Learning to Thrive: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook

by Giulia Suro

It's time to ACT—Acceptance and Commitment Therapy made simple.

Now Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can be easy. Learning to Thrive simplifies this ordinarily complex self-acceptance therapy and helps you apply its action-oriented principles directly to different aspects of your life.

Filled with straightforward and intuitive exercises, Learning to An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook helps you stop thinking of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions as negative and start learning to understand and relate to them in a new way—so you can make meaningful changes to your life. Whether you're looking for ways to improve your personal life, work, or health, you'll find the tools and insights that can help you do it. It's time to get unstuck and start thriving!

This Acceptance and Commitment Therapy workbook

A practical approach—Understand (and accept) yourself using a workbook that gives you the tools you need to make real, impactful changes.Solutions for everyday concerns—Apply the lessons of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to specific parts of your life thanks to chapters focused around family, wellness, personal growth, and more.ACT made easy—Keep things simple with techniques written specifically for people new to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy—no psych textbooks needed.Discover how you can truly accept yourself and bring positive change to your life with Learning to An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction, Mental Health

178 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2019

Reviews

[Bonnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Learning to Thrive - An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook” is meant to act as a platform to simplify self-acceptance therapy through intuitive exercises. It is literally meant to help the reader learn to relate to their thoughts, feelings and emotions in a more positive manner.

Note: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is referred to as ACT in this book.

I appreciate the way in which this book is organized – there are separate sections devoted to specific life areas: family and personal life; health and wellness; community and social life; work, hobbies, and vocation; personal growth, and spirituality.

This system helps individuals to change their life into what they want it to be. (Note: At the beginning of the book reference contacts are given for help lines that deal with emergency mental health situations.) Throughout the book various exercises are presented to help the reader determine what it is that they really want. The chapters are very specific, so the reader can head straight to the life area that they want to work on at any time. Core values are discussed, and real life personal stories are presented in a way that the reader can easily connect with them. At the beginning of each chapter is a listing of what that chapter can help the reader with, at end of each chapter highlights are given for that chapter.

This is a very practical workbook that gives the reader useful tools with which to make changes in their life that have a positive impact, that allow the reader to see themselves, and their life, in a whole new context. It can be applied to very specific issues and areas of life, and is presented in a very clear, straightforward manner that allows anyone, even those new to ACT. The final chapter shows the reader how to bring it all together in their own life. At the end of the book are bonus work sheets, references, and an index. I give this book two thumbs up!

Please note: I received a copy of this book for review from the publisher.

[joyce w. laudon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This title is about a particular type of therapy that many people have found to be helpful. The author offers readers the opportunity to understand what is entailed in this treatment, known as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She then offers a number of exercises that readers can explore.
This title is divided into sections including those on family and personal life; health and wellness; and Spirituality for example. There are eight chapters in all. Each can standalone, allowing readers to spend time on the areas that are of most interest to them or a reader can progress in the given order. There are additional resources at the end of the book.
The author, a clinical psychologist, states that her goal is to help people become “unstuck.” If you could use that kind of help, take a look.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own.

[Jonni Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

I use this book in my clinical practice to complement core values activities. I found it helpful in my own life as well as many of my clients end up purchasing the book for themselves as they enjoyed it so much in our therapy sessions. The most helpful part was having the separate life domains (family, personal life, health & wellness, community, etc., spelled out with specific activities around each domain. The book assisted me and my clients with decision-making goal setting and even goal attainment. Suro goes beyond the usual values activities and takes us through authentic committed action via ACT-Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I would have appreciated a thorough reference section with citations from evidence based sources; this was an oversight that perhaps keeps he book from being five stars.

[Shannon Binegar-Foster · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this to be a great workbook. It was well thought out and included all the pertinent questions. I find myself referring back to it often.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Therapy-focused workbooks are a great way to do some "homework" between sessions, or to focus one's thoughts in order to fine-tune goals and actions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is new to me: each chapter helps with goal-setting and then allows the reader to have honest conversations with herself about whether those goals are being met and how they might change their thinking and their commitments to get closer to those goals. This practical guide focuses on family, personal life, health, wellness, community, social life, work, hobbies, vocation, personal growth, and spirituality.