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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

Sarah Knight · 2015

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck

Keep what earns a real yes.

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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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Elaine N. Aron · 1996

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Sensitivity is not the problem. Unprotected sensitivity is the problem.

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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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Gary John Bishop · 2016

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

You are not the thought. You are the next thing you do.

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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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Richard Carlson · 1997

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff

A peaceful life is built by refusing to promote every irritation.

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Joseph Nguyen · 2022

Don't Believe Everything You Think

The mind can speak without being appointed judge.

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Faith G. Harper · 2016

Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

A trigger is information, not a verdict on who you are.

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Meg Josephson · 2024

Are You Mad at Me?

Not every silence is a verdict, and not every feeling is evidence.

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Baek Se-hee · 2018

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Sometimes the smallest appetite is still a thread back to life.

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21

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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Matt Haig · 2018

Notes on a Nervous Planet

A nervous planet does not require a nervous inner life as proof that you are paying attention.

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23

Thibaut Meurisse · 2018

Master Your Emotions

You do not master emotions by refusing them. You master the next move after they arrive.

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Judson Brewer · 2021

Unwinding Anxiety

Curiosity gives the anxious mind something better to do than rehearse danger.

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Sarah Knight · 2018

Calm the F*ck Down

Calm is not pretending nothing matters. Calm is spending energy where it can work.

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Daniel G. Amen · 1998

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Treat the brain as something to support, not a verdict to endure.

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Kelsey Darragh · 2020

Don't F*cking Panic: The Shit They Don't Tell You in Therapy About Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, & Depression

The alarm is loud, but it is not the whole truth.

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Sarah Wilson · 2017

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

The beast softens when it is no longer treated as proof of failure.

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