Patricia Zurita Ona – författare

Being a teenager can be A LOT. Between school stress, friendships, social media, family, trying to fit in, and the pressure to figure out what you're going to do with your life, it's no surprise that anxiety can feel overwhelming.This workbook, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), will teach you to sit with the feeling of anxiety and gain new skills so that you don't fall into the trap of avoidance and safety behaviors. Empowered by exposure exercises and strategies for accepting your emotions, you'll confront your anxiety and stop it from shrinking your world.You don't need to "just stop being anxious" or "stop overthinking" - you need evidence-based ACT skills to thrive in life while feeling anxious, uncertain, worried, and stressed. Full of practical and fun activities, this workbook helps you manage your anxiety and build a life that feels meaningful, exciting, and fulfilling.

This workbook, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), teaches teens with OCD new skills to handle the stream of pesky obsessions that show up in their mind.It presents the Choice Point - a tool to help teens choose how to handle those tricky moments when dealing with unwanted thoughts. Chapter by chapter, teens learn powerful skills to unhook from their obsessions, including exposure exercises and strategies for accepting their emotions, and complete activities to help them overcome their compulsions, avoidant behaviors, and requests for accommodations. With real-life examples and tons of fun activities, this workbook shows that fears, worry and nervousness are a part of life and gives teens the skills to choose how to respond to their obsessions and move towards the stuff they really care about. Making applying ACT and ERP skills fun, it encourages them to face their fears and live life to the full.

Procrastination has nothing to do with laziness or passivity. Nor is about learning endless productivity hacks. It's about not-knowing how to manage the psychological processes that drive you to procrastinate.This workbook, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, helps you to understand why you put things off, and more importantly, how to overcome these patterns. From the first to the last chapter you'll learn to compassionately recognize and tackle the roots of procrastinating behaviors while practicing essential psychological skills. You'll learn to tame all that mental noise that pops up when you're facing important stuff-whether it's work, hobbies, or anything else you care about before diving into action.Whether you're facing looming deadlines or day-to-day demands, these pages provide you with the tools you need to move from abstract intentions to values-based actions.Learn to align your actions with your values, get things done, and build a life you're truly proud of.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by your emotions? Ever been told that you’re ‘too sensitive’ or ‘overreacting’? You are not alone – millions of people go through the same struggle. Escaping the Emotional Rollercoaster will help readers understand and manage their emotional responses to situations.Many of us feel like our emotions are controlling us and we can’t seem to dial them back. Whether you’ve reacted in ways that you’ve later regretted, or you simply struggle to understand why you’re feeling the way you are, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Drawing on her years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Zurita Ona provides a clear and simple roadmap for every ‘super-feeler’. Using the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as well as aspects of positive psychology, you will learn to implement values-based behavior. Along the way, you will become adept at skills such as self-acceptance, forgiveness, compassion, mindfulness, and conflict resolution.Super-feelers will discover that they are more than their emotions and that no matter how intense the situation, they can always choose to act in a way that is consistent with their personal values, in order to experience fulfilling, loving and caring relationships. If you want to stop feeling like you’re at the mercy of your emotions, Escaping the Emotional Rollercoaster is the guide for you.