Vicious Circle of events which is where we will focus.  These events are unhelpful beliefs which swing into action when an outside situation reminds you unconsciously of something that has bothered you in the past. 

These beliefs then trigger off unhelpful emotions (fear, anxiety, worry, anger, agitation) which are all too familiar and make it hard to think logically about the situation.  These emotions then kick-start a series of unhelpful actions, which lead us back round to feeling bad, sad or mad!  And anxious!

What you will do in this book is learn how to turn these Vicious Circles into Virtuous Circles.

Virtuous Circles leave you feeling better about yourself, other people and life.  The secret tool is your self-talk.  We have negative thinking styles which become the way we talk to ourselves and those thinking styles are right at the heart of our anxiety.  The second secret tool is ‘self-soothing’.  Self-soothing skills are also right at the heart of managing Anxiety.  And you will learn just how to develop these skills right here. 

In my own learning, I also found the cognitive behavioral approach gave me a very structured way to work with the Vicious Circle of emotions, thoughts, and actions.  It worked well for me and the clients I had and when we began to build on the Cognitive Behavioral structure by developing our self-soothing skills life became transformed. 

This book is the result of all our learning, hard work (yes, I am being honest, it took blood, sweat and tears to get those Circles spinning the other way) and successes.  The good news is that it can be done; it is being done right now by brave people who want to change. Or sometimes they aren’t brave, they are just desperate because they don’t want another year, another decade... like the last ones where constant, daily struggles and anxiety beset them.  Is that you?

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Do you want to change? 

It’s a very important question because many of us say we want to change but when the steps are in front of us we find that we struggle because deep down, we don’t really think we can do it.  However, I think you DO want to change because you have read this far. 

Take a step by step approach, don’t rush and above all have compassion for yourself as you gently explore this aspect of you.  Smile softly and remind yourself that you have the right to help yourself experience a happy, assured, low stress life and that you believe change is possible.  Because it is!  And most especially it is true of you!

Stick with me, do the activities, keep a journal, practice and.....if you would find it easier to do with another person, find a counsellor who will support you as you change from Anxious to Assured and transform your life. 

Enjoy the journey. I’m right there with you.

Maya Faro