Tried too hard.

The narrator/Author of the book tries too hard to add slang into the book to connect with the younger generation and even at times it is very cringy but the book as a whole is very well written and also very interesting and good. It added insight into my PTSD as well as got some tips on what makes it tick. That being said it is not an end-all book that will fix you but to help with your treatment it is pretty great.

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Great tips

I found this extremely helpful in managing anxiety.
She offered some very helpful tips .
Highly recommend

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Quick and interesting, but

the swearing isn’t always necessary. It’s short enough that I’d recommend people give it a try.

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Good Advise

I love how she is not talking down to you and really wants to help..

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Great Strategies

This book was great to find new strategies, however, it would be better as a physical read rather than an audio read.

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Really good worth the listen

Amazing I love how it makes sense the way she talks about stuff I actually get it. Thanks this helps

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weirdly calming

I've listened to this book a few times (actually while have a panic attack) and it helped me a lot. It brought me back to reality and reminded me that I'm not alone. I recommend.

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Good food for thoughts.

A lot of the information in this book is common knowledge or easily findable online, it is true, but isn't most information nowadays? This book does a very good job of making a connection between what is happening in the body to concrete strategies and things to actually get better.
I won't say it changed everything for me, but the act of reading this book was one of the good step I took in my recovery. I didn't feel talked down to, in fact I liked the way it had of bastardizing the more scientific passages. Some may find it cringe, but I think the tone is clearly set in the title, you can either roll with it or not.

This book was very much written by an academic perspective and it it very honest about it. There is a lot of information about medication and hard to access services, which some people may find helpful but are not realistic for most.
For the narrator, I liked her peppy voice but I don't understand a lot of the decisions that were made for the audiobook. There were exercises and I don't feel like they did a good job to make them accessible for audiobook listeners. And why read through the "breathing exercise" part instead of actually doing it? This book makes you sit though "Breath in for x seconds, hold of x seconds, exhale for x seconds" without actually pausing for it, for what feels like ages. Either do it so we can follow or skip though it. Definitely f*cked with my anxiety, but it's only one time at the end.

Reading this book was still a good decision for me. I recommend!

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Great tips to cope with anxiety

Really took some great tools for my tool box. Meditation breathing “ thinking” point also the not making you your thought but by calling it out as a thought and not who you are. Also naming the anxiety to help with owning it and again not making you the anxiety it’s not who you are…
Thank you.

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Inauthentic

Lacks substance and language is dumbed down and annoying. More for the lay person who has the illusion of discovering new truths.

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