Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick

David A. Carbonell, PhD

Apr 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne

About this audiobook

It's time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Drawing on the same cutting-edge psychology presented in author David Carbonell's The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers ten powerful "counter-intuitive" strategies to help you put worry in its place-anytime, anywhere. Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question our decisions and ourselves, worry about the future, and it fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. But what if we understood that anxiety is merely a trick of the mind, trying to convince us we're in danger? Anxiety is like a magician behind the curtain, playing subtle tricks on us to convince us that we're in danger when we're not. When we understand this, we can observe our anxious feelings with some distance. Based on the author's popular book, The Worry Trick, this helpful and humorous guide identifies the "trick" of chronic anxiety, and provides the ten most powerful techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you respond differently to panic, anxiety, worry, and phobias. Once you learn to respond differently to the worry trick, you'll be able to break the cycle of chronic anxiety for good.

About the author

David A. Carbonell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety in all forms. He is author of Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, and Fear of Flying Workbook. He has taught workshops on the treatment of anxiety disorders to more than 9,000 professional psychotherapists in the US and abroad.

Stephen R. Thorne is a professional actor and a member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad, among many other roles. Stephen has narrated over fifty audiobooks.

Martin N. Seif, PhD, is cofounder of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. He maintains a private practice in New York, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and is coauthor of What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders and Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts.