Get Out of Your Mind  Into Your Life..., Spencer Smith
Get Out of Your Mind  Into Your Life..., Spencer Smith
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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life
The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Author: Spencer Smith, Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/05/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new approach to
psychotherapy that rethinks even our most basic assumptions of mental well-being. Starting with the assumption that the normal condition of human existence is suffering and struggle, ACT works by first encouraging individuals to accept their lives as they are in the here and now. This acceptance is an antidote to the problem of avoidance, which ACT views as among the greatest risk factors for unnecessary suffering and poor mental health. The process of ACT includes help for individuals to identify a set of core values, a personal set of objectives that matters to them personally. The therapy then encourages the individual to commit to behavior that furthers these values despite
potentially painful emotional obstacles.

Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life offers a five-step plan for coping with painful emotions such as anxiety and depression. It teaches you how to learn life-enhancing behavior strategies that work to
further the goals you value most. You'll learn to engage with and overcome painful thoughts and feelings with step-by-step acceptance and mindfulness-based techniques. You'll find out how to let go of control, and develop compassion and flexibility. The realization that painful feelings cannot be controlled will open you to the possibility of fully emotional living. Once present, engaged, and aware, you can begin to build new lives for yourself filled with significance and meaning. This
book is not about overcoming pain or fighting emotions; it's about
embracing life and feeling everything it has to offer. In this way, it offers a way out of suffering by choosing to live a life based on what matters most.

About Spencer Smith

Spencer Smith is a freelance writer and editor based in Santa Rosa, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan

Game Changer. Must Read......more

This is far and away the most usefull and insightful self help/therapy book I have ever used. I chose the word "used" over "read" quite intentionally. I did not use it in a vacuum- rather did it while in therapy with a trained ACT therapist. That isn't to say that it couldn't be helpful on its own.......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

Steven C. Hayes' "acceptance and commitment therapy," or ACT, is the "you are not your thoughts" philosophy of cognitive behavioral therapy with a different label slapped on top of it. I found this book pedantic and dry, which is really not a necessary component of a self-help book. In fact, I would......more

My friend, a professional psychologist, recommended this book after we had a glass or two of wine, and when I started opening up for some existential stuff that occasionally bothers me. The feeling of extreme insufficiency given all the things that should matter, constant lack of time, too much mail......more