“Focus on changing your relationship with your mind, body,
emotions and life. Do it not because of anxiety, but because there
is something more important to you than anxiety and fear.”
— JoHN P. forsytH, Phd.
F & E: Our book is evidence-based, simple, shorter than most,
practical and still filled with some profound wisdom. It flows
from a perspective known as Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy (ACT). Although ACT is a psychological therapy, it
really is a way of life. It offers an approach to living well even
when life is unkind. It teaches, supported by science, that we do
not need to change what we think and feel to be genuinely
happy and to thrive in life. What we need to do is to change
our relationship with what we think and feel.
P: If you could give a reader one tip for using your
book, what would it be?
F & E: Do the exercises and trust your experience over time,
but don’t do them as another clever way to fight a war with
anxiety. That doesn’t work. Focus on changing your
relationship with your mind, body, emotions and life. Do it
not because of anxiety, but because there is something more
important to you than anxiety and fear. This is about your life
and you living it. n