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    Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19: Principles and Techniques for Managing Anxiety During the Coronavirus
    Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19: Principles and Techniques for Managing Anxiety During the Coronavirus
    Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19: Principles and Techniques for Managing Anxiety During the Coronavirus
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    Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19: Principles and Techniques for Managing Anxiety During the Coronavirus

    By Justin Gordon, LMFT

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    Despite the anxiety caused by this coronavirus pandemic there are many effective principles and techniques that can help people feel less anxious and more in control, many of which I will cover in this book. Anxiety management is necessary for your mental well-being, for your physical safety, and perhaps most critically these days, for your immune system. As a licensed marriage and family therapist and Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional, anxiety is what I tend to specialize in and work with the most. What I want to do through this book is give you a good working understanding of anxiety, change the overall relationship that you have with it, and teach you some useful principles and techniques for managing it that have been the most successful with my clients in my private practice.

    This novel coronavirus has come into our lives suddenly and unexpectedly, created a lot of uncertainty, fear, depression, and stress, and left almost no one untouched. For many of us it has disrupted our way of life almost entirely. People have good reason to feel more anxious now than they did a few short weeks ago. But that doesn’t mean that our anxiety has to consume us. In this brief yet informative book I will discuss methods that almost anyone can use to manage and reduce their anxiety and bring back more of a sense of control in their lives.

    One reviewer’s description was “Short. To the point. Definitely information dense in the best way. With a little kick of smart-ass humor in there to keep it light.” Without using too many technical terms or going into unnecessary detail, I try to use language that anyone can understand and give examples to illustrate the points, as we explore methods for helping you manage your anxiety in these difficult times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Gordon, LMFT
    Release dateMar 29, 2020
    ISBN9780463992517
    Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19: Principles and Techniques for Managing Anxiety During the Coronavirus
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    Justin Gordon, LMFT

    I work as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional in a sunny corner of southern Utah, providing individual, marital, and family therapy to a wide range of people. I’ve worked as a therapist in a number of interesting places, including prison, private practice, residential therapy, and wilderness therapy, a chemical dependency clinic.My night job as an amateur writer came from deciding to make what I do as a therapist more accessible to a broader range of people. My goal is to take some of the more effective methods that I use as a therapist, condense them down, put them into layman’s terms, and present them in a way that just about anyone can get into.When I’m not busy working I’m even busier with my family. Me, my wife, and our five kids enjoy being outside, hiking, camping, exploring, or just relaxing and having a good laugh together.

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      Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19 - Justin Gordon, LMFT

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      ANXIETY AND THE CORONAVIRUS

      This novel coronavirus has thrown us all into new, uncharted territory for which we were not prepared. This has brought with it a lot of uncertainty and a loss of control, which naturally causes a lot of fear and anxiety. People are having to isolate themselves from the rest of the world and hope that someone with more knowledge and power than they have can fix it. Many people have been forced out of work. Many are wondering if they will have continued access to vital resources. It’s natural that this is causing a lot of anxiety and panic as people look forward with fear and uncertainty. My guess is that if you’ve bought this book then you have been experiencing this in some form. It might come in the form of a pit in your stomach, a tightness in your chest, a knot in your throat, general unease, or something else similarly unpleasant.

      On the plus side, highly-informative coronavirus memes abound. Apparently if someone toilet papers your house it will actually raise the value of your home. Apparently if you came into 2020 without an anxiety disorder, you will probably not leave 2020 without one. Apparently bringing families together this way is either a mild-to-decent idea or a really, really bad idea. Apparently there’s going to be a baby boom in December, and we will call the babies coronials. Apparently it’s now cheaper to buy disposable underwear than to buy toilet paper.

      The downside is that there was already a lot of scary stuff going on in the world, and on top of that with this novel coronavirus we’ve just moved way out into a lifestyle that’s very unfamiliar. People have good reason to feel a lot more anxious than they did a few short weeks ago. Under the circumstances it might be a little hard to hunker down and focus on a full-length, 400+ page book on anxiety management, and you could probably use some relief sooner than it would take to pour through that, so this won’t be a full-scale book about anxiety management. What I want to do instead is give you a good working understanding of anxiety, change the overall relationship that you have with it, and give you some useful techniques for managing it.

      These days it’s critical that we keep our anxiety at manageable levels for a number of reasons. One increasingly important reason

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