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Facing the Storm: Using CBT, Mindfulness and Acceptance to Build Resilience When Your World's Falling Apart
Highly Commended in the 2012 BMA Book Awards
We live in a world where bad things can, and do, happen irrespective of whether we are good or bad, whether we consider ourselves lucky or doomed, and with no regard to fairness. Any of us can find ourselves facing redundancy, the breakdown of a relationship, bankruptcy or any number of life changing crises, or supporting someone else who is. And sometimes, no matter how much we might try, there’s nothing we can do to prevent or reduce the problem.
But that doesn't mean you have to be helpless; no matter how bad the situation you're about to deal with, there are things that you can do to become more resilient and that will help you face the storm that's coming towards you or yours.
Using Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) techniques and the latest developments in mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches, this practical guide will take you through each stage of preparing for, enduring and recovering from a major life crisis helping you better understand what's going on, and providing new tools for dealing with the situation.
When there's a storm coming towards you, and you can't escape it, then you have to prepare to face it. Here's how.
We live in a world where bad things can, and do, happen irrespective of whether we are good or bad, whether we consider ourselves lucky or doomed, and with no regard to fairness. Any of us can find ourselves facing redundancy, the breakdown of a relationship, bankruptcy or any number of life changing crises, or supporting someone else who is. And sometimes, no matter how much we might try, there’s nothing we can do to prevent or reduce the problem.
But that doesn't mean you have to be helpless; no matter how bad the situation you're about to deal with, there are things that you can do to become more resilient and that will help you face the storm that's coming towards you or yours.
Using Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) techniques and the latest developments in mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches, this practical guide will take you through each stage of preparing for, enduring and recovering from a major life crisis helping you better understand what's going on, and providing new tools for dealing with the situation.
When there's a storm coming towards you, and you can't escape it, then you have to prepare to face it. Here's how.
- GenresPsychology
218 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2012
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June 2, 2022
Really good introduction on ways to deal with a crisis, applying principles from palliative care to other big changes and losses people may face. Written as a self-help book but useful for therapists supporting individuals facing a personal crisis. It was packed with ideas some of which I would have liked to be unpacked more but it’s a useful introduction of methods open for further reading. I would have maybe appreciated a bit more practice exercises like the one the author used for defusion or identifying a value. Overall the book presents a great introduction and overview and I would recommend it to people facing a big life change or a loss as well as therapists and social workers supporting individuals with personal crises in individual work.
February 19, 2026
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