The Anxiety Virus
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Endorsements…
“You can’t solve each new crisis that arises. But you can master the ability to tolerate uncertainty. The task is difficult, but it is simple. Spend some time with Jennifer Shannon’s book, and your body and mind will thank you for it.”
Reid Wilson, PhD author of Stopping the Noise in Your Head
“Great suggestions for quieting inner turmoil, complete with specific examples of how we might cope with the challenges of media overload, fearing shortages of toilet paper, taking sniffles as a sign of death, and more. Great reading while you shelter in place!
Dave Carbonell, PhD, “Coach” of the popular self-help site, anxietycoach.com, is the author of Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick
Jennifer Shannon has written a timely, readable and completely relevant guide to managing anxiety in these uncertain times. She has a knack for simple phrases that capture profound truths — such as “let fear metabolize” and “reasonable precaution enables reasonable risk”. Her conversational story-telling style universalizes these insights and guides the reader to a gentle practice of venturing out.
Sally Winston, PsyD, coauthor of Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance-Seeking and Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
By Jennifer Shannon
The Anxiety Virus
3 Essential Strategies to Build Immunity to Uncertainty in the COVID Crisis.
This is not the end of the world. But it is the end of certainty as we’ve known it. With unprecedented instability regarding our health, our jobs, our social connections, even our survival — of course we’re anxious! But our dis-ease does not have to disable us. If we can immunize ourselves to uncertainty, we can start sleeping again, feel confident in our ability to handle things, and discover more flexibility, creativity and joy in our lives.
In The Anxiety Virus, psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon starts at the physiological source of anxiety, the limbic system, which is responsible for the fight-or-flight alarms that make us anxious. She explains that this “monkey mind” needs to adapt to a new level of uncertainty in our lives, and then lays out a clear method for training it.
Shannon’s three essential strategies—one cognitive, one behavioral and one emotional— are designed to help us expand our tolerance for what we cannot control, rather than contract against it with worry and compulsive behavior. They are “essential” strategies because, as Shannon has learned in her decades of working with anxiety disorders, we cannot transform ourselves unless we employ our thoughts, feelings and behavior in unison toward our goal.
Shannon delivers her message in clear, simple language, complemented by lively illustrations and helpful step-by-step practices. Her mission: to get you through this crisis with skills you’ll use the rest of your life. Her promise: when you immunize yourself to uncertainty, your anxiety eases. The more your anxiety eases, the more flexibility, creativity, and resilience will flow–the very qualities we all need in a crisis!
In a pandemic crisis we turn to the epidemiologist for expert guidance. If you’re in an anxiety crisis, you’ll want an expert too. Look no further. Jennifer Shannon LMFT will show you the way.