Book Review: Managing Worry and Anxiety

Title: Managing Worry and Anxiety

Author: Jean Holthaus

Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company

Publication Date: January 21, 2020

Managing Worry and Anxiety: Practical Tools to Help You Deal with Life's Challenges is a helpful and encouraging book written by Jean Holthaus. As the title indicates, this practical book is focused on managing worry and anxiety while incorporating spiritual and psychological aspects in dealing with life's challenges.

This interesting book provides ways to effectively manage worry and anxiety by incorporating three essential skills, such as living in the moment, suspending judgment, and believe in yourself as competent and equipped by God. The author shares how to experience peace in a world filled of worry and anxiety.

It's divided into eleven chapters, which are titled as Worry or Anxiety?, What Causes Anxiety?, Biology Affects Anxiety, How We Think and What We Think Affect Anxiety, Social Environments Affect Anxiety, Our View of God Affects Anxiety, Strategies for Dealing with Worry and Anxiety, Living in the Present Moment, Letting Go of Judgment, Competent for Life?, and Going from Here. Also, there are additional sections titled as Appendix: Feeling Words, Notes, and Bibliography.

According to the pages 13-14, the author shared, "My goal in writing this book is to help you, the reader, understand what anxiety is, what causes anxiety, and what resources you can call upon to help manage anxiety.... Anxiety exhibits itself in multiple ways, there are many factors that contribute to its presence, and it has no known 'cure." However, there are resources and skills that can be utilized to effectively manage anxiety so it does not interfere with your ability to live a fulfilling and productive life." 

Managing Worry and Anxiety is a helpful and practical resource that's geared toward various ages, from young adults to older generations.

Note: I received this book from Revell Reads, which is a program designed for bloggers to write book reviews in exchange for books, yet the opinions expressed in this review are my own.