Calm the F*ck Down

How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get on with Your Life

By: Sarah Knight

Narrated by: Sarah Knight

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Tame anxiety and take back control of your life with this "genius" (Cosmopolitan) no-f*cks-given guide from the bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together.

Do you spend more time worrying about problems than solving them? Do you let unexpected difficulties ruin your day and do "what ifs" keep you up at night? Sounds like you need to Calm the F*ck Down.

Just because things are falling apart doesn't mean YOU can't pull it together. Whether you're stressed about sh*t that hasn't happened yet or freaked out about sh*t that already has, the NoWorries method from "anti-guru" Sarah Knight helps you curb the anxiety and overthinking that's making everything worse. Calm the F*ck Down explains:

• The Four Faces of Freaking Out—and their Flipsides
• How to accept what you can't control
• Productive Helpful Effective Worrying (PHEW)
• The Three Principles of Dealing With It
• And much more!

Find even more calm with the Calm the F*ck Down Journal.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Sarah Knight (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Highly enjoyed this book

This book is reasonable and pragmatic in approach. I had a series of major blows in 2018 including injury, relationship, and career that left me often waking in the middle of the night with panic attacks. I found this book very helpful in reclaiming perspective and refocusing my energies in productive ways. Crating my emuppies has become one of my go to lines. And categorizing my storms has been one of the most helpful tactics so far. Sarah is a funny lady. I’ve found myself laughing out loud several times throughout the book. I enjoyed this book so much I decided to grab another by her.

I noticed another review mentioned that she slams Trump. I agree political jabs in either direction have grown old, but she might have a total of 3 witty, quick, sentences about him in the entire book, easily dismissive for the greater content! It really does not have a political undertone to it at all so don’t let that dissuade you.

Disappointed

I purchased this book because I am currently in crisis. While getting ready for work this morning I decided to start listening. Within the first 20 minutes or so of the narration, Sarah, not so thinly veiled, slams President Trump. "In an election of monumental consequence, millions of people cast their vote for an ingrown toenail in a cheap red hat" (yes, I had to listen to that twice to be sure of what I heard.) I chose this book so I can continue to move forward from my situation, not to listen to nasty negative slams on the administration. I cannot watch any news without the hate, I cannot participate in social media without being barraged with hate and I didn't expect it from a self help book.I am hopeful that audible will refund my credit so I can make better selection. As a side note: Rachel Hollis' "girl wash your face" is wildly popular. Everyone that I know that has read it, both liberal and conservative friends, loved it! Here's a thought.She didn't bring politics into her story!

Waste of time

It’s not helpful. It’s just stories about her misfortunes and about her adventures that get in the way of her drinking.
Greatly disappointing.
And truly what was the point of the book? Except her trying to sell her other books by constantly referring to them?

Just do yourself a favor and don’t.

Sarah Knight is a Treasure

This is the fourth audiobook of Sarah’s that I have listened to. Her books are like visiting a good friend you haven’t seen in a while. Her books are helpful and inspiring - and I LOVE that she swears. I even appreciate it. I love her books - this one came at a time I really needed it. I highly recommend this book!

Cute but lacks substance

I tried to listen to the whole book. I really did. Unfortunately, behind the sarcasm, humor, cute and self-promotional comments that make up most of this book, the simplistic advice that was left was just that, simplistic. This style of the author would make a great and entertaining keynote but that’s about it. Thumbs down from me.

call it what you want

I just could not continue taking advice from someone who is overreacting about petty things in her vacation style life on a tropical island. I have more serious struggles.

Dont waste your time...

Overly simple with spurts of cute bad language and a catchy title. Could not even finish this. Cute marketing at its best but no meat on the pages.

I wanted so hard to like this

I love the objective of this book- there are so many helpful tips and insights contained in it and I was really trying to soak it all in, but the persistent political commentary and jabs really turned me off. I understand that the author and myself might not share the same views, but in a book that is supposed to help people be their best self, the amount of negativity repeated made me feel like they were becoming personal attacks. If it was once, maybe twice, OK, but it got old after a while and I could not even finish this. Joke is on me though, the author already has my money. I wish the author could have separated her views from the subject matter, but she cannot, and that is a big turn off.

F**k F**K F**k

Seems like the author only learned how to swear up and down and all around. This F**king book f**king sucks.

Genuinely helpful

This book was genuinely helpful, I like the casual listening style of this book and the comedic approach also. As I made it to about the middle of the book there were certain things that really did help me release past stresses and worries and also current worries,so along with being funny this book is actually helpful in terms of accomplishing what it is designed to do which is to give you a new way of looking at issues worries and problems. I definitely recommend the listen and read.