Calm & Sense: A Woman's Guide to Living Anxiety-Free - Paperback

by Wendy Leeds (Author)

Written by a licensed psychotherapist who knows what it's like to be anxious, Calm & Sense brings you a broad range of tools for dealing with your anxiety, including: Sound psychological approaches that offer you guidance you can trust; Physical techniques so you can address your anxiety anytime, anywhere; Feasible lifestyle changes to help you avoid many of your anxiety triggers. It also gives voice to stories drawn from the experiences of women who have faced anxiety and learned to manage it successfully. Distinctive in its approach, Calm & Sense is a practical, well-researched resource designed to help women of all ages deal with their anxiety. It is a rare book in that it specifically targets women's unique needs, offering up-to-date research on all aspects of women's anxiety, from its causes to its impact, and the women-specific techniques that work best to ease it.

Author Biography

Wendy is a practicing psychotherapist with both a professional and a personal interest in finding ways to heal anxiety without medication. She has dealt with anxiety all her life and knows what it's like to live with the kind of worry and fear that make the smallest things in life difficult. In 1995, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent several surgeries and six months of chemotherapy. It was at that low point, that she began a life-long journey to create a calm, centered joyful life, for herself and others. She began by reading everything she could get her hands on about anxiety. Then in 2006 she went back to school to earn two graduate degrees in psychology. Over the years, she has assembled an amazing collection of tools, ideas, tips and techniques for dealing with anxiety without medication. She uses many of these tools in her own life, and is passionate about sharing them with others.