Unfortunately, I ran out of time to read and review this book during the time I borrowed the ARC. I have since received another copy and thought I would come back here to offer feedback, although I must be upfront and say I did not read it 100% cover-to-cover. I didn't enjoy it or find it particularly useful, so found myself skipping chunks of it. The advice is very generic, with little substance for anyone with more than low-level bouts of anxiety. The sections are short - not even the length of a blog post - and lack depth. I guess this is okay if you're looking for a book to dip in and out of, but for me, it fell flat. I appreciate the author's desire to help others to manage their anxiety. However, this book comes off as lacking in effort, and I think this works against the author's intention. At best, the author lacks understanding of the reality of living with chronic anxiety and anxiety disorders. At worst, this book comes off as a quick "influencer" cash-grab from vulnerable people.

The premise of the book is great and the author really delivers. Great read. Highly recommended. .

Anxiety is a universal language that soo many people have come to learn. Unfortunately not everyone is able to handle it as well as other. Some need coping mechanisms others may need medical intervention.

This book was an amazing tool to help me own and learn how to handle my anxiety in ways I didn’t know that I could.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and Netgalley for the gifted review copy. All opinions are my own.

Easy-to-read, "clear-cut accomplishables" (quoted from the TV show New Girl). For those who struggle with mild or temporary anxious thoughts, this concise guide provides more thorough advice than one might find in an online article, while not overwhelming the reader with cumbersome jargon.

I tried to read this book a couple different times and ultimately, I couldn’t get through this book. The book was not helpful in addressing anxiety and boring to read.

There are so many self help books out there for people who struggle with anxiety. This one was really nice and simple. It had a bunch of great ideas how to cope and make anxiety easier. It had many practices I already practice and it felt reassuring to know I am not alone and these methods actually help others.

I received a complimentary copy of this title from the publisher through NetGalley. Opinions expressed are my own.

Oh boy. If I had a physical copy of this, I would launch it over a cliff into the sea.

Do yoga, drink water, quit smoking/drinking. Sure, these are helpful suggestions for your average person, but they're not going to cure a medical mental illness.

As someone who struggles with anxiety, I really resonated with this book. It gave a lot of practical advice that I can take away to my daily life. Overall, would highly recommend for anyone who struggles with anxiety.

It has a lot not basic tips and ideas for battling anxiety consolidated into one book. Some of them seem to come from a place of extreme privilege (spending years at a time in another country, having a yogi and rabbi basically on call), so it may be hard for people without those connections to feel comfortable. I did find some useful tips and I think it would be a great read for someone just learning to deal with their anxiety.

As some context I have severe anxiety, panic, and OCD. When I read about the premise of this book, I was excited because I’ve heard a lot about “making friends with your mental illness” lately and I wanted to hear about how to do it. That was not this book. Instead, I feel like I got very basic and common tips for how to make anxiety less debilitating. I know the author says he has anxiety but I felt like the impact on ones life was really downplayed. It made we wonder if the author actually had a severe anxiety disorder or more of just an anxious personality. These things are different. I felt like a lot of the advice was a little condescending. Yes, I understand eating healthy is generally good advice or putting down your phone, but those things will not cure an anxiety disorder. I just felt like this book honestly was an expanded version of a Wikipedia page on anxiety and it didn’t need to be a full book. Thanks to netgalley for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was an interesting book. I thought the information presented was well laid out and flowed well. I really enjoyed reading it and want to try and start implementing some of what I read.

I struggled quite a bit while reading this book. It does contain a lot of tips of how to handle your anxiety, but most of these tips you can readily find online. There wasn't really a clear structure of the advises; felt like they are just randomly put together as they come along. Most importantly, it only tells you what you SHOULD do, but didn't really dive deep on HOW on a lot of the advises. Saying quitting drugs/drinking will help your anxiety isn't really the most helpful advise without explaining how one should go about it. I also felt the writing to be a bit pretentious, like someone pretending to be sincere because he felt like he had to.

*I have received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review.*

Review:
My whole life has been plagued by anxiety, as well as difficult depression in the recent 3 years. Commonly, articles found on the internet or most books teach you to calm your breath and ignore the thoughts and move on. Own Your Anxiety is a different book. Own Your Anxiety teaches you exactly as it advertises, to own your anxiety. Not to let it control you. In a sense, you gain empowerment with yourself by owning what you have as opposed to hiding or fearing from it.

