The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Calm Worry, Panic, and Fear

Preface; Foreword; A Personal Story and Acknowledgments; How This Book Is Structured; 1; The Emergence of Anxiety; The Experience of Anxiety; Types of Anxiety; How Common Is Anxiety?; 2; What Is Anxiety, and How Has It Evolved?; Better Safe Than Sorry ... ; Evolution and Forms of Anxiety; Exposure with Compassion; 3; Anxiety, Compassion, and Our Ongoing Interactions with the World; Anxiety, Compassion, and Your Two Brains; 4; Toward the Compassionate Mind: An Evolution in Our Understanding of Anxiety through Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Compassion; An Introduction to Mindfulness.;The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety is the first book to help readers use self-compassion to move beyond clinical and subclinical anxiety. This approach draws on compassion-focused therapy to help readers become more aware of their anxiety triggers, soothe experiences of fear, and develop greater kindness for themselves and others.