Book Reviews

• The Healing Power of the Breath
  Picture yourself in one or more of these scenarios: You find yourself unable to cope with stress; your anxiety level is climbing unabated; you cannot seem to get a good night's sleep; or you are ...
• Blind Devotion: Survival on the Front Lines of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction
  It would have been easy for Sharlene Prinsen to portray herself as a heroic martyr, or else as an innocent, one-dimensional victim. Yet in the memoir that centers on her marriage to a combat veteran ...
• Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: The 4-Step Plan to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want
  "Freeing Yourself from Anxiety" is filled with practical, reassuring, and even fun strategies to help anyone deal with anxiety. What is anxiety? Psychologist Tamar E. Chansky defines it as “the first reaction of a sensitive system ...
• The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths About Fear and Courage
  “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look at fear in the face,” said First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. “You must do the thing in which you think ...
• Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and Finally Let the Sunshine In
  In Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and—Finally—Let the Sunshine In, Todd Patkin takes us through his life, outlining the troubles, as well as fortunes, he has had along the way. Throughout ...
• Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
  Daniel Smith describes himself as anxiety personified in his absorbing and humorous memoir Monkey Mind. Smith was anxious from birth. Anxiety lurked in his genes. Both his mother and father suffered from severe anxiety: His ...
• The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook
  In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the ...
• The Gentle Self: How to Overcome Your Difficulties with Depression, Anxiety, Shyness, and Low Self-Esteem
  I think everyone’s a little narcissistic.  We all have moments when we wish everyone would be more like us—when we get upset that no one seems to care about what we are feeling.  We also ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
  In Yoga for Emotional Balance Bo Forbes, PsyD, explores how yoga can compliment traditional psychotherapy to help patients improve their anxiety and depression symptoms through movement and breath work. Much of the book is devoted ...
• Transcendental Meditation: What Is It and How Does It Work?
  Being that my job is to feature and review books on psychology, spirituality, and especially the intersection ...
• Moving Through Fear: Cultivating the 7 Spiritual Instincts for a Fearless Life
  Jeff Golliher, author of Moving Through Fear: Cultivating the 7 Spiritual Instincts for a Fearless Life, is both an Episcopalian priest and a cultural anthropologist, a combination that allows him to address uniquely how fear ...
• Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
  Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. And Pec Indman, Ed.D., MFT is a very good read for such a serious subject that not only teaches ...
• 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
  Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
• Nerve: Poise Under Pressure
  In his intelligent and sharp-witted book, Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool Taylor Clark is incredibly brave for tackling a topic like anxiety and ...
• Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover
  We all have to interact with people we don’t get along with at some point in our lives.  Sometimes, those people are so emotionally intense, anxious, and self-absorbed that the only word that accurately describes ...
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
  “Humans suffer, in part, because they are verbal creatures.” So says Steven Hayes, PhD, authors of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. We, as humans, learn specific names for specific things and we ...
• When In Doubt, Make Belief: An OCD-Inspired Approach to Living with Uncertainty
  Written by a recovered Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) sufferer, When in Doubt, Make Belief aims to explore the doubt we all face, in varying degrees, in our daily lives. Bell chronicles his personal journey with ...
• Free Yourself From Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide to Overcoming Anxiety Disorders
  Watching anyone suffer from anxiety can be difficult, especially when that person is a loved one and a child. As a parent of such a person, I have often felt helpless and ineffective in trying ...
• BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory’s Easy
  BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory's Easy is a 96-page, large-print, softcover book is a quick and easy read geared toward helping children and parents find solutions for those who suffer from social anxiety.  The story ...
• A Brief History of Anxiety: Yours and Mine
  In the U.S., 40 million adults have an anxiety disorder. Author Patricia Pearson is one of them: She is a regular visitor to Flu Wiki, an online community that fears an impending influenza outbreak. She ...
• Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders
  Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in America, affecting one in every nine people. Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders brings us ...
• The Sky Is Falling
  The Sky Is Falling: Understanding and Coping With Phobias, Panic, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders This is a terrific book to start out with if you are dealing with anxiety attacks. It's the first book I read, mainly ...
• The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
  A helpful and practical guide to working on issues of anxiety and phobias, for anyone who's ready to take their treatment to the next level. It provides step-by-step exercises, helping you learn about relaxation, exposure ...
• Panic Attacks Workbook
  Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick Panic is an insidious trick that makes you fear simple, everyday things: driving, shopping, socializing, traveling and more. The first attack comes out of nowhere, ...