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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Join the mailing list for book updates! Do you struggle with feeling anxious? Do you need help managing stress? Would you like to feel more confident? Then, this book is for you! Packed with creative exercises, fun neuroscience facts, inventive worksheets and illustrations, The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem 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 actionable strategies that are useful at any age.” - Erica Curtis, author of "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art" |
What People Are Saying...
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“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, Author of “Teach for Attention! A Tool Belt of Strategies for Engaging Students with Attention Challenges" |
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“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 creative worksheets that help provide insight. I highly recommend this book!”
- Eden Byrne, psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner |
“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) |
About the Author
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 and LA Parent Magazine, and she was recently interviewed by Authority Magazine. She's also an award-winning university professor with a background in the arts, and the co-author of the book, Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Reveal About You (Quirk Books). In The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, she 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.
"This is the sort of self-help book that makes you feel like
you can truly change your life and smile while doing it."
"Can coping with anxiety really be fun? With this anxiety toolkit, it certainly is! "
“As a creative professional, I appreciate these easy to use tools that can be applied to so many daily stressful situations!”
- Camille Brown, film director
"Everyone is anxious sometimes, so everyone can benefit from The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit. The exercises are simple, practical and immediate and the neuroscience nuggets tell you how they work. The affirmations aren’t pie-in-the sky daydreams.
They are statements you make come true with the help of Risa Williams' toolkit."
- Christina Elston, Editor of L.A. Parent Magazine
- Camille Brown, film director
"Everyone is anxious sometimes, so everyone can benefit from The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit. The exercises are simple, practical and immediate and the neuroscience nuggets tell you how they work. The affirmations aren’t pie-in-the sky daydreams.
They are statements you make come true with the help of Risa Williams' toolkit."
- Christina Elston, Editor of L.A. Parent Magazine
The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit illustrations by Jennifer Whitney (tools) and Amanda Way (quote pages)
Video Editing and Animation: Solomon Carreiro
For media/PR inquiries, contact: risawilliamstherapy@gmail.com
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Copyright Risa Williams 2020
Video Editing and Animation: Solomon Carreiro
For media/PR inquiries, contact: risawilliamstherapy@gmail.com
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Copyright Risa Williams 2020