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    30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety: from the bestselling anxiety expert
    30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety: from the bestselling anxiety expert
    30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety: from the bestselling anxiety expert
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    30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety: from the bestselling anxiety expert

    By Bev Aisbett

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    From the bestselling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety, with simple daily strategies for work and for home.
    A clear, practical day-by-day workbook, written by experienced counsellor and bestselling author of the classic national bestseller about anxiety, Living with IT, Bev Aisbett, to help people control their anxiety.

    Based on many of the exercises Bev has been teaching and writing about for the past twenty years, the book provides clear, simple daily building blocks to help people manage their anxiety and assist in recovery. Designed to be carried in handbags or backpacks as a daily companion, this is a highly approachable, concise, practical, simple and above all proven method of overcoming anxiety.

    Bev Aisbett is Australia’s leading author in books around managing anxiety. In 1993, after recovering from severe anxiety and depression herself, Bev turned to her artistic talents to create the first of her ground-breaking illustrated self-help books Living with IT- A Survivor's Guide to Panic Attacks, which rapidly became a national bestseller, with over 200,000 copies sold. In 2013, HarperCollins published the fully revised and updated 20th anniversary edition of this classic book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781460709092
    30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety: from the bestselling anxiety expert
    Author

    Bev Aisbett

    Bev Aisbett, a trained counsellor, is the author and illustrator of 17 highly regarded self-help books for sufferers of anxiety and depression, most notably the national bestsellers Living with It: A Survivor's Guide to Panic Attacks and Taming the Black Dog: A Guide to Overcoming Depression. These titles are distributed to health professionals nationwide and have been sold in English in the UK, US and Canada. In total, her books have been published in eight languages, selling more than half a million copies worldwide. Bev developed a unique recovery program, The Art of Anxiety workshop, designed to educate people about anxiety and provide them with the tools with which to build their own recovery, just as Bev herself has done. Launched in 1998, this program has guided thousands of people in the 'art' of effectively managing anxiety and related conditions. She is also a recognised artist, and her soulful paintings have been regularly exhibited in Victoria and Tasmania. For more information and anxiety resources: bevaisbettartofanxiety.com

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    30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety - Bev Aisbett

    INTRODUCTION

    It’s taken me 25 years of practice to show you how to overcome anxiety in 30 days, so you have the easy part!

    Contained in this book is the best of all that has been tried and tested over those 25 years — firstly, through my own journey out of severe anxiety; and, secondly, through steering all my wonderful workshop participants and one-to-one clients on the same path — to freedom from anxiety — by learning how to be their own counsellor and build their own recovery.

    You might think 30 days isn’t much time to overcome what may have been years of struggle, but it’s not all that different from giving up any habit that isn’t good for you. Once you see it in perspective, it only takes one decision to let it go.

    Essentially, all that’s happened is that you’ve had a problem but not the resources to deal with it effectively.

    Overcoming anxiety isn’t about wishful thinking — it’s about employing skilful thinking. Without those skills, your mind can take you wherever it likes and, with anxiety, it can take you to the wildest and (let’s be honest) most ridiculous places!

    Now it’s time for you to take back the reins and gain mastery over your own wellbeing.

    Working your way through the 30 days will help you build the skills to do this one step at a time; and, like building a house, you do it in stages.

    Keep your eyes on the prize and stick with it. If you conk out after Day 10, you’re only going to have the slab and a couple of walls done!

    Look at it this way. You head off on a road trip because you want to get to the destination. Do you get halfway then turn around and go home because you’re frustrated that you haven’t arrived yet?

    And consider this — maybe you haven’t arrived yet because you keep taking detours into things that bog you down!

    You could approach the 30 days and make it hard work, or you could approach it with interest and enthusiasm. But whichever way you do it, just do it, eh? You are going to be living out the next 30 days anyway, so you may as well do something useful with them.

    Making these skills super-effective means using them until they become second nature. You’re getting a taste of how much better you can feel by trying them for 30 days. To make them really stick, ideally you’ll make them a part of your ongoing normal routine.

    Having said that, any one of these 30-day practices could have you turning the corner because each day’s focus contains an insight into yourself.

    It’s not your anxiety that has to change: it’s how you use your anxiety to help you change that leads to healing.

    You might do your 30 days on a daily basis; or you might reserve one day a week, when you don’t have other distractions, to give the practices your full attention.

    It’s up to you. There’s no ‘have to’ about this. But if you choose to undertake the journey over 30 days, you can feel sooo much better in just a month’s time!

    Oh, and by the way — if you are not familiar with ‘IT’ from my previous books, here he is . . .

    I created ‘IT’ to represent that worrisome, critical inner voice that generates anxiety.

    He’s actually not a bad guy; he’s just a little overly-vigilant — but, yes, his presence and messages can seem scary at first till you better understand what’s really going on and how to work with him.

    Over the 30 days, you’ll come to see him in a different and much kinder light.

    My love and best wishes to you,

    Bev XXX

    DAY 1

    You are not

    BROKEN

    You are not being

    PUNISHED

    Your EMOTIONAL BAROMETER needs adjustment. Your THINKING THERMOMETER is overheated.

    Think of a car. If you run it on watered-down petrol, fail to maintain it properly, let it overheat and run it into the ground, would you be surprised if it stopped working properly or started to give you ‘trouble’?

    Well, that’s all that’s happening to you!

    If you have spent a lifetime (consciously or unconsciously) feeding yourself thoughts of DOOM and GLOOM, if you CRITICISED and JUDGED yourself harshly, and/or if you expected the WORST and LAMENTED the past, you were creating a ‘PERFECT STORM’ which translates to ANXIETY. You couldn’t help it — it’s just the way you did things; nonetheless, that’s why you’re ANXIOUS.

    Mystery solved! It’s just STRESS! And you don’t handle stress WELL, do you?

    So please let go of the idea that you have some HORRIBLE, INCURABLE DISEASE that has appeared out of NOWHERE, or that you can do NOTHING about this, or that you are TRAPPED FOREVER!

    You now need to MANAGE your anxiety. And that’s what we’re about to start doing. Are you BEATING YOURSELF UP for having anxiety?

    Are you telling yourself you’re WEAK or STUPID, or that you’ve LOST EVERYTHING because you feel this way?

    Why are you TURNING on yourself? Is that going to help you feel LESS ANXIOUS? NO! So CUT that OUT!

    For Pete’s sake, how could you do it any other way if you hadn’t yet LEARNED how to? Would you expect a person with no carpentry skills to build you a perfect piece of furniture? NO!

    Actually, if you’ve experienced any SHOCKS, LOSSES or TRAUMA in your past (especially in childhood) or if you are HIGHLY SENSITIVE (most anxious people are!), it would be more surprising if you DIDN’T feel anxious!

    Most of us fumble our way through life by TRIAL and ERROR, without any real road map on how to manage our emotional wellbeing.

    Few of us are taught emotional intelligence. We learn from those who have influence in our lives but who are not necessarily IDEAL mentors!

    All that’s happening is that you now have evidence that whatever you’ve been doing hasn’t been WORKING FOR YOU, so it’s time

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