Be the Boss of Your Worry: How to Understand and Manage Anxiety

By Jennifer Bronsnick LCSW

There’s a lot of information out there about coping with anxiety. Maybe you’ve read countless books and articles on managing anxiety… but still find yourself struggling to manage stress when it arises in your life. What is one supposed to make of the seemingly endless resources on anxiety in the world? Where do you even start?

Licensed clinical social worker Jennifer Bronsnick is here to make the journey to managing your anxiety a little bit easier. In Be the Boss of Your Worry, an audio course from Scribd, Bronsnick offers a comprehensive look at anxiety and its function in our lives, explains the “six essential cognitive patterns” for handling anxiety, and shares a number of techniques for coping. Bronsnick encourages listeners to forge their own path to anxiety management, experimenting with various methods and holding on to the ones that work. She also explains how you can empower others to manage their anxiety more effectively and recommends exercises so you can start applying her techniques right away.

Be the Boss of Your Worry holds the keys to understanding and managing anxiety. Take a listen — you might just find your new favorite coping technique!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Jul 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094429199

Jennifer Bronsnick LCSW

Jennifer Bronsnick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Anxiety Treatment Specialist. She supports women and teen girls who struggle with anxiety, self-doubt & perfectionism tap into their innate resilience, get to the root of their fears and implement custom healing strategies so that they can experience peace of mind, more self-confidence and be liberated from the suffering that living with anxiety causes. For more from Jennifer Bronsnick, visit her website, jenniferbronsnick.com.

Book preview

1

Introduction

Welcome! My name is Jennifer Bronsnick. I’m so happy that you’re here. I am so proud and amazed that you decided to take this first step into becoming the boss of your worry.

There’s a wealth of information on how to deal with anxiety. Maybe you’ve already encountered some coping mechanisms, but you haven’t found them useful. Hopefully, this course will offer you some new perspectives on and methods for handling anxiety. In the first unit, we’ll take a comprehensive look at anxiety — what it is and why we have it. In the next couple units, we’ll talk about how you can cope with anxiety using what I call the six essential cognitive patterns and other techniques. We’ll wrap up by discussing how to empower others to manage their own anxiety.

Using cognitive, breathing, and mindfulness techniques, we’ll learn how to deal with anxiety. We’ll also talk about some practical tips for becoming more resilient in the face of fear. That’s the overall goal of the course.

In case we don’t know each other, my name is Jennifer Bronsnick. I’m a licensed clinical social worker and a certified anxiety treatment professional. Not only have I been in this field for almost 20 years, but I myself have been living with anxiety since about age 2. I know exactly how hard it is to stand up to fear. I understand that desire to hide away, to be comfortable and stay snuggled up on the couch. But I also know that there is so much beauty, joy, and excitement in the world when we begin to show up for ourselves and say, Okay fear, get in the back seat. I’m sick of you bossing me around.

You are so important. You’re so special. The world needs you to show up, share your gifts, and be your authentic self without being held back and weighed down by the heavy energy of fear.

If you’re ready for evidence-based, effective techniques for managing anxiety, look no further. Let’s get started by diving into unit 1! I can’t wait to see you there.

2

Anxiety 101

Congratulations on joining