The comprehensive workbook for radically transforming your life--now in a fully revised and updated 40th anniversary edition!

If you are depressed, anxious, angry, worried, confused, frustrated, upset, or ashamed, please remember that you are not alone in your struggle with painful feelings and experiences. Everybody experiences emotional distress sometimes. It's normal. But when the pain becomes too strong and too enduring, it's time to take that important first step toward feeling better.

This fully revised and updated fifth edition of Thoughts and Feelings outlines twenty evidence-based techniques you can mix and match to create your own personal treatment plan for overcoming a range of mental health concerns--including worry, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, anger, and emotional and behavioral challenges of any kind. Customize your plan to address multiple concerns at once, or troubleshoot the thoughts and feelings that bother you most.

Used and recommended by the most renowned and respected therapists, this comprehensive mental health workbook offers all of the best psychological tools for quickly regaining mastery over your moods and emotions. It has already helped thousands of readers:

Challenge self-sabotaging patterns of thinking
Practice relaxation techniques to maintain self-control in stressful situations
Change the core beliefs that drive painful emotions
Identify and prioritize values for a more focused, fulfilling life

Using proven-effective methods based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness, habit reversal, self-compassion, and more, this book will help you balance your emotions and start feeling better--about yourself, and about the world around you. It's time, finally, to feel fully alive.

AUTHOR

Martha Davis PhD

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Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life