The Worry Trick

How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

By: David Carbonell PhD

Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.

Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply "tricked" you into thinking you are? 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.

Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence. Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this audiobook is designed to help you break the cycle of worry.

Worry convinces us there's danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode - even when there is no danger. The techniques in this audiobook, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, show you how to see the trick that underlies your anxious thoughts, and how avoidance can backfire and make anxiety worse.

If you're ready to start observing your anxious feelings with distance and clarity - rather than getting tricked once again - this audiobook will show you how.

©2016 David A. Carbonell (P)2016 Wetware Media

A very great insightful book, recommanded! Thanks!

great book with simple yet effective explanation about chronic worry. Thanks to the author :)

Amazing book

This book hit so many points with me, I almost felt like David had taken a swim around my brain. It almost brought me to tears several times with how accurate it is, and I will try using the tools that he gives during the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who has problems with overthinking and worrying.

A good approach to anxiety and chronic worry

Although I felt like I was listening to a TV Shopping channel a lot of the time, the narrator does a good job going through this creative book about anxiety and worrying. Yes, we all have it, some have chronic worry and there are solutions for it. This book won't cure your anxiety or teach you how to avoid all the worries we have, but it'll give you great tools (even some funny ones) to deal with the feelings. I enjoyed reading it and listening to it, I felt identified with many of the questions and learned many things about the worry trick.

Kind of silly but helpful

If you actually worry about unrealistic scenarios this may be helpful. Since I worry about things that actually are happening or likely to happen based on recent experience, I didn't find it too useful. But it's well-written and well-performed.

Useful tactics and strategies to combat worry

Great audiobook with concrete and science-backed strategies to better live with and minimize worry. Highly recommended.