The Mindful Way through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life

I worked my way through the whole book and it was really useful to gain new perspectives and helped me not get so lost in my thoughts. I also bought The Mindful Way Through Depression by different authors and this anxiety version was so much better, clearer, and more kind-hearted. I highly recommend trying this book. I felt more peaceful and grounded after working through it, which lasted a while. I'm needing to go back through it again, to continue my progress forward and relearn some things I have forgotten. My only negative is the section on developing your valued actions. I felt it could be revised and improved in future editions by the authors. It was okay, but it was less clear than the rest of the book and felt less well developed. It seemed there was a step missing between identifying values and then getting those into actions... Anyway, I still recommend the book to anyone experiencing anxiety and wanting to work through it.

I found this so helpful and relaxing to read. It includes so many helpful actions you can take and helps you become very mindful and aware. I must read it again.

I've read lots of books about mindfulness, anxiety, and how to do it/deal with it. This book is a most comprehensive combination of the two subjects, dealing with the pitfalls and varied circumstances that make mindfulness less than effective when anxiety pulls out it's full bag of tricks. The authors obviously have deep experience helping folks change their unwanted patterns. Mindfulness, I've found, can bring great calm and clarity when consistently practiced. This the authors support by thoroughly explaining the how our clever minds avoid what we fear even though it's what we really want to do. They offer many examples in each chapter and exercises to help one experience each step of practicing consistent mindfulness. I recognized many of my own anxiety avoidance strategies and am finding the exercises very helpful in using mindfulness to become aware of them and find better alternative.

Helps if you have anxiety.

Orsillo and Roemer deliver not just the "what" and the "why" of mindfulness, but the "how" as well. So many other mindfulness books present chapter after chapter of theory, but fall short when it comes to practical exercises. This book includes easily understood descriptions of many mindfulness techniques, and presents them in-context with solid rationales and explanations. Numerous examples are given of people who struggle with anxiety, depression, strained relationships, addictions, etc., and how daily mindfulness practice has helped them to live lives that are more personally fulfilling. The style is very approachable, and the book would make an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about mindfulness, professionals and laypersons alike.

I recommend and gift this book to anyone who says they are struggling with anxiety, or who are even occasionally anxious. It examines the nature of anxiety, explaining how worrying is in fact impairing your ability to fully engage with the present moment. The book teaches you how to reconnect with the present moment through mindfulness practice. It also offers helpful tools for dealing with troubling emotions and helps you identify anxiety-driven assumptions that fuel negative reactions to other people, life challenges, etc. This book helped me through the stress of graduate school and some major life transitions. If you are in a mindfulness group or even practicing alone with recordings, this book goes well beyond the meditations you’ll do; it’s a wonderful complement to mindfulness meditation in my opinion. It also helps ypu learn to view your anxiety objectively, which is a critical step in reducing its power and intensity. Throughout, the authors include helpful real-life examples, as well as regular journal exercises that force you to engage with the lessons and practice new skills at managing your anxiety.

The Mindful Way Through Depression or The Body Keeps the Score were notably better reads in my opinion.

Lots of useful info. I have read it twice!

Gives a good breakdown of thought patterns to explain that you're not actually a complete basket case, just human. Shows how you can nurture yourself with compassion and see through the uncomfortable situations. I'm still working on it and it does help. If you suffer from anxiety you'll know just how terrifying it can be at times, you've got nothing to lose, I definitely recommend

Claro, conciso e útil. Explica a origem da ansiedade e como lidar com ela. Reflexões excelentes. Contém diversos exercícios q auxiliam na assimilação do conteúdo.

I've read a lot of "self-help" books. This one BY FAR has been the best. No joke. it has measurably improved my life a lot, and that of those around me. READ IT, anxiety or not.

excellent exercises, resources and tools

This is a brilliant book for anyone suffering from anxiety. I did a Mindfulness course and this is re-enforcing and expanding what I learnt there. I am reading through it and doing all the exercises. It does not replace a therapist but it can help anyone while they are waiting for an appointment,