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The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You Robert L. Leahy Crown Publishing Group Buy: The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You From A Press Release Book Description Do you think worry helps you solve your problems? Do you feel worry motivates you? Do you believe worry prevents you from making mistakes? In his groundbreaking book THE WORRY CURE: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You, Dr. Robert L. Leahy helps readers determine why they worry and how they can defeat it. Most of us worry about making mistakes at work, saying the wrong thing in a business meeting, or how we look on a particular day. Dr. Leahy, president of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy and the president-elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, offers readers an empowering new way to understand and combat their worry in THE WORRY CURE. Who hasn't stressed about the amount of money they are making, if their health will fail, if they're going to get fired, or whether they will be able to afford that summer vacation they had been looking forward to? In fact, worry is a central issue in people's lives - 38 percent of people say they worry every day, and more than 19 million Americans are classified as chronic worriers. Until recently there has been very little comprehensive insight for worriers. Now, with THE WORRY CURE, Dr. Leahy has combined stories from his practice with unique approaches and advice for reducing worry. Leahy has seen plenty of patients who worry they will lose their jobs or will be unable to commit to a long-term relationship. These people want to be the best employee or the perfect partner, and they worry constantly that they will not live up to this imagined ideal of perfection they have. Part of Dr. Leahy's solution for these worries and others is his seven-step program. The seven steps to identify and take control of worry include: Identify productive and unproductive worry - When does it make sense to worry and when is it nonsense? Discover what you can do if you have a productive worry, and how you can turn it into action. Accept reality and commit to change - How can you learn to accept and deal with reality, rather than simply worry about it? Find out how to use constructive discomfort to get things done that you don't want to do. Learn how you can use successful imperfection to make progress. Challenge your worried thinking - Identify the most common distortions in your thinking and learn to think more realistically. Focus on the deeper threat - Learn how to get to the very core issue of your worry, so it no longer fuels it. Turn "failure" into opportunity - Look at the risk of failure as an opportunity to be challenged, to learn and to grow more powerful in your life. Use your emotions rather than worry about them - You worry to avoid unpleasant feelings. Learn how to turn your emotions into a source of support and meaning for yourself, so that you can use them to make your life more complete. Take control of time - Find out how to turn the urgency off. Get more out of each present moment in your life so you can live for now, rather than worry about the future. The Good News: Help is on the way! Dr. Leahy has been helping people battle depression and anxiety for the past twenty-five years through cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapy focuses on the biases in your thinking that are causing your depression and anxiety (worry is the central component of all the anxiety disorders and depression). Through cognitive therapy, Dr. Leahy helps patients understand and modify their biases to diminish anxiety. Many worriers attempt to handle their worry, but end up making it worse. In THE WORRY CURE, Dr. Leahy will address productive ways to handle worry, as well as focus on some special worries, including: What if no one likes me? What if my lover leaves me? What if I am really sick or dying? What if I start losing money? What if I make a mistake at work? What if I don't get that promotion? Worry is a reflection of the many parts of who we are. As Dr. Leahy shows in THE WORRY CURE, once we are able to understand our own worry and why it makes sense to us, we will be able to examine some things that we can do - or not do - to help ourselves. About the author: Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., is clinical professor in psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the editor and author of thirteen books. He is a founding fellow and the president-elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, the president of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City. Buy: The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You Return to the Dr. Laura Reading Corner

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