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Don't Feed the Monkey Mind
Don't Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry | Jennifer Shannon
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The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious monkey mind, stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave. Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branchendlessly moving from fear to safety. If you are one of the millions of people whose life is affected by anxiety, you are familiar with this process. Unfortunately, you cant switch off the monkey mind, but you can stop feeding the monkeyor stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear. Written by psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon, this book shows you how to stop anxious thoughts from taking over using proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques, as well as fun illustrations. By following the exercises in this book, youll learn to identify your own anxious thoughts, question those thoughts, and uncover the core fears at play. Once you stop feeding the monkey, there are no limits to how expansive your life can feel. This book will show you how anxiety can only continue as long as you try to avoid it. And, paradoxically, only by seeking out and confronting the things that make you anxious can you reverse the cycle that keeps your fears alive.
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RedCurly
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It is a very useful book if you fight with anxeity (just like me). 🤍👊💪

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Kayla8
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Here‘s your friendly reminder for the week that putting your own needs first and setting boundaries does not make you selfish. 🙅🏻‍♀️It makes you self aware.

#selfhelp #anxiety

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Bookworm04

So mich easier to understand. I have read chimp paradox but that was very detailed and had to access thoughts all time and whys. This book bite sizes it. I use this book and mind maps now and seems to help. Impressed with this so far 72 pages in now says something as only started it other day. 👍

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Bookworm04
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Love it. Already £ on amazon or loan from borrow box only set back Is reading on my phone ????

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Bookworm04
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Interesting 26 pages in. #borrowbox find similar to chimp paradox but that had long wait till could borrow it. Let‘s see what this brings

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CatchMyBookBreath
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Seriously. Don't feed your monkey mind!
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Check out Jennifer Shannon's book Don't Feed The Monkey Mind for help with the endless cycle of social anxiety, fear, and worry.🌕 Shannon covers how to deal with feeling anxious yet still live a life you love. She focuses on how to move forward and not deny your feelings and teaches you short and long term strategies.

Also check out Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety