Things You Think About When You Bite Your Nails

A funny and wise guide and workbook for conquering fears, from the existential to the everyday, and defeating the monster those fears can become—anxiety.

Things You Think About When You Bite Your Nails is a book about fear. It explores how fear works, how it takes hold of us, and how it follows us from childhood (the monsters under the bed) to adulthood (careers, relationships, accidentally sending that risky text to the wrong person—all the things that make us want to bite our nails). However, this is also a book about that monster our fear can morph into when it grows too powerful, a phenomenon we are all too familiar with and that more and more of us are struggling against—anxiety.

Author and illustrator Amalia Andrade shares her own battle with anxiety, and not only did she make it out the other side, she learned that sometimes it's the very thing that almost sinks you that can save you. Through the lessons, exercises, and often hilarious personal stories Amalia shares in these pages, together you will learn how to make those feelings your friends and turn your fears into superpowers.

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