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The Mindful Freak-Out: A rescue manual for being at your best when life is at its worst

The Mindful Freak-Out: A rescue manual for being at your best when life is at its worst


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The Mindful Freak-Out is written for people who are suffering during emotionally painful moments, such as when:

  • You are facing anxiety or panic that seems to take over your life.
  • The ferocity of anger that you are feeling threatens to damage relationships.
  • Your life feels overwhelming, like you just can’t take it anymore.

When life serves you up an intensely distressing moment (and life will find a way), you are in a competition with your inner ‘threat system’ for control over you. Your threat system will try to take over and make you react impulsively. When this happens, you not only suffer from the painful emotion, but are left with distressing consequences.

The Mindful Freak-Out presents strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to give you the evidence-based tools you need to face highly distressing moments. The goal of these strategies is to soothe your suffering while giving you the inner strength, wisdom, and commitment needed to face the emotional pain in a flexible way that you feel good about (rather than deeply regretting your words or actions later on).

Loaded with practical advice, exercises, and information, this book will help you harness the power of mindfulness and compassion to live your best life, even when intensely painful emotions show up.



Table of Contents:
Contents How to use this book 1 Quick-start guide for responding to highly distressing moments 3 Introduction 9 PART 1: Getting off emotional autopilot (compassionate awareness) 1. When your emotions hijack you 23 2. Notice suffering and slowing down 27 3. Setting an intention to do what is helpful 31 4. Anchoring your attention in the present moment 39 PART 2: Facing painful moments with compassion (compassionate acceptance) 5. The problem with fighting your feelings 61 6. Engaging your compassionate mind 69 7. Compassionate mind training 95 8. Noticing and releasing struggle 115 9. Unhooking from unhelpful thoughts 123 PART 3: Responding based on your Best Self (compassionate action) 10. Noticing and naming urges 141 11. Choosing your Best Self response 149 12. Committing to taking action and noticing the outcome 173 13. Navigating common freak-outs 191 PART 4: Overcoming challenges to acting with compassion 14. Fears, blocks and resistances to compassion 223 15. When things don’t go well: compassionate self-correction vs punishing self-criticism 233 Beyond freaking out Appendix 1: The emotionally distressing moment rescue exercise 245 Appendix 2: Exercise record form 250 Appendix 3: Rescue strategy for being at your best when life is at its worst: brief outline 255 Acknowledgements 257 Endnotes 259 Index 265

About the Author :
Eric Goodman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author, and speaker who specialises in helping people face their social fears and anxiety disorders. In addition to his private practice in San Luis Obispo he is a lecturer at Cal Pol State University.

Review :

“You don’t often see the words ‘mindful’ and ‘freak-out’ in the same sentence, much less think of them as behaviors that can work together. But ADAA member Eric Goodman, PhD, in his latest book, postulates, rightfully so, that there will always be times when we do or feel like we need to “freak out” and that we can actually do so in a mindful way.”


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781922539366
  • Publisher: Exisle Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Exisle Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: A rescue manual for being at your best when life is at its worst
  • ISBN-10: 1922539368
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm


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