The Worry Cure
by Robert L. Leahy
Leahy's seven-step program for chronic worriers: identify productive versus unproductive worry, accept uncertainty, challenge the belief that worry protects you, schedule worry time, and face the feared outcome. It is cognitive therapy made practical for the specific problem of worry and it works for a lot of people.
Read it if…
you worry constantly and have come to believe it is useful.
Skip it if…
your anxiety is panic or phobia rather than worry; other books target those.
Three things you will actually use
- Worry is not preparation.
- Accept uncertainty; demanding certainty keeps you worrying.
- Ask: is this worry productive? If not, postpone it.
Do this first
Schedule twenty minutes of worry time daily; defer every worry outside it to that slot.
Our verdict
Practical and targeted.
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