Master Your Fears: How to Triumph Over Your Worries and Get on with Your Life
Linda Sapadin
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1620458144
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
""Dr. Sapadin's fascinating guide to mastering our fears and constant worries is essential reading for these times. She offers readers a practical and powerful set of guidelines for taking control of their strong emotions and building a better life in the process.""
-Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D., professor, Stanford University, and past president of the American Psychological Association
""Master Your Fears is a valuable self-help book written in clear language, with excellent advice, engaging quizzes, creative exercises and lots of anecdotes about people with all types of fears. Dr. Sapadin supportively explains the fearful lifestyle-and how to change the pattern. She connects with readers, venturing beyond theory and case studies, by openly discussing her own fears and how she overcame them. A must-read if you want to lighten your fear and brighten your life.""
-Carol Goldberg, Ph.D., host and producer of the award-winning TV program Dr. Carol Goldberg and Company
""In this helpful book, Dr. Sapadin does not take a one-size-fits- all approach to the multifaceted experience of fear. Rather, she provides the reader with concrete, creative suggestions for mastering fears based on one's fear style. She also includes simple but powerful assignments that help you create positive change in your life. I will be recommending this book to my clients, friends and all those who allow fear to inhibit their lives.""
-Pauline Wallin, Ph.D., author of Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide for Transforming Self-Defeating Behavior
""An inspiring, empowering book that will help any reader who has been paralyzed by fear or overwhelmed by a disorganized and chaotic way of living. Master Your Fears provides an abundance of creative yet practical advice on how to change self-defeating emotions and behaviors and leave your fears behind. I highly recommend it!""
-Barry J. Izsak, president of the National Association of Professional Organizers
""Master Your Fears is an excellent book for all those who are living a fearful lifestyle. Dr. Sapadin successfully blends effective strategies for conquering fears with a comprehensive approach for achieving life satisfaction and happiness.""
-Elizabeth K. Carll, Ph.D., president
Media Psychology Division, American Psychological Association
process wavers. You may feel as if you’re stuck with the same old problems in the same old ways. You may feel restless, annoyed, or impatient with yourself or other people. You may feel calm and wonderful one week, then confused the next about whether you’re making any progress at all. You may get sidetracked. You may feel that the road is too bumpy or aimless, or that you’ve reached a plateau and can’t go any further. Rest easy. Change is complex, and it’s not at all uncommon for people to feel
taste in your mouth and the smell of the fruit. 10. Describe these sensations as you listen to the sounds you make chewing the apple. What do you notice? To some people, this may seem like a silly exercise, something without purpose, even weird. But if you’ve done it—not just read about it, but actually done it—you now know what losing your mind and coming to your senses is. It’s a way of turning off the mental drone and hum that often intensifies our fears and, instead, opening up to simpler
describe your fear—without censoring yourself—what would it be? ____________________ 6. Imagine that someone could be there for you when you’re feeling so frightened. Whom would you turn to? How could he or she help you? Here’s who I’d want to be present: ____________________________ And here’s how he or she could help me: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 7. What thoughts easily trigger your
afraid. I’m trying to keep sane, but there’s so much worry in the pit of my stomach. I don’t know what to do.” I told Kelly the first thing she needed to do was to relax. Nothing that she mentioned needed to be attended to right away. The house wasn’t on fire, her daughter didn’t need to be rushed to the hospital, her husband had hired an attorney to help him with his problem, no bombs were falling. Right now Kelly needed to focus on Kelly. Before we tackled any relaxation exercises, though, I
Her demeanor changed at once. “Oh yes,” she said. “I had so much fun with my sister. Sometimes we’d dress up like fancy ladies having tea. Sometimes we acted out a Mary Poppins story, always with a new adventure.” I gazed at Lila and wondered what she would be like today if she were not so fearful of being judged as inadequate. If, instead of inhibiting an action because of the fear, she took an action in spite of the fear. If, instead of feeling envious of others’ achievements, she turned that