ACTivate Your Life: Using acceptance and mindfulness to build a life that is rich, fulfilling and fun

by Joe Oliver, Jon Hill, Eric Morris

ACTivate Your Life focuses on helping people to be more open, connected and engaged with their lives, demonstrating how Acceptance Commitment Therapy can be used to tackle a range of problems such as low self-esteem, anxiety, anger and depression, as well as providing skills for life enhancement and self-development.

Readers are encouraged to consider what matters to them and will learn techniques to set life directions based on meaningful values. Readers will also be introduced to mindfulness and learn how to use it in everyday life to connect with their actions, experiences and the people around them. The ACT approach also teaches that it's a normal part of being human to have thoughts and feelings that are unpleasant and the most important thing is to respond effectively when these kinds of experiences arise.

The book is aimed at anyone wanting to enhance their life skills, and character stories are used to demonstrate the spectrum of how they might be employed.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published March 26, 2015

Reviews

[Koa Whittingham · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful self-help book jam-packed with ACT exercises. A must read for all professionals applying ACT and an excellent self-help book for anyone seeking that kind of support. A real strength of this book is the specific examples given - seeing how the strategies apply to specific "real" people. Strongly recommend.

[Ben Sedley · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a clinician, I have found ACTivate your Life to be one of the clearest explanations of ACT and recommend it to lots of clients who are struggling with a range of life difficulties. And some of the exercises in the book helped me clarify my own values and notice thinking traps i sometimes get stuck in too. A great read.