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10 Simple Solutions to Worry
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10 Simple Solutions to Worry

How to Calm Your Mind, Relax Your Body & Reclaim Your Life

Kevin L. Gyoerkoe and Pamela S. Wiegartz
New Harbinger, 2006

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You can indeed be free of worry, even if achieving that goal is not quite as simple as the advice in Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 chart-topping song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Anxiety experts Kevin L. Gyoerkoe and Pamela S. Wiegartz explain their well-grounded approach to understanding worry and its impact on your life, including your health, relationships and productivity. Their upbeat little book packs a powerful one-two punch that illuminates and clarifies the basic elements of “productive” and “unproductive” worry, and then gives you specific directions for managing and even eliminating useless fretting from your life. Using “cognitive behavioral therapy” principles, exercises and techniques, you’ll be able to identify and change the negative thoughts that cause worry and begin to lead a more stress-free, balanced life. getAbstract recommends this small gem as a fine resource for working through your worries.

Take-Aways

  • “Worry affects how you think, behave, feel and relate to others.”
  • The three basic elements of worrying are panicking about today’s impact on the future, foreseeing a worst-case scenario and picturing the future using words without images.
  • “Productive worry” focuses on a dilemma and lists steps toward a solution.

About the Authors

Kevin L. Gyoerkoe, PsyD, is co-director of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center. Pamela S. Wiegartz, PhD, is assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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