People with anxiety suffer every day by avoiding the things they fear and as a result, their world becomes smaller and smaller, severely limiting what they do and who they see. Are you struggling with anxiety every day in your personal and professional life? Many people suffer from and are sabotaged by anxiety. They can gain control of that crippling anxiety by using a new tested method called Gain Control, created by an experienced psychotherapist who has not only helped many through this method but used it to master her own anxiety. You will learn: Anxiety is strengthened by the only way you know how to react to it, which is avoiding it at all costs. By reading this book, you'll learn new ways to react to anxiety, giving you a new perspective to face anxiety head-on to take control of your life. The Gain Control program is a system developed for a woman's "personal dashboard" where she can pick what she needs to do when she needs to do it, based on time constraints and all the other responsibilities that professional women have on any given day. Here's how you will gain mastery and control over your anxiety: G: Game on! Anxiety is a challenging opponent, but you'll learn how to play to win. A: Accept that you can do this, that new learning is challenging but doable.

I: Increase your willingness to do hard things. You already are! N: Notice what you're avoiding and use these things to take small steps in reducing your anxiety. C: Create space and time for yourself to do the steps to decrease anxiety. O: Observe-you're going to learn how to observe anxiety rather than be a victim of it. N: No writing, no memorization-just "doing" is what works. T: Tolerate being uncomfortable for a short time to move through anxiety to feel better. R: Remember, this will take some time to change your brain and change how you respond. O: Over, and over, and over.

You will do some things over and over again to gain mastery and control over anxiety. L: Learn all you can so you have more than your imagination to rely upon to process information. Just the facts ma'am! Book jacket.