F*cking Deal With It: A Journal for Practicing Acceptance and Getting the Hell on with Your Life

Wolfgram, Christina

ISBN 10 : 1632174790 ISBN 13 : 9781632174796

Editeur : Sasquatch Books, 2024

Synopsis

An irreverent, interactive guided journal for anyone who wants to stop being miserable and get the hell on with living. Using the tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the journal includes 45 mental-health journal prompts and exercises you can complete with whatever the f*ck you accidentally bought the last time you were depressed in a craft store.

Ready to transform your life with the power of acceptance? You can try to find an available therapist for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or you can try this guided journal. Packed with prompts and exercises based in ACT and featuring a macrodose of attitude, this illustrated journal will help you accept the inevitable crappy parts of living with humor and perspective, so you can start enjoying the life you have.

Author and mental health influencer Christina Wolfgram walks readers through the four major steps from acceptance to commitment in a way that won't make you barf:

• Why the F*ck Am I So Miserable? Identify your pain points.
• Jealousy Is a Sickness (Get Well Soon, B*tch!) Turn jealousy into inspiration.
• F*cking Deal With It! Accept that sometimes things just suck.
• The Best Is Yet to Come, Baby! Commit to your core values.

Each prompt is designed to meld fun with therapeutic—from fill-in-the-blanks exercises to life lists—all with the author's unique insights, observations, and trauma-induced sense of humor. Try it—what have you got to lose but your misery?

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À propos de l'auteur

Christina Wolfgram is a sit-down comedian because she rarely stands up. Her signature comedy videos have been viewed over a billion times online (no, really, a billion); her series Christina Tried Her Best racked up 100 million+ views. She has a Master’s in Professional Writing and a prescription for Lexapro. Christina founded Crying is Cool, a fashion store for stylish sensitives, and hosts Sobcast the Podcast, where she chronicles her own journey with anxiety, depression, and the horrifying, hilarious reality of being human. She lives in Portland, OR, with her perfect cat.

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INTRODUCTION: How ACT Saved My A$$
When I got diagnosed with depression in 2018, my first instinct was to “cure” myself. In addition to traditional CBT therapy, I overwhelmed my life with herbs, acupuncture, kickboxing, 7 a.m. pilates, sound baths, tarot cards, crystals, witch candles, vegan donuts, spending money on shoes, calling old friends, making new ones, throwing myself into work, paying off my shoe credit card, putting my bare feet in the grass, making boundaries, cutting my own bangs, falling asleep to ASMR videos of a British woman whispering positive affirmations . . . None of it worked.

Not because anything I tried was inherently wrong. In fact, some of it made me feel a lot better! I love tarot cards and acupuncture now. But the more time I dedicated to curing my depression, the more depressed I felt. It reminded me of that phenomenon where once you notice a clock ticking, you can’t unhear it. Your day flips from quiet and peaceful to the never-ending, skull-grating tick, tick, tick. OKAY I FREAKING GET IT TICK I AM GOING TO JUMP OUT OF MY SKIN. Enter acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT.

When I first poked around the concept of ACT, I assumed the acceptance part meant “giving up.” As in: “Welp. I have been diagnosed with depression. Better just give up trying to be happy and accept my new role as a Sad Person.” However, after studying Steven C. Hayes’s thoughtfully crafted ACT workbook, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, I started to see the light. Acceptance absolutely does not mean giving up. Yes, I needed to accept that I will live with depression for my whole life, but it’s up to me to decide what living looks like. It’s less about trying to get out of the ocean and more about swimming with the tide (hope you like metaphors because that’s the first of about eight hundred in this book).

And happy? Pffft. F*ck happiness. Being human means we’re capable of experiencing EVERY. SINGLE. EMOTION. All of them! The whole boxed set! Focusing on happiness alone robs you of a full life. It’s impossible and, honestly, boring. So, where should we put our focus? Well, that’s where the C in ACT comes in. The C is for “cookies,” and we gotta focus on cookies as much as we possibly can. Sorry, I’m kidding. C stands for “commitment.” We need to decide what we commit our time to (so actually, I guess you could pick cookies if you felt really strongly about it). Steve (can I call you Steve, Steven C. Hayes?) refers to these commitments as “values,” but I’ve also heard this similar concept called “purpose,” “calling,” and “intention.” We’ll get into all that mumbo jumbo in Part Four, so get pumped. First, I want to make something clear: this book is not going to magically bring you happiness.

But holy heck, I hope it brings you peace.

Don’t give up!

Lots of love,

Christina 
Sit-Down Comedian, Professional Depressed Person

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sasquatch Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1632174790
• ISBN 13: 9781632174796
• Reliure: Journal de bord
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible