ACT: Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry: The Ultimate Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Overcoming Fear and Embracing Life

The truth is, emotions like pain, anger, fear, sadness, and shame are difficult to manage. This is where Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) comes in. ACT is a form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that focuses on the problem of human suffering. It acknowledges that suffering is a natural part of the human experience, and that trying to avoid it only causes more pain in the long run. Rather than trying to eliminate negative emotions, ACT teaches individuals to accept them as a natural part of life and to learn to live in harmony with them. By reading this book, you will learn to recognize your thoughts, images, or memories for what they are: products of the mind and not absolute realities. The cycle of human suffering can be a vicious one, with pain leading to negative thinking or self-doubt, which leads to negative feelings like sadness or depression, and so on.