This text provides a pleasurable reading experience by elucidating the concept of anxiety in straightforward language, detailing its causes. Additionally, it offers valuable strategies and methods for managing anxiety effectively.

As someone who struggles with anxiety and many recent flare ups, it was perfectly timed to come upon this book.
As I topic I've yearned to try understanding due how it affects me and many others. This is the first one I've read that I truly understand and can comprehend. Written in a way that you absorb the words and meaning. My heart is full of gratitude to Richard Gilpin for writing this book that is deep, insightful and helpful. Thank you.

This beautiful book is written as a guided mindfulness practice for anxiety. It explains the origins of anxiety, how it relates to other mental health disorders, how to combat anxiety through mindfulness and different exercises for you to try. The author also includes his own experience with anxiety and shows how it can show up in different scenarios. It was a really interesting read, full of wonderful quotes and descriptions. While I don't recommend just using this book alone, it can definitely aide someone going through tough times or people that are in therapy. I really liked it.


Thank you to the publisher and author for sending me this book.

Anxiety is a societal epidemic at this point. I didn't really know what to expect going into Gilpin's book, and I often find books written to help those with anxiety come off as a little preachy and condescending. I was pleasantly surprised, then, to find that this was not at all one of those books. I truthfully have never read anything that delved so deeply into the psychology behind anxiety, why it's useful, and the ways that it can help or harm us. I guess the first step to finding your path through an obstacle is to understand it, and that is exactly what Gilpin's book helped me do.

Anxiety is complex and I think this author did a great job of conveying that. I appreciate the exercises and learned quite a bit about mindfulness. Overall, an honest and well thought out introduction to anxiety.

An excellent read for any and all readers! Author comes at you with both barrels and knocks you out of your shoes! Great job fleshing out all the characters. I give this book FIVE stars! Definitely recommend!

Some good tips about anxiety, and useful meditation examples.
I expected more, but I am sure, especially those who have just started reading on this topic and working on anxiety can find more value in this book.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. This book is broken down well, making it easily digestible. I like the quotes dotted throughout and there’s also some great exercises such as Deconstructing Anxiety and Containing Catastrophe both of which are in handy boxes which break them out of the text well. Overall, this is a great short guide to start to target anxiety.

I enjoyed reading this and I have some useful tips now for mindful practice. It didn’t speak wholly to my experience of anxiety but it is such a complex issue that perhaps this is no surprise. The author uses his lived experience to explain some helpful concepts and techniques in dealing with this outcome of being alive. Worth a read.

An enjoyable read which explained in simple terms what anxiety is and why it happens. It also gave some great ideas and techniques to deal with anxiety which I will definitely be using in the future.
Thanks to NetGalley, Richard Gilpin and Quarto Publishing Group - Leaping Hare for an advance copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.