Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

De: Jennifer Shannon LMFT

Narrado por: Jennifer Lund Jorgens

The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious "monkey mind", stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave.

Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branch - endlessly moving from fear to safety. If you are one of the millions of people whose life is affected by anxiety, you are familiar with this process. Unfortunately, you can't switch off the "monkey mind", but you can stop feeding the monkey - or stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear.

Written by psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon, this book shows you how to stop anxious thoughts from taking over using proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques. By following the exercises in this book, you'll learn to identify your own anxious thoughts, question those thoughts, and uncover the core fears at play.

Once you stop feeding the monkey, there are no limits to how expansive your life can feel. This book will show you how anxiety can only continue as long as you try to avoid it. And, paradoxically, only by seeking out and confronting the things that make you anxious can you reverse the cycle that keeps your fears alive.

©2017 Jennifer Shannon (P)2017 Jennifer Shannon

One of the best books on managing anxiety.

If you are looking for a practical and easy to understand book on managing your anxiety, this is it. I have read many books and found this one extremely helpful.

Clear, useful

An easy listen, simple but helpful concepts, based on research, helpful examples and worksheets, clearly written and clearly spoken by narrator. Only negative is the audio compression which results in some static.

Great Book! Very helpful.

Great book and very helpful! Recommend to all who want to improve there lives. I will re-listen to it multiple times.

Great! Great! Great!

It deserves more stars. If you have any issues at all with anxiety, worry, or fear, this book will help you. It nailed everything I've been dealing with. There were times I had to laugh because it seemed she was addressing me personally.... it makes so much sense. I'll read it again and again, and I plan to buy it for a couple of my loved ones. I also have to give credit to the narrator; Jennifer Lund Jorgens was awesome!

Amazing book

Love the break down of the mind and our thoughts that contribute to anxiety. Laid out well

Brings understanding to living a life with Anxiety

Very easy to listen to and much needed in a time in my life where Anxiety had peeked. I found Jennifer's advice on expansive strategies to be insightful and have already began to out into practice.

Perspective Changed!

Wish I would have read this 10, 15, 25 years ago. Very helpful in gaining a healthy perspective of what anxiety is.

Great info that can be put to practice immediately

Excellent book! easy to follow along. the info makes sense. I'm using the tools to help me with my anxiety driving. I already have a new perspective and I realize that I was valuing "safety" over independence and growth. I'm ready to use these tools and conquer the anxiety and embrace the unexpected twist and turns while driving and through life!

USABLE TOOL FOR ANXIETY

Compliments dare response by Bary Macdonah
Consise and too the point.
Must read for anxious guys out there

A Treasure Trove of Techniques for Anxiety

If you had to select just one book for treating your anxiety -- the best comprehensive, all-in-one approach -- this would be your book!
Heather Stone, PhD