The Worrywart's Companion Twenty-One Ways to Soothe Yourself and Worry Smart [Paperback]

Worrywarts are characterized by chronic anxiety, enslavement to out-of-control thoughts, and haranguing themselves to a degree that triggers FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Smart worriers take control of their worry by creating a time and place to do the work of worry, objectively studying their behavior to better understand how to worry effectively, and practicing flexible thinking rather than rut thinking. Smart worriers look for solutions, including partial solutions, and accept what can’t be changed, challenge their worries, practice making under-reactive statements that defuse anxiety rather than fuel it.The Worrywart’s Companionoffers a smorgasbord of tools to help readers become smart worriers, including deep breathing and muscles relaxing exercises, practicing deliberate belly laughing, saying a prayer, doing a good deed, taking a walk, rocking oneself, counting details to keep one’s mind off of the worry, and more. When smart worriers finish the work of worry, they purposefully soothe themselves so that they can move on to other activities.The Worrywart’s Companionhelps disquieted readers integrate soothing activities into their daily lives to keep worry-provoking anxiety in check.

The Worrywart’s Companionis written in a soothing, accepting, gentle, encouraging, inclusive voice, with concepts and techniques being gently conveyed with nonthreatening stories and metaphors. By comparison other books about coping with worry rely on technical jargon, psychobabble, therapizing, and statistics conveying the message that worrying is a psychological “problem”.The Worrywart’s Companionis written in a “lay” voice that does not make the worrywart a neurotic in need of therapy, and in a “timeless” style so that the book will feel current to readers, regardless if they read it today or in future years.

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