Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: A Step by Step Guide to Becoming Your OWN Therapist by Managing Stress and Overcoming Depression, Anxiety, A (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781801446426)

Anxiety is a normal part of human existence. In healthy doses, it can provide the motivation needed to make decisions or perform.

Left unchecked, however, it begins to wreak havoc on your psyche, affecting your ability to solve problems and leaving you at the mercy of your limbic brain, which only knows the freeze, fight or flight response.

You don't want to always be at the mercy of your most primal instincts in a sophisticated, modern world, and this book will show you how to master your responses to stressful situations and get rid of bad mental wiring while helping you install good habits that will set you up for massive success.

If you're tired of struggling with anxiety and depression or continually being stressed out by minor things courtesy of your obsessive-compulsive disorder and want to deal with them once and for all, but you don't know where to begin, then this guide was written for you.

In this profoundly insightful and highly actionable guide, CBT expert Gary Scott is going to show you how to get rid of your body's automatic responses to negative situations, which, unfortunately, is harmful and ends up hurting you in the long run.

You're going to discover a toolset of tips, techniques, and strategies that will help you overcome your bad habits, break free of panic attacks, anxiety, and depression, and overcome your obsessive disorders permanently.

Among the insights contained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple, you're going to discover:

• What Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) really is and why you should care
• How to identify and get rid of negative self-talk and thoughts
• The ultimate self-therapy questionnaire to help you better understand your anxiety triggers
• 6 powerful mental reframing questions to ask yourself when dealing with a particularly bad case of negative thoughts
• A simple but effective gratitude exercise worksheet to help you trigger powerful positive emotions
• Causes of negative thinking patterns and how to break the vicious cycle of negativity once and for all
• The four keys to rewiring your thought processes and becoming a powerful force of positivity and self-confidence
• 9 dead-simple, but massively underrated ways to improve your mental health right now
• Step-by-step instructions to help you kick the habit of procrastination into the curb
• Surefire ways to get rid of bad habits without breaking a sweat
• Why using willpower to quit bad habits and negative thinking will fail 94% of the time and a better way to do it
• How to use CBT to overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and paralyzing panic attacks using field-tested strategies

...and tons more

Even if you're a complete beginner to CBT looking for an effective way to use this technique on yourself or a loved one, or a professional practitioner looking to improve your practical knowledge and understanding of this powerful tool, this guide will enhance your ability to analyze and attack your problems from their roots.