The Health Anxiety Workbook: Practical Exercises to Overcome Your Health Worries

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Taylor Ham provides the perfect prescription for understanding, coping with, and overcoming one's health anxiety. She presents a step by step guide, complete with exercises that will lead to the self-knowledge required to deal effectively with health anxiety concerns. Whether you are a mental health professional or an individual looking for answers, this book will be a most valuable resource.

The Health Anxiety Workbook is absolutely a must-have for anyone experiencing health-related anxiety. I'm a licensed therapist with a doctorate in mental health. Rarely do you find a workbook that is the trifecta of beautiful, easy to understand, and most of all - HELPFUL. This workbook provides a perfect balance of useful information (in small easy-to-digest chunks) and practical application. The information provided is wonderful and I appreciate the exercises, which are highly effective. A few friends also spent time with the workbook and found that it significantly helped their health-related anxiety. This workbook is now my go-to resource for anyone with health anxiety. I'm so glad I have this on my bookshelf - for myself, my clients, my students, and my supervisees.

This is an extremely helpful and thoughtfully laid out workbook. The chapters contain concise and easily digestible practical information about health anxiety and the ways it manifests itself, followed by excercises that can be put into practice right away. At the end of each chapter there's a Key Takeaway section and a space to write out reflections before moving on to the next chapter. The real life anecdotes shed light on the many ways health anxiety can affect someone's life and I found them to be both relatable and eye opening. I can easily see how the coping skills provided like grounding exercises and mindful breathing could be beneficial in almost any stressful or anxiety provoking situation and I look forward to using them in our family.*I was provided an advanced copy by the publisher.

As a mental health clinician, I often struggle to find concrete, simple resources to recommend for clients to work through difficulties on their own time. I am so glad this workbook exists! The Health Anxiety Workbook is a fantastic resource for anyone to increase understanding of anxious symptoms and provides effective strategies to cope when anxiety arises. Not only will this book help with managing anxiety, but it will help anyone to better understand themselves. I highly recommend this book to folks who need help with managing Health-Specific anxiety or anxiety about any topic.

I was provided with an advance copy by the publisher.As someone who has experienced intense health anxiety for years, I can confidently say that this is a wonderful resource. This workbook takes you step-by-step through the basics of what health anxiety is and how to know whether you may be experiencing it. Then, it continues by providing you with information, exercises, and various tools for dealing with it. I really liked that this workbook is easy to understand, includes visuals to illustrate concepts, and exercises with clear instructions.This is not a book of fluff, it teaches sound proven strategies, keeps it real, and lets you know that your anxiety will not be conquered overnight, but it is possible to learn to manage it to the point where it no longer overwhelms various aspects of your life. The author provides ongoing encouragement, sets realistic expectations, and provides quality resources.If you are dealing with health anxiety, I highly recommend purchasing this workbook. It’s a complete resource that you can use individually or in combination with therapy. I suggest working through no more than one chapter per week. And, a bonus about this book is that the approach and skills that you gain from it can also be used to address other types of anxiety.

Ms. Ham has produced a very readable and imminently useful workbook that is sure to bring relief to anxiety sufferers. She applies a thoroughly-researched treatment method, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, in understandable ways that will be easily applied by those dealing with health anxiety. The exercises can be put to use immediately, guiding the reader through the entire treatment process. I also liked the way the author gives special attention to self-care and follow-up as a way to encourage readers to continue their improvement into the future. For the many people who suffer from health anxiety, this workbook will give them very useful tools to feel better.

As a marriage and family therapist, I believe health anxiety is much more prevalent than we know, given the wealth of internet content that can stoke fears. Taylor does a real service here by explaining in a non-shaming way the anxiety that plagues so many, followed by exercises to help change negative thought patterns that fuel worry.The beauty of this book is that these exercises apply to general anxiety as well. Her clear, accessible writing style makes this a great self-help book. But it is also useful for clinicians seeking to help clients supplement their therapeutic work with CBT strategies they can use at home when any anxiety strikes.Faye Fiore, LMFTI was provided an advance copy by the publisher.