A book aimed specifically at a female audience. A self-help guide for those who struggle with anxiety. Filled with lots of research and evidence so you can delve deeper. It is filled with worksheets, techniques, tips and tricks which would be just as suited to men as well as women.
I would suggest you buy the physical rather than the ebook edition, so you can complete the worksheets.

This book is obviously a Self Help Guide for Anxiety geared specifically towards women. While it focuses on statistics for women, there would be nothing stopping a man from trying the worksheets, techniques, tips, and tricks of this book. Aside from the statistical information used to provide needed evidence, it can be viewed as a general self-help book.

As I said, everything is geared towards women when it comes to giving information. It sorta reads like a seminar for women. There is a questionnaire near the beginning to help you figure out what kind of anxious person you are so you can narrow down your reading to areas that are specifically about your type of anxiety. You know, if you’re not like me and feel compelled to read the whole book “just in case.” There are a few worksheets at the beginning, but the majority of it is just reading and educating yourself…and maybe a few fictitious scenarios about fictitious women. Or maybe they were real women. I can’t remember.

I spent the last week and a bit reading and rereading the physical strategies at the end of the book, trying to memorize a few and use them on myself to see if they do anything for me. Yoga, Qigong (Chinese movement and meditation practice), acupressure, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) are responsible for a lot of the physical techniques the author supplies you with to help battle and calm your anxiety. But the author does give you other ideas like journaling and the box of worries. Or planning to worry and getting organized to help diminish the clutter around you that may help trigger your anxious behavior. She also talks about getting a support network, helping out other people (to help make yourself feel better), take days off from worrying (anxiety free day planning).

The author also reminds you to drink your water (and enjoy water in general), nourish yourself (the whole book is about the mentally, but there is also the physically, as in food). Speaking of food, this book gets a little diet book-like and has a character dedicated to what you should eat and another to what you shouldn’t eat. Apparently, sugar is bad all round, which most of us know. But the idea of a coffee junky giving up their Joe… you should probably work on that because it could and that’s really who she’s going after. Apparently, the guideline is 400mg of caffeine a day. Who knew. I know a lot of anxious people who could be sleeping on their desks at work if they followed this advice. Lol

I also want to point out that the author does a great job of citing ALL the papers, studies, documents, etc she used to write her book. Bravo!!! As a librarian, I solute you because SO MANY AUTHORS fail to do this properly, or at all for that matter.

All in all, it’s a pretty good book. I only wish it was available in physical form instead of just electronically.

Not what I expected when I requested but glad I read. I can definitely see myself recommending this to others!

A thorough explanation, of different types of anxiety and how it affects different people. The author put a lot of emphasis on gender differences though.

Many different techniques are covered on how to deal with anxiety and getting out of a bad cycle of thinking. The author suggests trying different things and trying them more than once. You may not click with yoga the first time but try it again later when you may be in a different place and so on with each technique.

The subtitle of the book specifically targets this book at women but most of these things will help everyone. Anxiety is a major mental health issue right now and this book will be great for everyone.

If you are experiencing anxiety/panic please do yourself a favor and read this book. Right from the first chapter the information is mind boggling. The differences between how men and women process/look at things explains an awful lot! The information on the different “physical” causes of anxiety is somehow comforting i.e. it’s not all in your head. And the practical tips and numerous techniques are easy and effective. Before I even got half way through I was feeling much better about being able to deal with my anxiety.

This is a great book about anxiety. It’s extremely informative and also interesting to read. I actually started doing some of the techniques in the book and I’ve noticed some changes already.