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Managing Anxiety

Stop the spiral. Books on finding stillness and quieting the noise.

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A still life that evokes the Managing Anxiety reading room

Collection index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton

Anxiety at Work

The leader who says ‘I’m struggling too’ doesn’t lose authority. They gain trust. And trust is the only thing that has ever made anxiety smaller.

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Theresa Miller

Anxiety in Relationship

You are not too much. You are not too needy. You are a person whose nervous system learned to be afraid of love — and you are brave enough to unlearn it.

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Jill Weber

Be Calm

You already have everything you need to find calm. It was never something to acquire. It was something to remember.

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Ethan Kross · 2021

Chatter

You do not have to silence the voice in your head. You have to teach it where to stand.

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S. J. Scott, Barrie Davenport

Declutter Your Mind

A clear mind is not an empty mind. It is a mind with space to think.

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David D. Burns

Feeling Great

You are not your thoughts. You are the one who can change them.

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Robert Duff

Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety

Anxiety is not your enemy. It is a misfiring alarm system. Learn to hear it, question it, and move through it.

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Owen O'Kane

How to Be Your Own Therapist

The most important relationship you will ever have is the one with yourself. Learn to be a good therapist to that person.

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Ellen Hendriksen · 2018

How to Be Yourself

Being yourself is not a grand reveal. It is the quiet decision to stop outsourcing your worth to the room.

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Scott Stossel

My Age of Anxiety

To live with anxiety is to live with a future that hasn’t happened yet — but that your body has already decided is dangerous. The trick is not to stop imagining the future. It is to stop believing you already know what it holds.

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Matt Haig

Reasons to Stay Alive

If you are still here — if you are reading this — then you have already survived every single one of your worst days. You are undefeated.

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Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation

We are the first generation of parents raising children who have less independence, more screen time, and worse mental health than we did. That is not progress. That is a choice — and we can make a different one.

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Julie Smith · 2022

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

You do not need to wait until life is unmessy to learn how to care for your mind.

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