About the book: 2018 / Worry is your brain thinking ahead to anticipate possible threats. Anxiety is your body's reaction in anticipation of these future threats. In moderate doses, both are even beneficial. But what if you worry too much, shielding yourself from reality with your own fearful thoughts? Anxiety is dangerous because it takes over a person’s thoughts, feelings and actions. Thoughts prevent you from seeing the world around you as it is. Feelings have an impact on the body, which leads to various diseases in the long run. Actions - if they do come to them, because anxiety often simply paralyzes a person - are taken within the framework of a picture of the world already distorted by thoughts and feelings. Therefore, they are often ineffective. Holly Hazlett-Stevens offers not just individual exercises, but strategies for changing your thoughts, feelings and behavior, which will help you face problems head-on, rather than freeze like a deer in headlights on a country road.