
Overcoming Anxiety and Stress
CBT, ACT, and MBCT Protocols
By Gildas Garrec · 230 pages · 2025
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About this book
An eight-week CBT program exploring anxiety, rumination and panic attacks. Practical exercises in breathing, thought patterns and gradual exposure, without a promise of recovery.
Your anxiety feels uncontrollable, and you no longer know whether it's you or your body racing for no reason? This eight-week structured program is grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you regain control, whether you're dealing with generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, social phobia, or invasive rumination. Week by week, you'll learn to understand the vicious cycle between thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, tame anxious thoughts through cognitive restructuring, practice relaxation and breathing techniques, then move on to gradual exposure to feared situations. The final weeks address rumination and procrastination, acceptance and values (ACT), before you build your own personal relapse-prevention plan. Grounded in solid scientific data — anxiety disorders affect roughly one in five people in France — this guide treats anxiety not as an enemy to fight, but as a dysregulated biological signal that you can gradually learn to regulate again, one week at a time.
Table of contents
- 1The 8-Week CBT Program — Daily Exercises and Evidence-Based Techniques
- 2Crisis resources
- 3INTRODUCTION — Understanding Anxiety and Using This Program
- 4CHAPTER 1 — WEEK 1: Understanding My Anxiety
- 5CHAPTER 2 — WEEK 2: The Vicious Cycle of Thoughts, Emotions, and Body
- 6CHAPTER 3 — WEEK 3: Taming Anxious Thoughts
- 7CHAPTER 4 — WEEK 4: Relaxation and Breathing
- 8CHAPTER 5 — WEEK 5: Gradual Exposure
- 9CHAPTER 6 — WEEK 6: Rumination and Procrastination
- 10CHAPTER 7 — WEEK 7: Acceptance and Values (ACT)
- 11CHAPTER 8 — WEEK 8: My Relapse Prevention Plan
- 12CONCLUSION — Beyond the Eight Weeks
- 13BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 14In the Same Collection
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