The Good:
I learned many useful coping mechanisms for handling bouts of anxiety and oncoming panic attacks. This book is broken into sections, and each section a subsection of different tolls and steps you can take. Like most anxiety-handling books, it discusses breathing techniques, taking part in yoga, taking relaxing baths, etc. But it also discusses affirmations to keep in mind when you feel anxiety coming. For anyone who has not yet read a book regarding coping with anxiety, this is the perfect book to START off reading. It gives you small summaries of helpful tips. From there, you can practice and learn which coping techniques work for you. If you discover you like yoga a lot when handling anxiety, then you can move on from this book and find other helpful yoga for depression and anxiety (I know for a fact they have specific books like this, as I currently have one on my couch).

The Bad:
While Own Your Anxiety provides some helpful tips, it also includes generic tips (see above) that for anyone that has used the internet or read other coping books, they basically have those tips memorized. I was able to skim past many of the coping mechanisms as I have heard them before and know whether or not it works. It's pointless to beat the dead horse so to speak. Also, for anyone that has chronic anxiety and depression, a great lot of this will NOT work for them, let alone be even a thoughtful option for them to try. Ex. Get a mani/pedi. Some people have anxiety related to financial situations. Or they can't drive to a spa. Or they just flat out don't have the money. I am a full time student, mother of a toddler and infant, and have a full time job. What little time I do get for myself is not enough to go to the nail salon. And personally, that doesn't relax me enough to ease an anxiety attack. I felt like that of all tips was the most useless and pointless thing.

The takeaway:
For anyone with mild to moderate anxiety, this book can become a great baby-steps tool book for you. It is not one to rely heavily on though. Think of it as a baby walker, helping you get your bearings and take your first steps so that once you have an idea how to handle anxiety, or things that work for you, you can buy a more thorough and indepth coping book. If you have more moderate to severe anxiety and depression, do not bother to pick this up. Or if you have already read several online articles, books, or you utilise the website themighty.com then you DEFINITELY will not need this book as it will honestly only reiterate what you already have read and know.

Does Anxiety take over your life ??
Do you feel like you have no control over it ??
Do you feel like you everything around you is falling apart, because of your anxiety ??

If you any of the above feelings, then this book is for you. Even though the tips like "Breathe", "Limit your social media", "Smile" and so on seem to be very common nowadays, I felt like the book is a go-to for acute anxieties and does give you relief from time to time. Personally, the most impactful tip for me was "Yoga and Breathe".

Also, I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for an honest review of the book.

I initially struggled with whether to give this book two stars or three stars.

The reason I considered giving it three? Because there is actually a lot of good advice in this book. The reason that I ultimately decided on giving it just two stars? Because the advice in this book is more about how to live a happier, more peaceful life than about how to actually deal with anxiety.

Again, there's nothing wrong with that. Most people would benefit from following a lot of the advice offered here and they'd find ways to be happier and more calm. However, anxiety is often a very horrible and incredibly difficult thing for people to deal with.

A lot of the advice offered in this book, things like "smile more" and "don't text while you drive" may be good advice, but it's not going to be very helpful for people suffering with anxiety.

This is an okay book, but maybe it would have been better if the author and publisher had presented it as a book on life tips rather than one on how to own/master anxiety.

*I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for a fair review.

I loved how this book spun something regarded as a negative (anxiety) and turned it into something that could be mastered to create a positive aspect. This was a unique take and I really appreciated the information provided. Anxiety can be challenging but this book is one that will make the reader say “challenge accepted.”

This is a book that has 99 tips/things to do to help with anxiety. Some information in the tip. A lot of it is some sort of self-care that could be found online - through does explain the tip here. It can be helpful if wanting a physical book to hold and look at. A nice book overall.

Own Your Anxiety provides a comprehensive list of helpful tips to becoming better at managing anxiety and reducing anxiety in our daily lives, in a perpetual positive tone and manner of thinking. To me, the only problem with this book was that these are primarily well-known tips that you can easily find online and that I was aware of most of them.

Overall, Own Your Anxiety wasn't particularly helpful to me but it might be for someone else. If you have trouble dealing with your anxiety, then I definitely recommend this book.

Disappointed by this book. As someone who has dealt with both social anxiety and general anxiety their entire life, I hoped to see something a little more original in this book. To be told to just breathe is honestly offensive. Anyone who has experienced anxiety and not just stress, should know how to deal with such tips a little more tactfully. I had high hopes for this since the author experienced anxiety himself, but I was left feeling extremely underwhelmed.

This book conflates stress and acute anxiety. If you are truly suffering from acute anxiety, tips such as "smile" or "get a mani-pedi" aren't going to cut it. Disappointed.