I received a copy of this via Netgalley for an honest review.

I started this with the hopes of getting a better understanding of something that has been apart of my life for as long as I can remember. After finishing it I now feel like I have that as well as the tools to break the cycle. While reading this it felt as though the author was inside my head and giving words to things I never could. I have never felt this seen and heard in my life without being triggered and am truely so excited to make this C.L.E.A.N.S.E a part of my every day life. I recommend it to anyone interested in a different method to dealing with Anxiety.

Sherianna Boyle describes herself as a spiritual teacher, adjunct psychology professor, and yogi. In Emotional Detox for Anxiety, she presents her theory that anxiety is caused by how we react to and resist emotions rather than just feeling them. She then teaches readers her C.L.E.A.N.S.E. Method, a 7-step emotional detox process to “treat the underlying causes of painful emotions.”

Although I’m sure following the C.L.E.A.N.S.E. could be helpful for some readers, I found the author’s arguments generally unconvincing and the book tedious. Having tried the described C.L.E.A.N.S.E. [Clear, Look Inward, Emit, Activate Joy, Nourish, Surrender, and Ease], I felt minimal benefit. The author claims that most people will not keep up conscious breathing or visualization practices because they can take months to feel the benefits, yet she expects readers to make her C.L.E.A.N.S.E. a daily practice. She claims it will make a difference within minutes, which I did not find to be true for me.

It didn’t help that the unproofed ARC I reviewed was poorly written with too many clunky metaphors; I hope the published version has benefited from a thorough, skillful edit. Also, this is a personal pet peeve, but I cringe seeing periods used in an acronym.

The book includes a glossary of Emotional Detox Terminology, sample C.L.E.A.N.S.E. routines, and a bibliography in the back matter.

The author mentions that readers can download C.L.E.A.N.S.E. guided meditations from her website; note that the audios are available for purchase, which might also add you to the author’s mailing list.

I was provided an unproofed ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

I feel that there was too much reputation for me. I know the author has a similar book that is joy solely focussed on anxiety - perhaps this would have been better served as an an additional chapter update to the previous book.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book is a fantastic straightforward guide to managing anxiety and understanding it and what triggers it.
This book is divided into 3 parts and provides 7 steps in which you can support yourself and help control your anxiety better.
I found this a very interesting and useful guide and will be refering to it again and again.

While this book had helpful information, it also felt highly repetitive. It gave helpful tips as far as feeling and utilizing your emotions to cope with your anxiety on an internal level. However, the author makes a point to say that most "normal" coping mechanisms people use to deal with anxiety aren't useful in the long term and that her C.L.E.A.N.S.E method is most helpful. When it reality, her C.L.E.A.N.S.E method is just another way to cope with anxiety, just in a way that she considers to be the "correct" way. In reality, I feel like there is no "wrong" way for people to handle their anxiety, as long as it doesn't involve self-destructive behaviors.

Overall, this book was lack luster. By the time the author got to the '7 steps' I'd read through so much fluff that I was starting to skim. The chapters go off on tangents of -past clients, unneeded side stories, and the author trying to prove herself to the reader- way too often. It became cumbersome to decipher what the actual steps were and how to preform them.

Obviously I picked this book up because I have anxiety and am interested in ways to release it, I don't need 7+ chapters on why I should read this particular book or why I should trust the 7 steps will work. Just get to the meat of it, and cut out all the 'here's how I developed this method' nonsense.

At some point in the future I may revisit this book and skip to the back where the steps are literately listed, but for now I need to detox from this over wordy read.

Such a helpful book for anyone who suffers with anxiety. Loved the practical, pragmatic approach to handling anxiety.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

I really liked the book, i think everyone struggles with anxiety at some point in his/her life so it was a great read.

Emotional Detox for Anxiety is a fantastic book for people who deal with anxiety. I would buy this for anyone who has anxiety.

This is a very helpful book with great ideas and tips on managing anxiety. I highly recommend it to anyone who struggles with anxiety.

This book was received as an ARC from Adams Media in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I was waiting for a book like this to come out because we always get questions on improving mental health and with a donation for our self-help collection we are always looking for new titles that have the latest research in improving mental health especially managing emotions. Sherianna Boyle came up with some clever sayings especially the CLEANSE acronym ( Clear, Look Inward, Emit, Activate Joy, Nourish, Surrender, and Ease) in describing the 7 steps. I also love when an author incorporates a personal experience in each of the steps because in my opinion the reader can easily grasp on to learning the concept rather than relying solely on explanation. This book will definitely be popular with our community and will be heavily circulated.

We will consider adding this title to our Self-Help collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars..

Fabulous book for those looking for some reading relating to moving on and past old hurts. Emotional detox is right, brilliant.

This is bad. The actual "emotional detox" is just about 80 pages of this over 200-page book. Before the author gets into the actual gist of the book, there is a lengthy explanation of what anxiety is, what causes it, that we need the magical cleanse method the author invented, why is that method awesome, etc. Also, that one shouldn't skip ahead to the 7 steps, even though that is why people pick this book up. I think that most people who pick up a self-help book about anxiety, have at least the understanding what it is and know (or think), they suffer from it. A short chapter explaining what and why would be okay, but hundred pages repeating the same things over and over is not. And if someone picks up this book, they are probably already keen on believing this method and think it will help them. I don't think it's necessary to tell the reader over and over how amazing it is and that they need it. The person who tries to use it, should be the judge of that after they use it, not being told before they even know what it really is.

The author also says at some point that coping methods are not really that great because they don't deal with the root of the problem and calm you at that moment but not in a long run. "Coping only gives a temporary boost, while processing emotions (via an emotional detox) restores energy for the long term" (26). After you finally get to her method, you realise the steps actually are the healthy coping mechanisms. I don't think it's anything revolutionary and I don't think that the steps in this book are any more profound or helpful than what's been around for a long time. I've definitely seen most of the techniques in this book before, and though it can be helpful to have all of those in one book written as a set of steps, it's nothing new.

The book takes too long before getting to the point, the author pats herself on the back way too much and the information given is nowhere near to revolutionary. I think someone can access the same information by googling 'how to cope with anxiety' or something.

An arc was kindly provided to me by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I have terrible anxiety. To the point that I’m amazed that I go to work. This book came at the perfect time in my life.

My anxiety? It's bad. Really really bad. It causes me stress, takes away my sleep, and honestly makes me wish there were a cure. If I could take a pill to cast it away I would, but alas life is not too kind.

I love reading self help books because they highlight an important fact: I am not alone.

These thoughts are not foreign, I'm not fabricating them, I am not suffering by myself. No, millions of people have anxiety and millions of people get through it everyday.

I am not alone.

One important piece I got from this book is that people with anxiety get into a habit of thinking their feelings are invalid or frivolous. I can't tell you how many times I've cast away my emotions because I believe I am over exaggerating. I learned that that is actually very bad lol. It's the resistance to feeling that exacerbates your anxiety.
It is okay to feel, it's okay to let go.

This book is pretty great, it goes into coping mechanisms which yup, I have em and the sources of anxiety such as genetic factors which *looks at father* definitely. The author has a method called C.L.E.A.N.S.E. which you can read more about when you read this book. Overall, I felt that this is a good guide and taught me a lot more about anxiety and the methods in which you can handle them. It provides you good skills to learn and grow from and I will definitely be purchasing this myself for whenever I feel hazy with stress and worry. Life is hard. It's okay to want to feel better and be better.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this copy of my ARC. All opinions are my very own.