Outsmart Your Anxious Brain—A Free Chapter

"Counter-Intuitive" Strategies to Help You Put Worry in its Place

We live in an “age of anxiety” in which about 45 million Americans—and hundreds of millions of people around the globe—suffer with a chronic anxiety disorder. In this book, I will show you how people with all manner of troubles with worry, fear, panic, and anxiety can outsmart the tricks that anxiety and worry persistently throw at them with ten practical responses. When you learn to notice the trick inherent in your anxiety and develop the habit of responding with a counter­intuitive response, that’s when you can return your time, attention, and energy to all the interests and activities that used to be important to you before the trick of chronic anxiety entered your life. I’ll show you ten simple ways you can defuse, rather than oppose, the anxiety that troubles you so.

—David A. Carbonell, PhD