Stuff That Sucks
Pages:
Series:
Imprint:
Publication date:
Categories:
Product Code:
ISBN: 9781626258655
About the Book
Sometimes everything sucks. This unique, illustrated guide will help you move past negative thoughts and feelings and discover what truly matters to you.
If you struggle with negative thoughts and emotions, you should know that your pain is real. No one should try to diminish it. Sometimes stuff really does suck and we have to acknowledge it. Worry, sadness, loneliness, anger, and shame are big and important, but they can also get in the way of what really matters. What if, instead of fighting your pain, you realized what really matters to you—and put those things first in life? If you did that, maybe your pain wouldn’t feel so big anymore. Isn’t it worth a try?
Stuff That Sucks offers a compassionate and validating guide to accepting emotions, rather than struggling against them. With this book as your guide, you’ll learn to prioritize your thoughts, feelings, and values. You’ll figure out what you care about the most, and then start caring some more! The skills you’ll learn are based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Yes, there are a few written exercises, but this isn’t a workbook. It’s a journey into the stuff that sucks, what makes that sucky stuff suck even more, and how just a few moments each day with the stuff that matters will ultimately transform the stuff that sucks into stuff that is just stuff. Make sense?
Maybe you want to be more creative? Or maybe you simply want to do better in school or be a better friend? This book will show you how to focus on what you really care about, so that all that other sucky stuff doesn’t seem so, well, sucky anymore.
Contributors
Books by Ben Sedley
Praise
—Booklist
—Russell Kolts, PhD, professor of psychology at Eastern Washington University, and author of CFT Made Simple and The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger
—Joe Oliver, PhD, director at Contextual Consulting, and coauthor of ACTivate Your Life
—Tiffany Rochester, clinical psychologist at The Charles Street Clinic in North Perth, Australia
—Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple
—Steven C. Hayes, PhD, codeveloper of ACT, and author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
Stuff That Sucks delivers with powerful images, clear messages on what it means to be a human, and lots of ideas for helping teens. A fabulous book.”
—Louise Hayes, PhD, coauthor of The Thriving Adolescent and Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens
—Benjamin Schoendorff, MA, MSc, founder of the Contextual Psychology Institute in Montreal, QC, Canada; international acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer; and coauthor of the recent The Essential Guide to the ACT Matrix and The ACT Practitioner’s Guide to the Science of Compassion
Other Recommendations
-
Julie Greiner-Ferris and Manjit Kaur Khalsa3.5$19.95
-
Stefan G. Hofmann4.272725$24.95
-
Michele L. Blume3.444445$16.95
-
Steven C. Hayes and Michael P. Twohig4.17808$44.95
-
Debra Kissen, Ashley D. Kendall, Michelle Lozano and Micah Ioffe4.23077$16.95
-
Thomas Marra3.510205$25.95
-
Leslie Becker-Phelps4.081965$17.95
-
Colleen E. Carney and Rachel Manber3.7093$17.95
-
Second EditionJohn P. Forsyth and Georg H. Eifert3.525$24.95
-
David A. Carbonell4.48148$16.95
-
Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman2.88889$16.95
-
Second EditionJeffrey Brantley4.21839$17.95
-
David H. Klemanski and Joshua E Curtiss4.145455$16.95
-
Ryan M. Niemiec3.766665$24.95
-
Timothy A. Sisemore3.363635$19.95
-
Alexander L. Chapman, Kim L. Gratz and Matthew T Tull3.46094$25.95
-
Mark Matousek2.76923$16.95
-
Patrick Fanning and Matthew McKay3.676925$19.95
-
Jennifer R. Wolkin0$16.95
-
Joseph V. Ciarrochi and Louise L. Hayes3.214285$17.95