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  • ACT Becomes Simple: An Easy Way to Stop Hating Yourself and Start Living Happier Using the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Written by: Shawn Arris
  • Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson
  • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Written by: Shawn Arris
Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson
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Publisher's Summary

Are you looking for a different perspective on your problems and your life?

Do you want to reclaim your life and start living?

Then keep reading because you are about to discover a better way to think about your life!

Highly recommended by many ACT experts, this audiobook is filled with unique tools you won't find anywhere else.

Make real, impactful changes with this truly helpful and easy-to-understand book. Discover how you can accept yourself and bring positive change to your life with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). 

Inside, you will learn:

  • ACT - experience-based psychotherapy
  • The goal of acceptance and commitment therapy
  • Practicing ACT interventions
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Panic attacks and anxiety disorder
  • Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Key concepts of ACT therapy
  • Fusion/defusion
  • Avoidance/acceptance
  • Lost values/connection        
  • Attachment to self/observing self
  • Uncertain values/clear values
  • And much more

Six basic principles form the foundation of acceptance and commitment therapy. They work in conjunction with one another toward the main goals of effectively handling painful thoughts and experiences and creating a rich, vital life. 

This includes:

  • Cognitive defusion
  • Expansion and acceptance
  • Contact and connection with the present moment
  • The observing self
  • Values clarification
  • Committed action 

Combining the foundational knowledge of ACT with effective guidance, strategies, and techniques, you can begin to use ACT immediately.

Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, this book offers powerful tools you can use to jump-start changes in your life. This is more than a self-help book for a specific complaints. It is a revolutionary approach to living a richer and more rewarding life.

Whether you’re looking for ways to improve your relationships, your work, or health, with this book, you’ll find the tools and insights that can help you do it. It’s time to get unstuck and start thriving!

©2020 Shawn Arris (P)2021 Shawn Arris

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Great intro to ACT

I found this book informative and inspiring. At times it seemed there were some words lost in translation but I was usually able to understand the overall meaning anyway.

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