Find Your Calm A Workbook to Manage Anxiety

Find a path toward a calmer, happier daily life with this soothingly designed workbook—featuring advice and exercises from psychologist Dr. Jaime Zuckerman.

Stress, worry, and anxiety can make it hard to enjoy your days, and these feelings tend to build up over time. This interactive guide is straightforward and accessible, with the friendly feel of a guided journal rather than a dry clinical tome. Find Your Calm gives you a simple toolkit for reducing your anxiety, no matter where it pops up. 

As you make your way through the pages, you will:

• Learn to separate yourself from your anxious thoughts 
• Break unhelpful thought patterns
• Practice how to confront and manage your fears
• Find strategies for focusing on the present moment
• Practice techniques to keep anxiety at bay for the long haul

Accompanied by engaging, inspirational illustrations, this workbook offers writing prompts, meditations, tracking exercises, and more—giving you a gentle, eye-opening introduction to scientifically proven techniques to reduce anxiety in everyday life.

The Wellness Workbooks series from Wellfleet Press offers guidance on a wide range of self-help and mental health topics. Each book presents a thoughtful, evidence-based collection of straightforward exercises in an accessible, enjoyable format that will keep you engaged and inspired. With a distinctive design and full-color illustrations throughout, these workbooks deliver a practical path to personal growth in a beautiful package.

Dr. Jaime Zuckerman is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice based outside Philadelphia, working with adults dealing with mood disorders, anxiety, and adjustment to medical illness. Dr. Z also specializes in relationship difficulties with a focus on helping those involved with narcissistic partners. Dr. Z is a frequent contributor to several media outlets, including Vogue, Elle Magazine, Shape, Women’s Health, The Washington Post, The Harvard Business Review, CBS3 Philly, PHL17, and FOX29 News. She is active on Instagram as @dr.z_psychologist. Her books include Find Your Calm, on managing anxiety, and Find Good Habits, on developing positive behavior patterns.

CONTENTS
Introduction
YOU ARE NOT
YOUR ANXIOUS
THOUGHTS 
Worry Art 
Word Reframing 
Sticky Note Project 
Watch and Worry 
Lost Luggage 
Designing Defusion 
Just Passing Through 
The Purple Flower 
Your Own Worst Enemy 
Down the Rabbit Hole 
It’s Worry Time! 
Pizza Party 
BEING WITH
YOUR BODY 
Balloon Breathing 
5-4-3-2-1 
Shoulders and Ears
Should Not Be Neighbors 
Surprise! 
Become a Grounding Guru 
Grounded in the Ground 
These Are a Few
of My Favorite Things 
Scan the System 
Muscle (Re)Group 
Time Task Tricks 
YOU ’ V E
GOTTA FEEL IT
TO HEAL IT 
The Egg 
The Pool 
Smile for the Camera 
You Do You 
Sink or Swim 
The Strategy of Struggling 
Busy Bees 
To Do or Not to Do 
Liar, Liar, Mind on Fire 
Fraudulent Feelings 
Opposites Do Not Attract 
An Apple a Day Keeps Your
Stress Right in Front of You 
Places, People, and Patterns 
Anticipation Station 
Slow and Steady
Wins the Race 
It’s Time to Make Time 
Easy Does It 
How To Be Do Less Anxious 
Conclusion 
Resources & References 
About the Book 
Acknowledgments 
About the Author