Reduce Stress and Anxiety Levels with Journaling

Writing about struggles and feelings may help you cope with the global pandemic.

Posted April 22, 2020

By The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

Evidence-Based Living

At Psychologytoday.com

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/202004/reduce-stress-and-anxiety-levels-journaling

Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick

February 2020

By David A. Carbonell, PhD (Author), Martin N. Seif, PhD (Foreword)

From Amazon.com: “It’s time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Drawing on the same cutting-edge psychology presented in author David Carbonell’s The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers ten powerful “counter-intuitive” strategies to help you put worry in its place—anytime, anywhere.

Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question our decisions and ourselves, worry about the future, and it fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. But what if we understood that anxiety is merely a trick of the mind, trying to convince us we’re in danger? Anxiety is like a magician behind the curtain, playing subtle tricks on us to convince us that we’re in danger when we’re not. When we understand this, we can observe our anxious feelings with some distance.

Based on the author’s popular book, The Worry Trick, this helpful and humorous guide identifies the “trick” of chronic anxiety, and provides the ten most powerful techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you respond differently to panic, anxiety, worry, and phobias. Once you learn to respond differently to the worry trick, you’ll be able to break the cycle of chronic anxiety for good.

Instead of trying to “manage” your anxiety or push anxious thoughts away—techniques that you’ve probably already discovered don’t work—the ten powerful strategies outlined in this guide will empower you to actually change how you respond to worry and anxiety, so you can get your life back!”

Also see his website:  http://www.anxietycoach.com

Childhood Trauma and Its Link to Depression and Anxiety

Childhood Trauma and Its Link to Depression and Anxiety by [Hosier MSc, David]

By David Hosier MSc  (2014)

From Amazon.com: “The link between childhood trauma and the subsequent development of depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions is beyond dispute. In this eBook, psychologist David Hosier MSc, who himself suffered severe childhood trauma, and, subsequently, depression and anxiety leading to hospitalizations, electroconvulsive shock treatment and near death by suicide, examines this link through a series of comprehensive, yet easily digestible, articles. David Hosier has had many years experience as a teacher, lecturer and researcher ; he was educated at the University of London, Goldsmith’s College and currently lives in Brighton, UK.”