I have not been posting on this blog recently due to work
commitments, and I hope to do more in the future. I do want to let you know
about a new book by Michael Tompkins that I think is very helpful for people
struggling with shyness. He describes very carefully the costs of avoidance,
and focuses on the rewards available when you accept and tolerate anxiety. He
shows you how to take manageable steps every day to increase your contact with
other people and do what you really want to do. It is really worth the read and
I think can make a difference. Here is the review that I posted on Amazon.com.
Dr. Michael Tompkins has written an incredibly helpful and
accessible book for those who struggle with anxiety. One of the outstanding
features of Anxiety and Avoidance, A Universal Treatment, is his step by step
approach to reducing debilitating avoidance and unhelpful interfering anxious
behavior, while accepting and mindfully tolerating anxious thoughts, physical
sensations, feelings and emotions, and increasing adaptive approach behavior. He
also describes the heartbreaking consequences to work, social and family life
that occur when anxiety is left untreated. Dr. Tompkins’ goal is that readers
become experts on their own anxiety responses. The book fulfills its promise
and is the most sensible, thorough and engaging self help book in this area I
have seen.
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