The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

In short, stop struggling to feel and think better, and instead start living better with whatever you might be feeling or thinking.

You change your relationship with your anxious discomfort—especially how you act in the presence of it—by no longer fighting

This meant starting to do things he had stopped doing because of anxiety and instead being willing to be anxious while doing them.

You commit to doing what you care about with whatever your mind or old history dishes out.

Maybe, just maybe, your thoughts and feelings are not barriers at all. Maybe they’re just part of you. Perhaps you can bring them along with you as you do what you care about.

Accept with serenity what you cannot change, have the courage to change what you can, and develop the wisdom to know the difference.

People with GAD often have a pervasive feeling that they can do little to predict and control stressful events in their lives, so they end up worrying about them. There’s now convincing research evidence that people engage in worry as a way to avoid this unpleasant imagery and the physical tension associated with anxiety

Living well will become your focus, not living to feel and think well.

The most critical element that separates normal from problematic anxiety and fear is this: avoidance, avoidance, and more avoidance. It’s the common tie that binds all anxiety disorders together. Avoidance of fear and anxiety feeds anxiety and fear, and it shrinks lives.