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Healing Emotional Pain Workbook

Process-Based CBT Tools for Moving Beyond Sadness, Fear, Worry, and Shame to Discover Peace and Resilience
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Healing Emotional Pain Workbook offers powerful and customisable tools based on process-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help you overcome emotional pain and live a values-driven life. This step-by-step guide helps you understand and manage overwhelming emotions such as anger, anxiety, sadness, shame, and self-blame. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, the workbook enables you to identify the root causes of your pain—whether avoidance, internalisation, or rumination—and develop a personalised plan to heal and thrive.

Learn to stop avoiding life, replace self-blame with self-compassion, make decisions aligned with your values, break free from negative thinking patterns, and increase psychological flexibility for improved well-being.
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This workbook is ideal for readers seeking practical mental health tools to manage and heal from intense emotions, especially those interested in cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. Suitable for individuals feeling stuck in emotional pain who want tailored, research-based methods to improve their psychological well-being.

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Powerful and customisable tools grounded in process-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help you heal emotional pain and live a vital, values-based life

Do you struggle with overwhelming emotions, such as anger, anxiety, sadness, shame, or self-blame? Emotions—even intensely distressing ones—are a natural part of life. But if your emotions are so intense that they're hurting your relationships or getting in the way of your happiness, it's time for a change.

Written by a team of mental health experts, Healing Emotional Pain Workbook is a step-by-step guide to understanding your emotions and enhancing your overall well-being. Rather than a one-size-fits-all treatment, this workbook takes a tailored approach to help you treat the root cause of your emotional pain—whether it's avoidance, internalisation, or rumination. As a result, you'll create a personalised plan to help you overcome intense emotions and live the life you want.

With this workbook, you'll learn to:

  • Stop avoiding and start showing up to your life
  • Replace self-blame with self-compassion
  • Make decisions based on your values, not your emotions
  • Break free from repetitive negative thinking
  • Increase psychological flexibility
  • Accept your thoughts and emotions—rather than trying to outrun them!

When our emotions spiral out of control, they can result in chronic mental suffering. This workbook can help you change the way you react to emotions, before they negatively impact your life.

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Experts praise the workbook for its integrative, evidence-based approach. Paul Aurand, MHt, calls it a "highly effective, integrative approach to self-healing" with practical and revealing assessments. Kate Gustin, PhD, recommends it for cultivating wellness and agency by freeing individuals from maladaptive beliefs and negative thought patterns. The exercises provide mindful, accessible strategies for emotional transformation and empowerment.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781648480218

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 202.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 495g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Matthew McKay (Author)
Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has authored and coauthored numerous books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Self-Esteem, Thoughts and Feelings, When Anger Hurts, and ACT on Life Not on Anger. He has also penned two novels, Us and The Wawona Hotel. McKay received his PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and specializes in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression. He lives and works in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Patrick Fanning (Author)
Patrick Fanning is a professional writer in the mental health field. He has authored and coauthored eighteen self-help books, including Self-Esteem, Thoughts and Feelings, Couple Skills, and Mind and Emotions.

Patricia E. Zurita Ona (Author)
Patricia E. Zurita Ona, PsyD, is the director of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center and adjunct faculty at The Wright Institute. Her clinical work started first as school psychologist and then as a clinical psychologist. She has significant experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with mood, anxiety, and eating disorders, and body image concerns; particular areas of expertise are obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Zurita Ona also provides specialized services for individuals struggling with emotional dysregulation problems (borderline personality disorder), with or without self-harm and suicidal behaviors. She is coauthor of Mind and Emotions, a universal protocol for emotional disorders that has received a "Self-Help Seal of Merit" from the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapists (ABCT).

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