Identifying the real meaning of thoughts can be tricky, especially for anyone struggling with chronic worry. Today, clinical psychologist and anxiety expert Dr. David Carbonell discusses his approach to dealing with to worrisome thoughts. It involves new ways of responding to them, rather than trying to eliminate them.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the popular audiobook The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, by Dr. David Carbonell. This audiobook shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry—once and for all.

In this episode, Dr. Carbonell talks about how it’s easy to get fooled by our thoughts— especially worrisome thoughts. The real meaning of the worrisome thoughts generally has little to do with the subject matter of the thoughts. In this excerpt, he shares his approach to dealing with chronic worry.

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Finding a solution to the problem of chronic worry is going to involve new ways of responding to it, not efforts to abolish it.

The Worry Trick

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