Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Descripción editorial
A practicing psychologist—one of the top popularizers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)—offers a fresh, welcome approach for treating mental health issues that speaks to our times, blending mindfulness and spirituality with CBT to effectively overcome negative thinking, achieve deep healing, and truly attain lasting peace.
Mental health professionals have many science-based techniques for alleviating symptoms like anxiety and depression. However, these reductive approaches often don’t deliver the lasting peace we long for. Practicing psychologist and one of the top popularizers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dr. Seth Gillihan believes we need to do more than relieve our symptoms to become healthy and whole. To achieve long-lasting health and well-being, we must embrace the spiritual in our healing.
Gillihan’s mindful cognitive behavioral therapy method blends insights from CBT, mindfulness, Stoicism, and Christian mysticism into the therapeutic process. He reveals how we can use this method in our daily lives to master negative thoughts and choose the right actions to become fully present and at peace.
This extraordinary guide teaches us how to retrain our minds to banish the stubborn lies we tell ourselves and adapt new healthful and spiritual practices that can help us focus on the deep truths of our existence—that we are perfect in our imperfections, and most important, that we are beings deserving of love.
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Mindfulness practice and traditional psychotherapy meet in this enlightening guide by psychologist Gillihan (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple). "More than finding a cure for suffering, our deepest longing is for peace," Gillihan contends, and to that end he draws on personal anecdotes and patient stories to provide advice on alleviating mental illness and achieving wellbeing. To cope with everyday frustrations, he recommends changing one's perspective, recounting how he was frustrated by his newborn's sleeplessness until he realized the real problem was his "insistence that the situation should be different from what it was." He adds that practicing "mindful awareness" is key to changing one's perspective because it teaches one to be simply "aware" of one's circumstances rather than to judge them. A core component of cognitive behavioral therapy, Gillihan posits, is letting go of false beliefs about oneself, which he illustrates with the story of his client who realized his belief that he was pathetic was baseless after Gillihan pressed him for evidence to support his negative self-perception. Additionally, the author urges readers to embrace mindfulness by expressing gratitude and reducing distractions while interacting with others. The author excels at making psychological insights digestible for lay readers, and his tone recalls that of a wise teacher. This will be a balm for the weary.
