Summary of Alice Boyes's The Anxiety Toolkit

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Anxiety is an emotional state characterized by feelings of worry, nervousness, and uneasiness. It affects 40 million Americans over the age of 18, and everyday anxiety affects a far greater number.
#2 Anxiety is a variety of symptoms that can affect us physically, emotionally, and cognitively. It is an evolutionary advantage that causes us to pause and scan the environment for threats. When we detect a potential danger, it is not supposed to be easy for us to stop thinking about it.
#3 Managing your anxiety is about navigating your anxiety bottlenecks. These are the five traps that cause you to feel anxious: excessively hesitating before taking action, ruminating and worrying, paralyzing perfectionism, fear of feedback and criticism, and avoidance.
#4 Understanding your nature and accepting it are the keys to overcoming anxiety. You don’t need to change your nature; you just need to understand your thinking style and learn tricks to shift your thoughts and behavior when it’s advantageous to you to do so.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Personal development
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 05 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669379119
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Alice Boyes Ph.D's The Anxiety Toolkit
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Anxiety is an emotional state characterized by feelings of worry, nervousness, and uneasiness. It affects 40 million Americans over the age of 18, and everyday anxiety affects a far greater number.

#2

Anxiety is a variety of symptoms that can affect us physically, emotionally, and cognitively. It is an evolutionary advantage that causes us to pause and scan the environment for threats. When we detect a potential danger, it is not supposed to be easy for us to stop thinking about it.

#3

Managing your anxiety is about navigating your anxiety bottlenecks. These are the five traps that cause you to feel anxious: excessively hesitating before taking action, ruminating and worrying, paralyzing perfectionism, fear of feedback and criticism, and avoidance.

#4

Understanding your nature and accepting it are the keys to overcoming anxiety. You don’t need to change your nature; you just need to understand your thinking style and learn tricks to shift your thoughts and behavior when it’s advantageous to you to do so.

#5

I was anxiety-prone as a child, and I still am as an adult. I was the type of kid who would refuse to go to camp because I was terrified that the camp leaders would make me eat food I didn’t like or tell me off for something I hadn’t meant to do.

#6

Part 1 covers how anxiety works and how you can better understand your nature. It also covers each specific anxiety bottleneck, and provides you with a toolkit of actionable strategies to unblock it.

#7

You can interact with the material in this book in any way that is best for you. Remember that you are aiming to build your own personalized Anxiety Toolkit by finding strategies that work for you and adapting them to suit your needs.

#8

The quiz below will help you understand how well you understand your fundamental nature. It also assesses how well you understand your overstimulating nature.

#9

To better manage your anxiety, you don’t need to understand the average anxious person. You need to understand the multidimensional you. By multidimensional, I mean understanding your nature beyond just your predisposition to anxiety.

#10

The stereotype of an anxious person is that they are an introvert. However, some of the clients I’ve seen who have struggled the most with anxiety have been extraverts.

#11

There is a close relationship between introversion and high sensitivity. Some of the typical characteristics of a highly sensitive person are tendencies to process things deeply, get easily overwhelmed by too many things to do, and get their feelings hurt easily.

#12

Anxiety is often associated with a prevention focus, which means being focused on avoiding bad things. However, people who are anxious also have a tendency to be focused on reaching for new opportunities and rewards.

#13

There are people who are ambitious, competitive, big thinking, and novelty seeking, but they also have other elements of their nature that can cause them to get easily overstimulated or to slam on their brakes when their instinct to be cautious kicks in.

#14

Some people require more energy to process change than others, and they will tend to be more anxious if they aren’t allowed time to adjust to change or if they don’t have any emotional energy to cope with small changes in plans.

#15

You can identify your general nature of being agreeable or disagreeable, and then use that to your advantage. If you’re agreeable, you may find yourself overcommitting to things because you overestimate the potential negative consequences of saying no.

#16

There is a difference between being conscientious and being perfectionistic. Perfectionism is when you spend so much time trying to make something just right that you have no willpower left over for other important tasks. Conscientiousness, on the other hand, is when you work hard to understand yourself and apply your learning to your life.