Description
Powerful and customizable tools grounded in process-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you heal emotional pain and live a vital, values-based life
Do you struggle with overwhelming emotions, such as anger, anxiety, sadness, shame, or self-blame? Emotions—even intensely distressing ones—are a natural part of life. But if your emotions are so intense that they’re hurting your relationships or getting in the way of your happiness, it’s time for a change.
Written by a team of mental health experts, Healing Emotional Pain Workbook is a step-by-step guide to understanding your emotions and enhancing your overall well-being. Rather than a one-size-fits-all treatment, this workbook takes a tailored approach to help you treat the root cause of your emotional pain—whether it’s avoidance, internalization, or rumination. As a result, you’ll create a personalized plan to help you overcome intense emotions and live the life you want.
With this workbook, you’ll learn to:
- Stop avoiding and start showing up to your life
- Replace self-blame with self-compassion
- Make decisions based on your values, not your emotions
- Break free from repetitive negative thinking
- Increase psychological flexibility
- Accept your thoughts and emotions—rather than trying to outrun them!
When our emotions spiral out of control, they can result in chronic mental suffering. This workbook can help you change the way you react to emotions, before they negatively impact your life.
I got this for a class but ended up doing it on my own, very useful.
What I love about this book is that it’s all about doing, and not just reading. The book is filled with exercises to help you build a deeper understanding of yourself, while keeping the language simple for those of us who do not have a clinician background!
This terrific book is full of practical, clear-eyed explanations of evidence-based practices and the rationales for them. The structure around the self-assessment of negative coping mechanisms is a helpful way to implement process-based CBT. Great for clients and clinicians. Digital worksheets aren’t fillable PDFs but still well worth the purchase.
This book begins with a helpful self-assessment to give you a better sense of your own emotional coping style. Are you a worrier like me? Or are you more of a safety seeker, self blamer, situation avoider, or impulse driven type? Once you identify your own coping style, the book helps you harness research-based change processes to help you find new ways of responding to your emotions. I love this book for how practical, clear, and well-organized it is. This book is written by seasoned clinicians and it’s an absolute treasure trove of some of the best emotional resilience tools out there. I’m a clinical psychologist, and I’ll be recommending this book to my own clients.
–Jocelyn Sze, PhD
*I received a copy of this book from New Harbinger. This review is my own opinion*
Healing Emotional Pain Workbook is a step-by-step guide to understanding your emotions and enhancing your overall well-being. That is how this workbook is described, and it’s entirely accurate. First, you start with a test to see where you are, and then you can move forward into the explanation of those areas with great tools of how to process those specific areas step by step by listing them and/or rating them, and even in the explanations, they go back and expand on the original lists and/or rating systems of how they would do it. There are enough examples for each area that you are not left wondering if you are doing it right. While I read the book quickly, I can see this being a tool that people can use for much longer periods of time as it has you really take the time to reflect and think about where you are and how to move forward. The only negative I have is that in the book, there are several references to a webpage for the test and other printable tools, and the webpage does not work. Even searching the site, you cannot find these items by name. Otherwise, I highly recommend this as it is very thorough and detailed in creating an awareness, moving toward an actionable plan, and how to walk it out, as well as how to create change to move in a new and healing direction. Very well done.
*I received a copy of this book from NetGalley. This review is my own opinion*