Stop Avoiding Stuff : 25 Microskills to Face Your Fears and Do It Anyway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boone, Matthew S.

Contributor:

Gregg, Jennifer.

Coyne, Lisa W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fear.

Avoidance (Psychology).

Acceptance and commitment therapy.

Self-realization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2020.

Oakland : New Harbinger Publications, 2020.

Summary:

To fear is to be human. But fear can also keep us stuck living lives that are stale, stagnant, or downright miserable. Stop Avoiding Stuff offers 25 "microskills" to help readers identify how their fears are holding them back. Drawing on proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), readers will learn how to get comfortable with discomfort, do the very things that scare them, and use values-based action to live their very best lives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Welcome to This Book

Meet Your Avoidance

Part One: Build Awareness of the Moment to Seize the Moment

Microskill 1. Get Curious About the World

Microskill 2. Observe All the Comings and Goings

Microskill 3. Deepen Awareness of Your Inner Experience

Part Two: Feel Your Feelings Without Running Away

Microskill 4. Understand How Your Emotions Work

Microskill 5. Feel Emotions-Don't Fight or Feed Them

Microskill 6. Practice Willingness

Microskill 7. Breathe In and Out of Pain

Part Three: Free Yourself from the Tyranny of Fearful Thoughts

Microskill 8. Step Back and Notice Your Thinking

Microskill 9. Admit the Truth ("I Don't Know")

Microskill 10. Emphasize Workability over Truth

Microskill 11. Let Go of Being Right

Part Four: Shift Your View So It's Bigger Than Your Fears

Microskill 12. Author Your Values

Microskill 13. Make Values a Verb

Microskill 14. Change the Small Stuff

Microskill 15. Take Perspective

Microskill 16. Be the "You" You Want to Be

Microskill 17. One Small, Bold Move at a Time

Part Five: Take Small Steps Toward More Engagement

Microskill 18. Notice Positive Emotions Too

Microskill 19. Practice Gratitude

Microskill 20. Tip Toward the Amazing

Microskill 21. Be Gentle with Yourself

Microskill 22. Spread Lovingkindness to Others

Part Six: Get Through Avoidance Urges and Get Going: On the Spot Strategies

Microskill 23. Five Thinking Traps to Notice and Spring Free From

Microskill 24. Nine Ways to Disentangle from Your Mind

Microskill 25. Ten Strategies for Showing Up with Willingness

Acknowledgments

References

Resources

About the Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781684036066

1684036062

OCLC:

1159636705