Anxious Little Monsters: A Gentle Mental Health Companion for Anxiety and Stress

by Verity Crosswell

Book on Anxiety with Encouraging Little Monsters
Anxious Little Monsters is a friendly little book on anxiety containing cute monster illustrations, affirmations, and encouragement for those facing mental health challenges.

An antidote for a society riddled with loneliness. Even though advancing technology has allowed people to connect in ways once unimaginable, we are lonelier than ever. It can be difficult to find a place in our fast-paced world, and it’s easy to think that we’re the only ones going through a hard time. As a result, anxiety is on the rise. Enter: Anxious Little Monsters. The positive affirmations in this book on anxiety, in the form of hand-drawn, adorable anxious monsters, meet your anxiety where it’s at and offer a helping hand for getting through it and attaining mental wellness and peace of mind.

The gentle reminders you need and deserve. Overcoming anxiety may seem daunting, but these monsters are here to teach you to change your perspective and take things easy. They offer positive affirmation words to remind you you’re not alone―they’re struggling with the same things you are. Author and professional illustrator Verity Crosswell crafts each cute little monster to be a soothing reassurance that helps you feel cared for and understood. When it comes to mental health resources and the best books for anxiety, this book is one that you can turn to again and again.

Open up Anxious Little Monsters and learn about:

Listening to your natural mental and emotional cycles
Actionable steps you can take to get through the low points and mood disorders, and ultimately set you on the path to dealing with and overcoming anxiety
Ways to share what you’re feeling with loved ones so they can understand and support you
If you enjoyed books that help with anxiety like You Can Do All Things, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People, How to Be Happy (Or at Least Less Sad), or G’morning, G’night, then you’ll love Verity Crosswell’s Anxious Little Monsters.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Adult, Mental Health

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 23, 2021

Reviews

[Scottsdale Public Library]

The pages of this little book each have a mental health affirmation paired with a cute monster illustration. The pages are grouped together by theme, and whenever I felt anxious, I found myself flipping a corresponding section and reading a couple of pages to steady my mood. This is a very gentle book that is lovely to have on hand if you are going through a stressful time. - Dominique A.

[Anastasiia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ця невелика книга була написана для самодопомоги під час стресу, тривог та депресій. Поділена на 8 розділів, в кожному з яких милі намальовані монстри дають пораду. Книгу можна було би назвати збіркою афірмацій, але насправді це щось краще та глибше. Після пролистування декілька сторінок ввечері відчуваєш спокій та розраду! Особливо цінним виявився розділ "Іноді життя - просто відстій". Актуально, правда?)
Я цю книгу дочитала вже до кінця, але залишу її поряд, щоб ще не раз пролистнути та відчути гарні емоції, яких зараз дуже не вистачає!

[Милица Стефановић · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so simple yet so effective and helpful. You can read it as many times as you need. It is especially great that it doesn't require a lot of time which is important these days when we all are in a rush and don't have so much free time. I got it as a birthday gift and it is really helping me with my condition, and I will recommend it to everyone, whether they have mental health problems or not.

[Călina Miron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Right. Little backstory on how I ended up discovering this book: in recent years I've struggled a lot with reading for pleasure and just sitting down with a book and my own thoughts. In consequence, I haven't completed a book challenge since 2017 and this year, too, I ran behind and I'm only halfway through my set reading challenge. So I set out to find really short books that I could read one/day so I can complete my reading challenge this year :)

This being said, I am very glad I stumbled upon this one on Scribd. It was a gentle reminder that sometimes our best is just doing a little thing in a day, as I am doing with the 'reading marathon' lol. I will surely keep it handy for when things get overwhelming and I do encourage you to give it a try.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I randomly came across this book. I didn’t know what to expect other than it was about anxiety, but it ended up being very helpful as I work on my own mental health journey. I can have pretty severe anxiety and panic, and some of the affirmations are perfect for my husband to use when helping me when I have a panic attack, so thank you! The monster illustrations were so cute, too!

[Henzi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I randomly accessed this book yesterday because it happened to be on Kindle Book Deals. I read it today, in the middle of the work, because I am indeed in a phase of anxiety. It's a light read that I can skim thru since the text is not full on a page, and the major contents are a bunch of reminders along with cute monster illustrations. Some of them are helpful, but almost all of them are just quotes that I have read on the Internet.

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful little book. Cute illustrated affirmations to comfort you, maybe to meditate on, as needed. Created a Goodreads entry just to be able to give it the full five stars and recommend it.

[Katarina · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Samo da te podsetim: dati sve od sebe ne znači dovesti sebe do ivice nervnog sloma." ❤️

[John Doe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nene zaboravi disati
- sve ce biti u redu
- nije kraj svojeta ako nešto pustis

[Dorothy Claussen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing too surprising. A lot of information overlap between this one and The Coddling of the American Mind. Thankful phones came along after our kids matured.