Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

By: Jennifer Shannon LMFT

Narrated by: Jennifer Lund Jorgens

The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious "monkey mind", stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave.

Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branch - endlessly moving from fear to safety. If you are one of the millions of people whose life is affected by anxiety, you are familiar with this process. Unfortunately, you can't switch off the "monkey mind", but you can stop feeding the monkey - or stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear.

Written by psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon, this book shows you how to stop anxious thoughts from taking over using proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques. By following the exercises in this book, you'll learn to identify your own anxious thoughts, question those thoughts, and uncover the core fears at play.

Once you stop feeding the monkey, there are no limits to how expansive your life can feel. This book will show you how anxiety can only continue as long as you try to avoid it. And, paradoxically, only by seeking out and confronting the things that make you anxious can you reverse the cycle that keeps your fears alive.

©2017 Jennifer Shannon (P)2017 Jennifer Shannon

One of the best books on managing anxiety.

If you are looking for a practical and easy to understand book on managing your anxiety, this is it. I have read many books and found this one extremely helpful.

Clear, useful

An easy listen, simple but helpful concepts, based on research, helpful examples and worksheets, clearly written and clearly spoken by narrator. Only negative is the audio compression which results in some static.

Newfound Perspective

I've learned about anxiety, CBT, leadership and growth my entire life. it's very rare that I find someone that can give me a true perspective shift, and Jennifer Shannon's perspective was exactly what I needed. This book is shorter than many I've forced myself to sit through yet i extracted far more from it than others. I enjoyed listening to Jennifer Lund read as well; her voice was genuine, natural, and calming. While other authors trigger my ADHD and I find myself having to start chapters over and over again, I never had to do that with this book.

Great Book! Very helpful.

Great book and very helpful! Recommend to all who want to improve there lives. I will re-listen to it multiple times.

Great! Great! Great!

It deserves more stars. If you have any issues at all with anxiety, worry, or fear, this book will help you. It nailed everything I've been dealing with. There were times I had to laugh because it seemed she was addressing me personally.... it makes so much sense. I'll read it again and again, and I plan to buy it for a couple of my loved ones. I also have to give credit to the narrator; Jennifer Lund Jorgens was awesome!