BOOK REVIEW : ANXIETY RELIEF FOR TEENS – ESSENTIAL CBT SKILLS AND MINDFULNESS PRACTICES TO OVERCOME ANXIETY AND STRESS BY REGINE GALANTI

TITLE : Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress

AUTHOR : Regine Galanti

GENRE : Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Family & Relationships

FR RATING : 5 stars

SYNOPSIS

Is anxiety getting in the way of living your best life? With proven CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques, let Anxiety Relief for Teens be your guide out of the spiraling stress of anxiety to get you back on track to living a full and healthy life.

Teenagers juggle a ton of responsibilities–social, academic, family, and more. Add stress and anxiety to the mix, and it’s little wonder you get anything done! But with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness, it will give you practical exercises and techniques for coping with stress and anxiety as well as skills you need to reverse negative patterns. With practice, these skills can help you manage anxiety by changing your thoughts, behaviors, and physical reactions to navigate life’s challenges.

Anxiety Relief for Teens includes:

– Quizzes and self-assessments to help you better understand your anxiety and emotions as well as discovering their respective triggers.

– 30+ mindfulness practices designed to help you cope with your anxiety in the present moment through visualizations, breathing, meditation, and other exercises.

– 30+ CBT-based tools to help you develop skills to manage your anxiety in the long term along with practical strategies for dealing with challenging emotions like anger and sadness.

A toolbox filled with a wide range of strategies and skills, Anxiety Relief for Teens will help you develop a consistent self-care plan to make your life more enjoyable. 

FR REVIEW

DISCLAIMER : Thank you, Netgalley and Zeitgeist for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Regine has done a fantastic job of presenting a book that tackles common issues faced by today’s youth, be it anxiety, depression or stress. This book is full of practical steps one can undertake to keep the anxiety and depression under control. The idea is to find the perfect balance where the individual can control the impact of the stress but at the same time live a healthy wholesome life. The author explains depression, anxiety in simpler terms and helps the readers by providing methods to identify them as well. 

The book is a guideline for the youth and adults alike who are facing these problems and provides practical steps that can be incorporated into the reader’s daily routine. The action plan detailed in this book can used to deal with different situations and has various techniques that can be used to resolve the issues effectively. 

This manual focuses on identifying the thoughts, emotions, triggers, and behaviors and helps the readers figure out the right plan to deal with the respective situation. There is a wide variety of CBT, mindfulness, exposure, and coping techniques to prevent the body from going into fight-flight-freeze mode. The central theme for the book is to ask oneself what they are struggling with and the questionnaire is super helpful in identifying the underlying issues. Once the issues are identified the reader can then move onto the highly practical and simple techniques to curb the common responses to anxiety and depression. 

Adverse reactions or extreme methods to avoid the situation can be stopped by the effective usage of the various techniques outlined in the book. The author makes sure the steps are concise and simple which helps in trying them out and repeating them on a daily basis. These strategies and tools can be done at home and take only a small amount of time. The author equally encourages and inspires youngsters to use the tools and implementing it as a part of their routine consistently. The tool kit is easy to follow and helps the user to have better control of the reactions they have towards their mental health struggles. 

I loved this book and I think it is an effective skill set to learn and master. It is simple, practical and guaranteed to bring long term success in dealing with anxiety and depression. I gave the book 5 stars and highly recommend checking it out. This would be an amazing read for any of those out there who are struggling with anxiety and depression. Parents of youngsters, youth or adults should definitely read this book. It is helpful and extremely beneficial to bring about a positive, honest and realistic outlook towards life. This is simply the most relevant non-fiction, self-help book and because of that, it is very important to be aware of it.