From the founder of Center for Anxiety and Harvard associate professor David H. Rosmarin, PhD, a practical guide to transforming your anxiety from a burden to a benefit.Those of us who suffer from anxiety either exhaust ourselves trying to cure it or resign ourselves to a lifetime of fear and worry. What if, instead of fighting our anxiety, we could turn it into a strength?Through nine easy-to-follow strategies, Dr. David H. Rosmarin demonstrates how to har...

Life isn’t a fairytale – or chick lit.It’s 2005 and Katy Sinclaire is two years out of college. She still lives with her old university roommate and still works at the same bookstore that she’s been with since she was a teenager. She spends her days avoiding customers, making fun of the books in the store, and counting the minutes until she can clock out. It is an increasingly unsatisfying life, but it’s also a life that she does not question. That is, until a chain of events force...

Spirituality and religion are powerful forces in many people's lives, yet they are usually relegated to the periphery of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) research and practice. This highly practical, nonsectarian book describes how to identify and work with psychologically relevant facets of spirituality in the context of evidence-based treatment. David H. Rosmarin draws on cutting-edge theory and research to provide clear guidelines for conceptualizing positive and negative aspects of s...

James Riccio eagerly prepared the elements for the ritual. Sitting on his knees, he looked over the triangle he'd scratched into the living room's hardwood floor with a red-flecked Jasper stone. Satisfied, he set the stone aside and reached for the small nylon-handled cloth bag on the coffee table. Salt, a silver coin, vervain root, and a scrap of parchment paper with the number three inscribed went into the bag, which he then hung around his neck.He picked up a white candle and sc...

This book introduces an approach to mental health that dates back 3,000 years to an ancient body of Jewish spiritual wisdom. Known as the Connections Paradigm, the millennia-old method has been empirically shown to alleviate symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. After being passed down from generation to generation and tested in clinical settings with private clients, it is presented to a broad audience for the first time.The idea behind the paradigm is that at any given mome...

Dr. Rosmarin's popularly written yet authoritative volume forthrightly analyzes the basic differences between Judaism and Christianity. She maintains that there is an inherent conflict between the basic views of these mother/daughter religions, a conflict that cannot be resolved but that must be understood. Among the subjects addressed are miracles, sin and atonement, faith versus law, Free Will versus Original Sin, asceticism, and the place of Jesus in Jewish thinking.

Fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Wild will love this heartwarming memoir in which the main character is her own hero.Abby knew her pattern all too well: get her heart broken, swear off dating, find a man “worth” breaking that vow for . . . Rinse. Repeat. However, after leaving a particularly traumatic relationship, Abby realized that something had to change if she wanted to kick the pattern. One night while purchasing a solo concert ticket, an epiphany...

Abby knew her pattern all too well: get her heart broken, swear off dating, find a man "worth" breaking that vow for . . . Rinse. Repeat. However, after leaving a particularly traumatic relationship, Abby realized that something had to change if she wanted to kick the pattern. One night while purchasing a solo concert ticket, an epiphany was born: she needed a year in which she was her own dating interest. One full year to give herself the care and consideration that she once gave to roman...

From the founder of Center for Anxiety and Harvard associate professor David H. Rosmarin, PhD, a practical guide to transforming your anxiety from a burden to a benefit.Those of us who suffer from anxiety either exhaust ourselves trying to cure it or resign ourselves to a lifetime of fear and worry. What if, instead of fighting our anxiety, we could turn it into a strength?Through nine easy-to-follow strategies, Dr. David H. Rosmarin demonstrates how to har...

Michael Jennings is an unpleasant, middle-aged, divorced man with few friends and fewer redeeming qualities. Prior to his divorce, she siphoned off marital assets and kept them well-hidden, leaving himself financially comfortable. He is a person who tends to always see himself as a victim and readily blames everyone else for his personal problems.Until that fateful evening when he confronts a near-death experience.Now Michael is looking for a place to hide. Someone or somet...

"Michael, over here."Across the street, between two empty storefronts, a claustrophobic alley was draped in gloomy, purple shadows. A shaded figure darker than night awaited him at the alley's narrow entrance."I see you, bastard," Michael cursed as he stepped into the street. Headlights immediately blinded him, and he stood frozen like a frightened deer as death approached on speeding wheels...Michael Jennings is a man on an unhappy journey. He believes the horrifyi...

How would you like to own an ancient grimoire of magic where blank pages appear amid the others and an invisible hand writes out a spell suitable to your darkest desire?Along with the ritual words, you would also be given a list of ingredients needed and how you can protect yourself if you make a mistake--although making mistakes during the ritual is something you should try to avoidDo you know someone who really deserves trouble? An employer, a landlord, a bully or ex-boyf...