The Confidence Gap
From Fear to Freedom
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
A hands-on self-help guide to gaining long-lasting confidence and overcoming fear using mindfulness-based therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
Bestselling author Russ Harris explains how many of us are playing the 'confidence game' using the wrong rules, and guides you hrough clear, simple exercises designed to help you manage difficult emotions such as anxiety, and to build genuine confidence.
The Confidence Gap is instructive, reassuring and gentle in tone, and provides proven ways to build your self-esteem and take you from fear to freedom.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harris, an Australia-based physician, therapist, and lecturer on stress management, reiterates and expands on concepts from his earlier book, The Happiness Trap. Here he focuses on the techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a cognitive-behavioral treatment created by Steve Hayes in the 1980s. Harris applies it to helping readers learn to play the "confidence game." People in the confidence gap may desire a romantic relationship or want to find a better job, but when fear surfaces, they don't take action. Offering a solution to insecurities, shyness, and low self-confidence, Harris blends personal anecdotes, insights, and exercises to show readers how to get more out of life by overcoming their self-defeating patterns. For instance, he says, first, one must act with confidence; the feeling of confidence will follow. After showing readers how to "tame" their fear," Harris reviews strategies that lead to psychological flexibility and concludes with bringing the new skills together for ongoing success and peak performance. Newcomers to behavioral cognitive therapy and ACT may well find Harris's intriguing ideas of value.
