The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

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By understanding the worry trick and implementing the strategies outlined in the book, readers can break free from the cycle of worry and embrace a more peaceful and fulfilling existence. These responses are natural, but ultimately harmful – worry is tricking you into making things worse. Carbonell provides practical tips for developing self-compassion, such as practicing self-kindness, acknowledging our imperfections, and treating ourselves with the same kindness and understanding we would offer to a friend.

David A Carbonell personifies worry, in doing so, he allows the reader to take a different perspective on worrying. I would give it five stars, but it lacks an index, which is a no-no in a non-fiction book, in my opinion. In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all. Since then, I’ve done a lot of personal techniques to overcome anxiety, some of which are reflected in this book.The examples were short but on point and they served the purpose of each chapter, and I really like that because I don't see the point of a book (like self help books) which mostly contains stories and experiences of other persons. There are three techniques you can work into your day that will help strengthen your worry immune system, so to speak.

Not only is Dave a friend; he is a collaborator, a fellow speaker, and he has a dry, witty sense about him.

I can say that after reading this book, I have taken away a more insightful approach to my worry and why it happens, and I have started to use techniques that are helping me handle it so that it doesn't consume me. He does mention meditation and breathing, but also gives some different advice like writing your worries into limericks and haikus, or singing funny rhyme songs about it. I have pretty bad anxiety and panic attacks, I'm a new sufferrer trying anything and everything I can to "get rid of it", this book is relateable funny but sometimes hard to follow. really didn't help me deal well with my worry, so I kicked off 2021 with this personal development book, and I learned a lot! It leads you to spend more and more time “in your head,” in your internal world, trying to get your thoughts arranged the way you think they should be, always struggling and fussing with worry rather than getting out into your external world and living, doing whatever it takes to be the good parent, good friend, good employee, good neighbor, or good whoever you always wanted to be.

Finally, someone has written a book about worry that I can give to my clients that I’m certain will be helpful to them as they struggle to better understand and deal with their constant worrying. When the babbling of our cerebral cortex, rather than the self-defense of our amygdala, is center stage. So, if worry is affecting your life, don’t miss out on the solutions—and yes, the fun—you will find in The Worry Trick. I have no doubt that this book would make a big difference in their life and in the lives of others. One must accept "oh yeah, there's my brain doing its anxiety thing" and then go on with life without trying to make it go away.This eye-opening approach successfully strives to help chronic worriers work with the current of their thoughts rather than focus on how they are thinking “wrong.