Rewire Your Anxious Brain for Teens
On sale
28th May 2020
Price: £14.99
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781684033768
It’s time to retrain your brain! In this go-to guide for teens, four anxiety experts offer tangible tips and tools
you can use every day to rewire your anxious brain; manage fears, stress, and worry; and get back to living
your life.
When you’re feeling anxious, it can seem like the whole world is crashing in around you. Your heart starts racing, your
thoughts feel jumbled, and you may feel like something terrible is going to happen, or worse. You aren’t alone. In fact,
millions of teens experience anxiety. The good news is that there are proven-effective tools you can use now to take
control of your anxiety so you can focus on the stuff you love. This book will guide the way. Drawing on powerful cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), neuroscience, mindfulness and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), this book will show you the ten most effective methods for “rewiring” your anxious brain. You’ll learn:
·How to calmly observe your anxiety
·What feeds your anxiety, and how you can “starve” it instead
·Guided meditations for overcoming anxious thoughts
·Strategies to help you balance your emotions when fears and worries show up
·How to deal with uncertainty, perfectionism and procrastination
Most importantly, you’ll learn that you are stronger than your anxiety and you have the power to take control of your
fears. Let’s face it-being a teen today is stressful and sometimes scary but if you’re ready to put anxiety in its place and start focusing on the things that matter to you the most, this much-needed guide can help get you started.
you can use every day to rewire your anxious brain; manage fears, stress, and worry; and get back to living
your life.
When you’re feeling anxious, it can seem like the whole world is crashing in around you. Your heart starts racing, your
thoughts feel jumbled, and you may feel like something terrible is going to happen, or worse. You aren’t alone. In fact,
millions of teens experience anxiety. The good news is that there are proven-effective tools you can use now to take
control of your anxiety so you can focus on the stuff you love. This book will guide the way. Drawing on powerful cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), neuroscience, mindfulness and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), this book will show you the ten most effective methods for “rewiring” your anxious brain. You’ll learn:
·How to calmly observe your anxiety
·What feeds your anxiety, and how you can “starve” it instead
·Guided meditations for overcoming anxious thoughts
·Strategies to help you balance your emotions when fears and worries show up
·How to deal with uncertainty, perfectionism and procrastination
Most importantly, you’ll learn that you are stronger than your anxiety and you have the power to take control of your
fears. Let’s face it-being a teen today is stressful and sometimes scary but if you’re ready to put anxiety in its place and start focusing on the things that matter to you the most, this much-needed guide can help get you started.
Reviews
"Rewire Your Anxious Brain for Teens is an excellent resource for teens who want to conquer anxiety. Packed with useful tools and practical suggestions, the authors bring together the best of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), neuroscience, and mindfulness in a clearly written, comprehensive workbook. Read this book, practice the strategies within, and you will rewire your brain!"—Kevin L. Gyoerkoe, PsyD, director of The Anxiety and OCD Treatment Center in Charlotte, NC; and coauthor of 10 Simple Solutions to Worry
"For teens experiencing the challenge of anxiety, this book is a treasure trove of valuable tools, presented in an effective and easy-to-understand style. What makes this book especially valuable for teens is the format: the reader is prompted and encouraged to bring powerful tools on board through specific exercises, many of which take only a few minutes. Specific tools empower the reader to:•understand and befriend the experience of anxiety•become a 'positive coach' for oneself•practice mindfulness and meditation•build resilience•learn to 'dial down' intense emotions•overcome procrastination•enhance one's ability to focus and to move toward fulfilling goals•overcome social anxiety"—Neal Sideman, self-help advocate, internationally known coach and teacher for people recovering from anxiety disorder, member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and cochair of the ADAA Public Education Committee
"Rewire Your Anxious Brain for Teens is a refreshing approach to helping young people understand anxiety and how to master it. By often offering two examples of teens with anxiety at a time, the reader is able to clearly see the difference between skillful and unskillful approaches to anxiety. Rather than talk down to teens, the authors appeal to teen skepticism with credible reasoning backed by science. The book is full of practical see-for-yourself exercises with easy-to-understand explanations of how these new skills literally impact the brain. I learned a lot that I wish I had known when I was a teenager."—Jon Hershfield, MFT, director of The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore, and author of When a Family Member Has OCD and Overcoming Harm OCD