The Mindful Freak-Out: A rescue manual for being at your best when life is at its worst

The Mindful Freak-Out presents strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to give you the evidence-based tools you need to face highly distressing moments. The goal: to soothe your distress while giving you the inner strength, wisdom, and commitment needed to face emotional pain in a flexible way. “A rescue manual for people who are suffering through life’s emotionally painful moments”. “Running on autopilot can make you behave in ways you will later regret, The Mindful Feeak-Out by clinical psychologist Dr Eric Goodman can help you maintain control. It’s loaded with practical advice, exercises and information to help you harness the power of mindfulness to live your best life”. “In this highly interesting conversation, Eric Goodman, Ph.D lecturer at Calpol State University, will shed much light on what anxiety really is and on why only two types of people never have anxiety: psychopaths and dead people. In the end we hope you will agree that demonizing anxiety cause more problems than it solves, and with self-compassion coupled with exposure therapy we can minimize it and live a normal life.” “Loaded with practical advice, exercises, and information, this book will help you harness the power of mindfulness and compassion to live your best life, even when intensely painful emotions show up.” “The Mindful Freak-Out by clinical psychologist Eric Goodman, PhD is a lovely book. Reading it gives you the sense that you’re sitting across the table from a wise, experienced therapist....The book is written for newbies, but even though I’ve studied ACT and CFT at some depth, I thought the book was fresh, including both novel ways of seeing things and helpful reminders throughout"

“You don’t often see the words ‘mindful’ and ‘freak-out’ in the same sentence, much less think of them as behaviors that can work together. But ADAA member Eric Goodman, PhD, in his latest book, postulates, rightfully so, that there will always be times when we do or feel like we need to “freak out” and that we can actually do so in a mindful way.”

“Other animals … have to go along with whatever their nervous systems are doing,” he says. “But if humans can get mindful, if they can get off autopilot and just be in the moment, unhooked from the stories that their mind’s telling them, then they can choose to respond to things that are based on who they want to be — their value system rather than just their threat instincts.”

The Mindful Freak-Out presents strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to give you the evidence-based tools you need to face highly distressing moments. The goal of these strategies is to soothe your suffering while giving you the inner strength, wisdom, and commitment needed to face the emotional pain in a flexible way. The result is an outcome where you feel good about your response, rather than deeply regretting your actions or words. 

• | Author: Eric Goodman, Ph.D.
• | Publisher: Exisle Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781922539366
• | ISBN-10: 1922539368