Great book for those who are nervous about or have questions about aging and making the most of your life in your later years.

As someone who has spent a LOT of time and energy dealing with anxiety and depression, I am always looking for helpful tips and techniques to help. The Aging Well Workbook is FILLED with useful information and practical ideas for managing my own “issues,” and would also be a wonderful resource for anyone caring for or just living with anyone with these “characteristics.”

The authors really know their stuff, and this helpful book includes a huge amount of help, as well as reassurance. The subtitle is “CBT Skills to Help You Think Flexibly, Manage Anxiety and Depression, and Enjoy Life at Any Age,” and it delivers what it promises. I’m hoping it will become my latest and most successful attempt at living my best and healthiest life. Five enthusiastic stars.

The Aging Well Workbook for Anxiety and Depression: CBT Skills to Help You Think Flexibility and Make the Most of Life at Any Age, by Julie Erickson, is a manual of self-help guidance for older adults dealing with anxiety and/or depression. It is extremely specific in terms of information and techniques to help readers identify issues and solutions. My suggestion is to read it through once before you feel the deep necessity for help. Go back and use it as a workbook when you need to address issues. I loved that all the examples were based in later life situations. I highly recommend this as an addition to your library, available for those times when you might need help dealing with the stresses of life. Thank you to NetGalley and New Horizons for the opportunity to read an electronic ARC. It was educational and expect it will be useful.

The Aging Well Workbook recognizes that one’s emotional health changes as they grow older. While the workbook is not a replacement for therapy, anyone over the age of 60 will benefit from the tools and resources shared in this book.

Not only is this book a valuable resource for older adults, but it’s also a helpful tool for those of us who are caring for aging parents.

The Aging Well Workbook is a wonderfully useful informational workbook that middle aged to older adults can use to help them on her healing journey. As a counselor I found this information to be highly accurate with a wonderful background on depression, anxiety and treatments. The tips and tools are relevant and packaged in an easy-to-use format. I think this workbook can be used by someone not currently in therapy but invested in healing. Thank you NetGalley and publishers for the opportunity to review this advanced reader copy.

This is a well-written and easy to understand book filled to overflowing with helpful and practical information on how the reader can develop a skillset to help them deal with anxiety and depression.

The book is filled with strategies, tools and relatable scenarios which help readers better understand the lessons. A true workbook, the reader is encouraged to become actively engaged in the lessons and complete the homework which is part of each chapter. Before you say, "No way, I left homework behind a long time ago!" think for a moment about how much it would be worth to you to lessen your anxiety and/or depression. I have no doubt that you would agree that ANY relief would be priceless. A few minutes spent doing the homework in each chapter seems little to ask for the sense of gaining some quality of life and control over your thoughts back.

I find this book so helpful, that I highlighted and made notes throughout it for later reference. I recommend this workbook highly and give it 5 stars.

My thanks to New Harbinger for permitting me to read a DRC of this book via NetGalley. The book is scheduled to be published November 30, 2023. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and are freely given.

Thank you NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications, Inc. for this arc about how anxiety and depression can be different as you age and the tools to help improve your mental health.

I will admit I didn’t finish this workbook before I did this review. I was close to having read 50% of the book when I saw that it was already for sale and decided to buy it. I have found it that helpful and informative, especially as I am their target audience of someone who is close to being a senior citizen.

As I was reading it, I felt like the authors were talking to me, not at me or down to me or pretending we are friends and they were sharing some secrets just for me. I felt like I was getting help right from the start. It’s easy to read and understand with great explanations and examples. The first three chapters lay a foundation by explaining CBT, anxiety and depression. With that foundation you move on to the different tools and exercises you can use to help you with your mental health.

I believe this is a great resource not only for older adults, but also for their loved ones to read and gain an understanding of how anxiety and depression can show up in later years.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of "The Aging Well Workbook: CBT Skills to Help You Think Flexibly, Manage Anxiety and Depression, and Enjoy Life at Any Age" by Julie Erickson; Neil A Rector. All opinions are my own.

This book provides some great insight and tools to understanding aging and handling those changes that we all experience. I was able to understand and follow the information and would recommend to anyone who is interested in learning more about CBT.

At a time when most of us are struggling with the twin burdens of high-pressure lifestyles and little time for self-care, this workbook holds the potential to have a tremendously positive impact on people's lives and lifestyles.

As individuals age, not only do certain inevitable issues come up in terms of changing bodies, but there are also life transitions to be made as children grow up and leave the home, empty nests, loneliness, divorce, grief and loss become issues that need to be addressed, and require coming to terms with.

This book is based on well established techniques of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and is user-friendly. It can offer practical advice and describes a range of tools with which to handle such situations. By doing so, it also ensures that issues such as anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges can be recognised and remedied to a great extent.

I think that by using the contents of this book wisely, people will be able to improve their cognitive function, mental wellbeing, brain health and quality of life. It is definitely worth reading.

Recently, I have been trying to focus on researching ways to deal with some of the mental health issues that I’ve been struggling with. Which has led to me reading a lot of self-help types of books. The Aging Well Handbook is probably the most encompassing book that I’ve read, but what really set it apart for me was the way that the book covered a vast amount of topics intensively, with an ease of understanding. Each section offered a huge amount of information and tools to help cope and how to implement them. The book is a great first step on the journey to better mental health!

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has become a very popular and effective form of mental health treatment. In this title, the authors, both psychologists, offer CBT help to those who are aging and, at the same time, struggling with anxiety and/or depression. The authors are positive practitioners and guides who offer hope to their readers, while noting that a workbook is not a substitute for face-to-face treatment.

This book is addressed to those who are over sixty. It is noted that issues may present in unique ways in this age group and that there are particular aspects to this life stage.

This title is well organized and clearly written with sections that explain what CBT is and what depression and anxiety can look like. There are then chapters on ways to effect change. To name just two, the authors look at goal setting and self-monitoring.

The authors suggest moving through this book slowly and completing the exercises. Take time, consider each suggested practice and, hopefully, begin to feel more on top of things. Along the way, learn the difference between thoughts, feelings and physical sensations and learn how to rejig some unhelpful patterns of thinking. It may just help!

Many thanks to NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications, Inc. for this title. All opinions are my own.

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Thanks for the ARC, NetGalley. As someone who has recently started therapy, I found this to be an incredibly relevant and important tool. A CBT workbook was exactly what I needed and I'm so excited to discuss this with my therapist during our next appointment - I even hope that I can get her to recommend it to her other patients. I will also be recommending to my other friends who are also on their mental health journey.

You’ve seen one CBT workbook, you’ve seen them all, right? Well, think again! I can’t wait to share this with my therapist and tell her all of the skills that I’ve picked up from this book! Will definitely recommend to my other friends in therapy!

As a counselor, I found this book to be very a very helpful tool. As a middle-age female, I found this book to be a refreshing take on my own aging process. I appreciate that the author takes on this topic is our youth-centric society. Aging is natural, it is inevitable, yet many don’t want to talk about it plainly. I would recommend to anyone who is facing middle age and all that encompasses.