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Managing Worry and Anxiety

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"Managing Worry and Anxiety"  by Jean Holthaus is a Christian living book. She is a licensed  therapist and has  lots of experience working  with anxious people.  She  explains   what anxiety is and  uses research.   She  tells  what the medical  treatments including medicines  that can  be used  to help  patients.  She  shared practical step by  step approaches to help patients. She  also  shares how peoples view of  God can be distorted and  hurt their   daily lives.  She  gives examples of  how  God worked in the Bible and how  that can encourage us to have a deeper relationship with Him. She  even shared some examples  when she has worried and how it  has  hurt her .She  shared how she could have  done things differently so she did not  worry. She  also  shows   ways  we think  that can  promote worrying. She  helps  us change those faulty thinking patterns  with good examples. This  book is  a good resource for  therapists, counselors, any Christian , pastors. This book  was given to me by  netgalley and the publisher  for review purposes.  The opinions about the book are  my own.
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Managing Worry and Anxiety: Practical Tools to Help You Deal with Life's Challenges by Jean Holthaus is a helpful book to help with anxiety and worry. I liked that author is a therapist so she can give you practical solutions but also brings faith into it. I think they all go together. As someone who can struggle with worry and anxiety at times, I am always on the lookout for good resources like this one. She gives you tools to help you fight the battle. 

I was blessed to receive an electronic copy via the publisher. All opinions are my own.
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The book help you to understand what is worry, anxiety and how it manifests in people's lives emotionnally, physically.
It explains how our view of God can have effects on our anxiety and gives you the tools you need to deal with it.
The book is full with details regarding our body, our brain and how it works when we are anxious or worried.
It can be interesting for those who want to understand the causes of stress, anxiety and the reaction of people who go through trauma or difficult times in their lives.
It was hard for me to get through this book, I could not finish it.
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