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A warm and practical guide to coping with anxiety--and finding ways to laugh anyway.
Got anxiety? Join the club. More specifically, join the Anxiety Sisterhood. Abs and Mags, aka the Anxiety Sisters, have spent the past thirty years figuring out how to outsmart their anxiety-ridden brains, and the last five years sharing what they've learned with a growing online community of like-minded sufferers who are looking for ways to cope better every day.
Whether you're looking to better understand and manage panic, worry, grief, stress, or phobias, or just want to pause the endless spin cycle in your head, you'll find real-world, research-based techniques, exercises, and insights--without the clinical, confusing, one-size-fits-all approach that isn't so helpful when your mind is racing, your triggers are in overdrive, and you just want to get back to feeling normal . . . ish.
Most of all, this is a handbook for fighting Shrinking World Syndrome--that isolating, lonely feeling that comes from letting your anxiety run the show. The stories and suggestions in this book will remind you that you're not alone. You don't have to eliminate anxiety from your life in order to feel okay . . . and, yes, even happy.
Author Notes
Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Sarachek have not only walked the walk, they have huddled, heaved, hurled, sweated, palpitated, and hyperventilated their way through life. They are the founders of The Anxiety sisters, a worldwide online community that provides emotional support and evidence-based strategies for anxiety sufferers. A professor of communication and a social worker, respectively, Abs and Mags write an award-winning blog, host a popular podcast, and conduct workshops, retreats, and coaching services.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Greenberg and Sarachek, of the Anxiety Sisters blog and podcast, offer practical advice for preventing phobias and thoughts of disaster from interfering with daily life in this useful primer. Using easy-to-understand language, the authors explain how, when the limbic system (which deals with emotions and memory) is in overdrive, normal brain function becomes disrupted and neurons don't communicate well, which makes it difficult to think clearly. With compassion and common-sense, Greenberg and Sarachek suggest science-based methods to ease anxiety, including learning to "ride the wave" of distress knowing that one has endured attacks before or "naming the monster" (a visualization technique intended to make fears more tangible and manageable). They also suggest "Spin Kit" ideas for thinking through negative thoughts, which include doing activities such as knitting to help ground, distract, and ease symptoms. For anyone with butterflies in their belly or those living with an anxiety-prone family member, this will be an accessible guide to getting one's anxiety under control. (Sept.)Correction: Maggie Sarachek's last name was misspelled in an earlier version of this review.
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. xiii |
Authors' Notes | p. xvii |
1 Anxious and Happy Are Friends | p. 1 |
2 Are You an Anxiety Sister? | p. 17 |
3 Brain Matters | p. 33 |
4 Labels Are for Jeans, Not Anxiety | p. 43 |
5 How Did This Happen? | p. 65 |
6 The Fallout | p. 87 |
7 Riding the Wave | p. 99 |
8 It's Hard to Be Happy When You're Gasping for Air | p. 115 |
9 Don't Believe Everything You Think | p. 127 |
10 The Spin Cycle | p. 141 |
11 Better Living Through Chemistry | p. 161 |
12 East Side Story | p. 191 |
13 Anxiety Management Gems | p. 207 |
14 We're All in This Together | p. 229 |
15 A Happy Note | p. 243 |
Acknowledgments | p. 257 |
Notes | p. 261 |
Index | p. 273 |