The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear and Reclaim Your Life (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

I had the option to do photocopies pages with my therapist, or to just purchase the whole book. I went for the second option, and this book didn't disappoint! It's great for reflection, and to look back on every now and again to remind yourself that it's mental illness talking, not everyone else.

Readable, concise, direct. Anyone experiencing anxiety in social situations will benefit from this material, and the exercises are easy to follow.

I could not get any value out of this book. I found ACT with Anxiety by Richard Sears much more useful.

Ordered to help with my therapy sessions for my anxiety and other issues. I think this will be a great tool in helping me learn proper ways of overcoming my anxiety and understanding it from a cognitive perspective.

Using this book hasn't yet made me do a complete 180 or anything in my social life or with shyness, but it has helped me do exactly what it says - accept what it is and use my mind to sort of "bend" the emotions away from the center of my consciousness to concentrate on the moment. I think this is one of those tools that you can keep coming back to for support and to retrain your mind.

There's so much to consider here. For a lay person, it is extremely well organized and seems to get right to the core of what many shy people experience with such difficulty. IAnd I've never seen this information laid out all together. It's great to know how to deal with it for yourselves and others. I love the work book approach and find it very helpful for me and my family.

This workbook gives great insight into how to overcome anxiety and shyness in any social situation. It is extremely well written, and gives detailed suggestions into how to overcome various hangups that we might have in getting along with others. The format is one that is very easy to follow, and put into practice. Well done, Jan.

I liked very much the usefull techniques but would be better with some training line. All the techniques worked for me although it was meant to real hard shyness, i felt good going deeper.

I found this book a little on the weak side for myself. One can work through some questions/answers like the ones in this book and still be fighting an up-hill battle with bodily reactions in certain situations. The solutions for this wasn't all that convincing for me. Ideally, we need to find places of acceptance and kind people with whom we both can and would like to connect with. That's half the battle in life. There are fart too many places where one doesn't belong.

anxiety and phobia workboot is superior. Acceptance behavioral therapy isn't as good as cbt

Still reading this book. it is interesting although it can be difficult to get through.

Best with audio. Take your time with it, don't try to rush through it.Some tasks felt very silly.

Très utile pour ceux qui font de la phobie sociale.