Face Your Fears: A Proven Plan to Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and Obsessions

by David F. Tolin

Reclaim your life from crippling anxiety with this revolutionary step-by-step approach Nearly a third of all people will suffer from severe or debilitating fears—phobias, panic attacks, obsessions, worries, and more—over the course of a lifetime. Now Dr. David Tolin—a renowned psychologist and scientist at the Institute of Living and Yale featured on such programs as The OCD Project, Hoarders, The Dr. Oz Show , and Oprah —offers help for nearly every type of anxiety disorder. Dr. Tolin explains what fear really is, why you should face—not avoid—your fear, and how to beat your fear using gradual exposure techniques. Practical action steps and exercises help you learn this unique approach to facing fear without crutches or other unhelpful things found in many other programs in order to achieve a life that is free of debilitating anxieties. Face Your Fears will change the way you think about fear and what to do about it. This up-to-date, evidence-based, and user-friendly self-help guide to beating phobias and overcoming anxieties walks you step by step through the process of choosing courage and freedom over fear.

Genres: Self Help

304 pages, Hardcover

First published December 5, 2011

Reviews

[J. Schmidt · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book on dealing with your fears. It gives you a good overview of different types of fears, their origin and good and not so good strategies for dealing with them. However, the author mentions in the beginning that there are already many books on dealing with your fears, but "this book is different". Is it really different? Did it cover something I have never come acrosse before? Not really! It essentially boils down to exposure therapy, some cognitive behavioural therapy techniques and a tiny bit of mindfulness. Hardly new! If you have never read any other book on that topic, then this is a good starting point, but do not expect epiphanies if you have read books on fear management before.

[Gina · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you suffer from anxiety ... GET THIS BOOK !!! A wonderful stranger/friend of mine taught me years ago that the only way out of the anxiety tunnel is to march right on through it. This book goes right along with that theory and forces you to face your fears and move past them.

[Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

easy to understand!

Helps to break down and understand what causes anxiety- what takes place in the brain. Gives great tools to help cope with different forms of anxiety