Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace

A practicing psychologist--one of the top popularizers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)--offers a fresh, welcome approach for treating mental health issues that speaks to our times, blending mindfulness and spirituality with CBT to effectively overcome negative thinking, achieve deep healing, and truly attain lasting peace.

Mental health professionals have many science-based techniques for alleviating symptoms like anxiety and depression. However, these reductive approaches often don't deliver the lasting peace we long for. Practicing psychologist and one of the top popularizers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dr. Seth Gillihan believes we need to do more than relieve our symptoms to become healthy and whole. To achieve long-lasting health and well-being, we must embrace the spiritual in our healing.

Gillihan's mindful cognitive behavioral therapy method blends insights from CBT, mindfulness, Stoicism, and Christian mysticism into the therapeutic process. He reveals how we can use this method in our daily lives to master negative thoughts and choose the right actions to become fully present and at peace.

This extraordinary guide teaches us how to retrain our minds to banish the stubborn lies we tell ourselves and adapt new healthful and spiritual practices that can help us focus on the deep truths of our existence--that we are perfect in our imperfections, and most important, that we are beings deserving of love.

ISBN-13: 9780063075719

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 12-06-2022

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, is a psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Before focusing on his private practice in 2012, he was a full-time faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and taught in the Psychology Department at Haverford College. He received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of multiple books on mindfulness and CBT and the host of the Think Act Be podcast. He lives in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

1 Hear the Call l

2 Connect with Yourself 17

3 Find Leverage 34

4 Say Yes 59

5 Practice Mindful Awareness 81

6 Connect with Your World 107

7 Offer Thanks 125

8 Find Rest 142

9 Love Your Body 159

10 Love Others 183

11 Work in Alignment 204

12 Live with Purpose 222

13 Come Home 236

Acknowledgments 251

Notes 255