Find Your Calm: A Workbook to Manage Anxiety

Wellness Workbooks #1

by Jaime Zuckerman

With wise advice and helpful exercises from psychologist Dr. Jaime Zuckerman, this beautifully designed, interactive workbook will help you find a path toward a calmer, happier daily life.

Stress, worry, and anxiety can make it hard to enjoy your days, and these feelings tend to build up over time. This enjoyable workbook is a colorful, friendly guide that’s written to be straightforward and easily accessible, with the feel of a guided journal rather than a dry clinical tome. Inside, you’ll find a simple toolkit for reducing your anxiety, no matter where it pops up:
Learn to separate yourself from your anxious thoughts 
Break unhelpful thought patterns
Practice how to confront and manage your fears
Find strategies for focusing on the present moment
Practice techniques to keep anxiety at bay for the long haul
Accompanied by engaging, inspirational illustrations, this workbook offers writing prompts, meditations, tracking exercises, and more—giving a gentle, eye-opening introduction to scientifically proven techniques to reduce anxiety in everyday life.

The Wellness Workbooks series from Wellfleet Press offers guidance on a wide range of self-help and mental health topics. Each book presents a thoughtful, evidence-based collection of straightforward exercises in an accessible, enjoyable format that will keep you engaged and inspired. With a distinctive design and full-color illustrations throughout, these workbooks deliver a practical path to personal growth in a beautiful package.

Genres: Self Help

160 pages, Paperback

Published May 10, 2022

Reviews

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Find Your Calm is a beautiful and calming self-help book for managing anxieties. This book is really calm and relaxing to read through and is divided into sections. Each section offers helpful ideas, things to try/practice and information. The aim of the book is to differentiate and separate your anxiety between your thoughts, feelings and you as a person. The book is easy to follow and understand and has some great ideas I've never heard of or thought of before and which I will be giving a try!
I received the netgalley ARC and the only downside to it was it was hard to read as the pages were so small and I had to zoom in and across each page to read them and a handful of pages were upside down. This is the only criticism of this book and I'm sure the finished copy will be so much easier to read in physical copy.

[Reading_ Tamishly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This workbook is everything I needed. For someone who has anxiety and struggles with it every waking moment, this book has some things which prove to be really helpful. Like right now. The exercises provided gave me so much calm and successfully diverted mind towards them. Also, the appearance of the book gave me calming vibes and the contents surprised me more with all the carefully planned illustrations alongside the exercises.

A very much needed book.

Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group- Weltfleet Press, for the advance reading copy.

[Winnie | Her Digital Coffee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Find Your Calm is an interactive self-help workbook that offers tools on how to manage your anxiety. This beautifully designed workbook is in a calming shade of blue, which made me feel at ease upon the first page. Zuckerman offers wonderful advice and techniques that help to differentiate between yourself, your thoughts, and your anxiety.

These workbook prompts are simple, easy to understand, and incredibly effective. I especially love the "Lost Luggage" strategy. It's great having a new perspective to view things, and that one definitely stuck with me. This is a great book to have handy and to work at your own pace. Whether you are dealing with anxiety or you’d like to work on your personal development, I highly recommend this workbook. Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

[thebookishbard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a stunning workbook. The design, colors and layout are so satisfying. Thank you Netgalley and Wellfleet Press for providing me with a digital copy for honest review.

In the past I have used the technique of writing down my worries in order to see them on paper and make sense of how I feel in an intense situation. I do not suffer from chronic anxiety so this is not a review from that point of view. I could not say if this would work for everyone. I have in the past had to deal with situational anxiety, worry, and of course stress. There are interesting techniques provided in this book to help manage anxiety and stress through journaling and exercises.

[Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hesitate to call this "read" because at its core, it's a therapeutic workbook. My first one, actually. I've seen this at my workplace, shelved it too many times to count. But I finally came to the conclusion: I need more than what I was doing to get better in the mind. Now, I will say, there's a strange problem I had when working the end exercises: I began struggling to find anxious thoughts to put down! And for that, five stars. Another benefit is how the workbook explains its concepts in layman's terms without talking down to me. That, and the exercises feel bite sized: you're not asked (till the end at least), to recall traumatic experiences that led to anxiety, but look at what makes you panic on the daily, because for me, I realized I was so distracted by big picture anxiety, I forgot I need to tackle small picture worries first.

This book made me utilize techniques in a way that made sense. I will say, I really tried hard to pace myself (i.e. wanting to do an exercise or two per night), but the pages/techniques learned were like Lays: betcha can't eat just one. Five stars because this opened up a whole new world of reading for me: reading to heal. Also, am I the only one who's sad this is only a four book series? I want this doctor to tackle all facets of anxiety. Also, can we appreciate how every book focuses on a different category of niche (to me) mental health?

[Kelly Green's Book Review · Rating 4 out of 5]

~Visually soothing~
I found this guide to be calming simply looking at the illustrations and design work. It features a very peaceful color palate and soothing ocean-themed images. I enjoy self-help activity books as they can be completed and worked through at your own pace. I would think this would make a great way to get further in depth to explore your own feelings while also seeking professional help. And for those that may have sought professional help in the past, a good way to continue self-exploration. A book that needs to be savored as opposed to rushed through.


Grateful to have received a digital copy of this book from NetGalley & Quarto Publishing Group – Wellfleet Press, Wellfleet Press

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has specific and helpful exercises to work with your anxiety. It has different parts focusing on different areas like being with your body or sitting with the hard things. I have found some of the exercises to be tremendously helpful and others to be not as significant but that's what's so great about the book: you can use the items that are helpful to you and you do not need to read it sequentially for it to be beneficial. If you suffer from bouts of anxiety, I am confident you will find some of these exercises to be beneficial.

with gratitude to edelweiss and Wellfleet Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

[Kimberly Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Find your Calm, a workbook to manage anxiety is both beautiful and useful. This workbook offers self-help strategies to manage anxiety. Techniques are provided to help the reader focus on maladaptive thoughts. The workbook activities are easy to understand and can be very effective. It is a worthwhile investment to work on your anxiety at your own pace. I found the section on unhelpful thought patterns particularly thought provoking. I highly recommend this workbook. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

[Michelle Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

I saw this peaceful cover and thought why not?

This is a beautifully laid out interactive workbook with a lot of prompts, journaling ideas, and I found myself thinking of it during periods of anxiety and found many of the exercises to be helpful.

If workbooks appeal, this is a worthwhile resource for those with anxiety.



eARC kindly provided by Wellfleet Press - Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley. Opinions shared are my own.

[Kate Henderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is absolutely beautiful.
It has a lot of great prompts and journal ideas to help with with focus. I'm not sure if it will help me with my anxiety, as sometimes putting too much focus on it just makes things worse for me.
However, I do think this will be useful and helpful to a lot of people.
It's a great idea, and think lots will benefit from using this.

[ThatBeMeDiana · Rating 4 out of 5]

THIS BOOK IS SO PRETTY OMG It teaches you how to distract yourself from anxiety, how to use your body to calm down physically, and thought processes to combat to overcome worrying. Very beautifully organized and good exercises!

[Evenstar-Johanna ☾ · Rating 2 out of 5]

ARC received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. RTC.

[Joni Owens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely helpful exercises to relax. I have a hard time relaxing (especially before bed) and found a lot of the ideas in this book useful.