Finding Your Balance: Guided Exercises for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

With wise advice and helpful exercises, this charmingly designed, interactive workbook will help you find a path toward a calmer, happier daily life.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychological intervention program that teaches you various techniques to help you sit with your anxiety and stress rather than trying to get rid of them. Put another way, it helps people redirect away from their minds and into the moment. While you can’t control what emotions come up in any given moment, you can control how you choose to respond to those emotions and thoughts, and to other people. With Finding Your Balance, you can express your feelings in a safe and constructive way.

Stress, worry, and anxiety can make it hard to enjoy your days, and these feelings tend to build up over time. This useful workbook is a colorful, friendly guide that’s written to be straightforward and easily accessible, with the warm, caring feel of a guided journal. Inside, you’ll find a simple toolkit for reducing your anxiety, no matter where it pops up:

• Learn to separate yourself from your anxious thoughts 
• Break unhelpful thought patterns
• Practice how to confront and manage your fears
• Find strategies for focusing on the present moment
• Practice techniques to keep anxiety at bay for the long haul

Accompanied by engaging, inspirational illustrations, this guided workbook offers writing prompts, meditations, tracking exercises, and more—giving a gentle, eye-opening introduction to scientifically proven techniques to reduce anxiety in everyday life.