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"Managing Worry and Anxiety" by Jean Holthaus is a Christian living book. She is a licensed therapist and has lots of experience working with anxious people. She explains what anxiety is and uses research. She tells what the medical treatments including medicines that can be used to help patients. She shared practical step by step approaches to help patients. She also shares how peoples view of God can be distorted and hurt their daily lives. She gives examples of how God worked in the Bible and how that can encourage us to have a deeper relationship with Him. She even shared some examples when she has worried and how it has hurt her .She shared how she could have done things differently so she did not worry. She also shows ways we think that can promote worrying. She helps us change those faulty thinking patterns with good examples. This book is a good resource for therapists, counselors, any Christian , pastors. This book was given to me by netgalley and the publisher for review purposes. The opinions about the book are my own.

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Managing Worry and Anxiety: Practical Tools to Help You Deal with Life's Challenges by Jean Holthaus is a helpful book to help with anxiety and worry. I liked that author is a therapist so she can give you practical solutions but also brings faith into it. I think they all go together. As someone who can struggle with worry and anxiety at times, I am always on the lookout for good resources like this one. She gives you tools to help you fight the battle. 

I was blessed to receive an electronic copy via the publisher. All opinions are my own.

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The book help you to understand what is worry, anxiety and how it manifests in people's lives emotionnally, physically.
It explains how our view of God can have effects on our anxiety and gives you the tools you need to deal with it.
The book is full with details regarding our body, our brain and how it works when we are anxious or worried.
It can be interesting for those who want to understand the causes of stress, anxiety and the reaction of people who go through trauma or difficult times in their lives.
It was hard for me to get through this book, I could not finish it.

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