Overcoming Anxiety - Reassuring Ways To Break Freefrom Stress And Worry And Lead A Calmer Life

What makes you anxious? The thought of a job interview, a big presentation, conference or upcoming social event? Maybe you worry about losing your job, getting ill or something happening to your loved ones?

Perhaps it’s not just one specific thing? Perhaps it’s a constant low level feeling of doubt and insecurity that you are feeling?

Worries and anxieties are familiar to us all. Worrying can be helpful when it prompts you to take action and solve a problem but unrelenting doubts, fears and negative possibilities can dominate your mind and paralyse you. They can affect your ability to manage your everyday life and wellbeing; your sleep and appetite, your social life and your ability to concentrate.

The good news is that there are ways to manage this spiral of unhelpful thoughts and difficult feelings.

This book explains how to manage anxiety and stop it taking over your life. It is for anyone who wants to understand and learn how to manage their anxiety and is also helpful for friends and family of anyone suffering from anxiety.

With this book, you can learn:

• How and why you get anxious
• How to change the way you think about upcoming events and experiences
• What you can do and how to take control
• Where to get support
• What family and friends can do to help

Gill Hasson is a bestselling personal development author, whose reassuring approach has helped thousands of people develop and understand the skills they need to lead a more peaceful, stress-free life. She works with people from diverse backgrounds and situations. Her key motivation is her belief in the ability of people to positively change their way of thinking - about life, other people, and themselves. She works in adult education, is an associate tutor at the University of Sussex, and delivers training for QA, one of the UK's largest training providers, and Mumsnet, the UK's largest website for parents.
Gill is a freelance journalist and writes articles on personal development and relationships for a variety of magazines, including Psychologies and Take A Break, and for a number of websites.
With Sue Hadfield she is the author of two books, How to be Assertive in Any Situation and Bounce: Use the Power of Resilience to Live the Life You Want. She is the sole author of Brilliant Communication Skills, Brilliant Emotional Intelligence (both published by Pearson), and with Capstone has published Mindfulness, (2013), Emotional Intelligence (2014) and How to Deal with Difficult People (2014) which reached the #3 spot in the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her forthcoming title Mindfulness Pocketbook recently published in March 2015.