I’m not familiar at all with this type of therapy so this was a really interesting read for me.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

This book is an excellent starting point for working on #CravingsandAddictions. ACT was not a therapy I was familiar with, but I'm very happy to have read it. I believe everyone could use a little help, if not with addictions, at least with cravings. I enjoyed learning about how to cope, and the free tools you can download from #NewHarbinger compliment the book wonderfully. Thank you to New Harbinger and NetGalley for the chance to read this in return for an honest review.

Overall, a nice addition to the growing ACT collection of books. This book shows you techniques on how to overcome your cravings to help with your addictions.

Good points:

- The exercises are really great, loved the "Writing Your New Values-based Living Story" one - the book has a good collection of exercises from different books and they are written quite concisely

- The book is quite short and easy to read compared to others

- Each chapter had very good summaries, and choice moment diagrams

- You follow stories of some of Maria's and Megan's clients throughout the book, and at the end see how they have got on with their journey.

Not so great:

- The book came across quite serious, other ACT books felt like they had a bit more personality and humour to them.

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This book can be really helpful and life-changing for those who want to make progress in overcoming their addictions & cravings.

The book helps to understand addictions and gives advice to people to control cravings that lead to addictions. It also gives access to a web to complement the book.

If you are new to Acceptance and Commitment therapy and you want to help yourself get over some cravings or support family - you start with dispelling craving myths. You have a list of ideas for commitment activities. There are examples of many stories of how this worked for others by stickign to their values at craving choice moment.