The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress

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This is a great workbook, I read the mindful way about 15 or so years ago and found it very helpful. I’ve had episodes of depression since my teens, and have recently gone through my third severe episode in my life. 15 years ago the original book helped me turn a corner in Recovery. In 2021 an had my worst episode and was down for a good 12 months in recovery - support, therapy, meds and lifestyle changes helped me and of course mindfulness in a big way! I used this book this time round, the structure and activities are just what i needed to keep a regular practice. I am well recovered and life is good again (i now work in mental health!) I practice formal meditation daily and mindfulness daily. I can now see how i ended up in a huge depression again, and this is key - you make changes and drop unhealthy habits for healthy ones to keep well, you don

If you have suffered long-term emotional difficulties, you'll have already discovered that worrying or suppressing doesn't really help. Stage 3: We try to get rid of the unhappiness in ways that actually keep it going and just make things worse. Focus with kindness and compassion on the feelings that may be giving birth to the thoughts, asking yourself, "What feelings are here now?" How am I experiencing these feelings in the body? The authors are leading experts in developing the scientific theories and experiential skills of how mindfulness can help to disrupt the ruminative cycle that perpetuates depression….This book is written and arranged in such a way that the layman with no prior knowledge of cognitive theory of depression can easily understand why and how MBCT can be of benefit to them….This workbook is highly recommended to anyone who is interested in MBCT for self-improvement or self-help in coping with depression, as well as to mental health professionals who want to learn mindfulness skills for personal enhancement or for teaching their own patients. I have now incorporated this workbook as a companion resource into my own practice of cognitive-behavioral therapy. My daily practice of mindfulness skills has also strengthened my personal ability to develop moment-to-moment case conceptualizations for my patient's problems during each therapeutic encounter” These kinds of questions have no clear answer. Nonetheless, we feel compelled to keep chewing away at them—a process that psychologists call rumination.We dredge up memories of failures and difficulties from the past to try to understand how we get things wrong. But focusing on our weaknesses and deficiencies in this way only drags us down further.

If these feelings escalate, they may become severe enough to be called clinical depression. But the sort of unhappiness we are speaking of here touches all of us from time to time. Do you want to explore and learn how to implement mindfulness into your daily life? Moreover, do you happen to suffer from recurring depression, anxiety or low mood states? Would you like to learn to cope most skillfully with life's stress, turmoils and situations? Would you like to alter in a positive and more compassionate way your relationship to yourself, your experience and people around?Fantastic....[It] functions as a trusted friend, counselor, and guide."--from the Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD The good news is that, with the right understanding and skills, we can break out of these mood–thought vicious cycles. Paul Gilbert, PhD, Centre for Compassion Research and Training, University of Derby, United Kingdom