People with co-occurring anxiety and depression often struggle with intense emotions, intrusive thoughts, obsessive rumination, and low mood. This workbook offers a powerful and innovative approach blending cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and meditation to help readers find emotional balance, gain distance from negative thoughts, soothe anxiety, feel more confident and assertive, and improve their overall mood and outlook on life.
An innovative, 10-week approach to help you balance your emotions, improve your mood, and find lasting calm. Do you struggle with co-occurring anxiety and depression? Do you lay awake at night worrying about the future or ruminating about the past? Are you too tired or unmotivated during the day to do the things you once enjoyed? If so, you aren’t alone; your anxiety and depression are not your fault, and most importantly is hope. Using a breakthrough approach called mindfulness-integrated cognitive behavior therapy (MiCBT), this workbook will help you identify and address the underlying causes of your symptoms, so you can get back to living your life. With this workbook, you’ll embark on a 10-week journey of self-discovery and recovery. You’ll learn powerful skills and meditative practices to help you balance intense emotions, put a stop to endless rumination, gain distance from negative thoughts, soothe worry and anxiety, feel more confident and assertive, and improve your overall mood and outlook on life! You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the root cause of your anxiety and depression and discover simple ways to connect with others and engage in activities that you may have been avoiding out of fear. Your anxiety and depression don’t have to define you any longer. If you’re ready to make a change for the better, this workbook can help guide you, step by step.
Industry Reviews
“Grabovac and Cayoun are true masters of mindfulness and meditation, and in particular the clinical implementation of insight and related psychological and philosophical constructs. With this workbook, they provide an extremely powerful tool for working with negative mood and anxiety that promises to facilitate deep, meaningful, and real healing for the benefit of many.”
–Matthew D. Sacchet, PhD, associate professor and director of the Meditation Research Program in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
–Lic. Maria Noel Anchorena, clinical psychologist, professor, certified mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher and teacher trainer, and cofounder and general director at Sociedad Mindfulness y Salud
–Zindel Segal, PhD, professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and coauthor of Better in Every Sense
–Susan Woods, MSW, coauthor of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
–Mark Williams, emeritus professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford, and coauthor of Deeper Mindfulness
–Lori A. Brotto, PhD, professor at the University of British Columbia, and author of Better Sex Through Mindfulness
–Nicholas T. Van Dam, PhD, associate professor of psychological sciences, and inaugural director of the Contemplative Studies Centre at The University of Melbourne
