​Do you struggle with anxiety, stress or feeling confident? Then, this book is for you! Packed with creative exercises, fun illustrations, neuroscience facts, and helpful worksheets, The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021) by Risa Williams provides practical strategies and techniques for mastering everyday stressful situations with ease.

“Can coping with anxiety really be fun? With this anxiety toolkit, it certainly is! Tools such as Task-Extractors, Brain Bouncing, and Shrink-Rays make scientifically grounded strategies easily digestible, creative, and even entertaining.
Risa Williams has transformed an overwhelming chore of tackling anxiety into succinct, light-hearted, actionable strategies that are useful at any age.” - Erica Curtis, author of "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art"  ​

​​“Risa Williams is the ultimate battery recharger. In The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit she provides a step-by-step roadmap to transmute anxiety into accomplishment and fear into action.
​Loaded with neuroscience nuggets, these exercises and chapters provide practical advice for increasing confidence and writing yourself a new narrative.” - Mike Sonksen, Professor and Author of "Letters to My City"
“Williams helps us find the fun in combating our daily anxieties. It’s a brilliant approach. Her tools spark our creativity and help us realize that small shifts in our thinking can lower our stress levels. This is the sort of self-help book that makes you feel like you can truly change your life and smile while doing it.”  – Ezra Werb, Educational Therapist and Author of “Teach for Attention!"  ​
​“After reading Risa Williams’ The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, I found myself immediately underlining and highlighting various tidbits of her advice. Every day I read her book hungrily with a devotion to knowing that she is helping me have a better experience of myself. If you’re looking for practical solutions for anxiety, purchase this book!" – Miguel Chavez, Actor, (A.P. Bio/NBC) ​
​“Williams’ book is filled with imaginative, creative ways to manage all sorts of anxiety with concrete, clear strategies you can try. It’s an easy-going read, and it has thoughtful personal anecdotes that help make understanding anxiety relatable and worksheets that help provide insight. I highly recommend this book!” - Eden Byrne, psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner
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 "The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit" - Independent Publisher Book Awards  - Silver Medal Recipient 

"THE ULTIMATE ANXIETY TOOLKIT is a practical workbook that challenges the reader by prompting reflection to apply each tool into daily scenarios.

Utilizing relatable, real life examples for overcoming the mental battle with anxiety, author Risa Williams creates material that is truly absorbable and not easily forgotten once the book is set down." - IndieReader

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Risa Williams a licensed therapist and coach specializing in anxiety and stress reduction tools. She's been featured as an expert in Business Insider, Bustle, UpJourney, Wired, Parade, and HuffPost and she writes for Breathe Magazine, Cultural Daily and LA Parent Magazine. She's also the co-author of the book, Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Reveal About You (Quirk Books). In The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, Williams provides 25 tools based on cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and positive psychology to help readers feel more empowered to change their thinking patterns to more positive ones. Her newest book, The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit, will be available in stores worldwide August 2022.
The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit illustrations by Jennifer Whitney (tools) and Amanda Way (quote pages)
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Video Animation:
​Solomon Carreiro

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