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The Mindful Freak-Out is written for people who are suffering during emotionally painful moments, such as when:
- You are facing anxiety or panic that seems to take over your life.
- The ferocity of anger that you are feeling threatens to damage relationships.
- Your life feels overwhelming, like you just cant take it anymore.
When life serves you up an intensely distressing moment (and life will find a way), you are in a competition with your inner threat system for control over you. Your threat system will try to take over and make you react impulsively. When this happens, you not only suffer from the painful emotion, but are left with distressing consequences.
The Mindful Freak-Out presents strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to give you the evidence-based tools you need to face highly distressing moments. The goal of these strategies is to soothe your suffering while giving you the inner strength, wisdom, and commitment needed to face the emotional pain in a flexible way that you feel good about (rather than deeply regretting your words or actions later on).
Loaded with practical advice, exercises, and information, this book will help you harness the power of mindfulness and compassion to live your best life, even when intensely painful emotions show up.
- Anxiety & Depression Association of America
For Goodman, the answer is with intention and compassion rather than reactivity. “Other animals … have to go along with whatever their nervous systems are doing,” he says. “But if humans can get mindful, if they can get off autopilot and just be in the moment, unhooked from the stories that their mind’s telling them, then they can choose to respond to things that are based on who they want to be — their value system rather than just their threat instincts.”
- BezzyBC.com
“Running on autopilot can make you behave in ways you will later regret, The Mindful Freak-Out by clinical psychologist Dr Eric Goodman can help you maintain control. It’s loaded with practical advice, exercises and information to help you harness the power of mindfulness to live your best life”.
- Better Homes and Gardens Magazine
“In this highly interesting conversation, Eric Goodman, Ph.D lecturer at Calpol State University, will shed much light on what anxiety really is and on why only two types of people never have anxiety: psychopaths and dead people. In the end we hope you will agree that demonizing anxiety cause more problems than it solves, and with self-compassion coupled with exposure therapy we can minimize it and live a normal life.”
- Creating with Franz, podcast interview