Worrying Is Optional

There's no one-size-fits-all treatment for excessive worrying but by assembling an arsenal of tools and skills you can effectively manage your worry. Worrying Is Optional offers a powerful new approach that combines strategies from metacognitive therapy acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help anxious readers build their own customizable ''anti-worrying'' toolbox. Using these tools readers will learn to break free from unhelpful thinking patterns and discover that worrying is in fact optional.