Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong

A Guide to Life Liberated From Anxiety

By: Kelly G. Wilson PhD, Troy DuFrene

Narrated by: Paul Aulridge

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

You don't need a book to tell you this much: Sometimes things fall apart, crack open, and miss the mark. You can plan and strategize and keep your eye on the horizon, watching for trouble. And nothing you can do will protect you from the fact that things might, when you least expect it, go terribly, horribly wrong. If you're anxious about this, it's not like you don't have a reason. If you're very anxious about this, you're certainly not alone. In fact, even if your whole life feels like it's about anxiety, your story is a lot more common that you might imagine.

If you could just get your anxiety to go away, you could get on with the business of living your life, right? Well, maybe - or maybe not. Does anxiety need to go away in order for you to live your life fully, vitally, with richness and purpose?

This audiobook approaches the problem of anxiety a little differently than most. Instead of trying to help you overcome or reduce feelings of anxiety, Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong will help you climb inside these feelings, sit in that place, and see what it would be like to have anxiety and still make room in your life to breathe and rest and live - really and truly live - in a way that matters to you.

Although it's grounded in a research-supported form of psychotherapy called acceptance and commitment therapy, also known as ACT, Things isn't especially technical or stepwise. Rather, the book starts a conversation about why we all sometimes feel anxious and what role that anxiety serves in our lives. It connects the experience of anxiety to the essential experience of human suffering. And then, in sometimes unexpected ways, Things explores some basic ways of being in the world that can change the role anxiety plays in your life.

This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit - an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books.

©2010 Kelly G. Wilson & Troy DuFrene (P)2015 Wetware Media

Well done, information accurate

This book is read in an easy listen to voice. Concepts described in clear and understandable way. My suggestion is to listen through a couple times to bring the information into focus

Very helpful

This book helped me to understand some new ideas on anxiety and get rid of it for good.

Helpful!

I found this book to resonate with regard to anxiety. The last chapter is especially effective.

I love ACT, but there are better ACT texts

What did you like best about Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong? What did you like least?

I love the ideas of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which underlie the advice in this book. So I would probably get a lot from this book if I didn't already know ACT model pretty well. But as someone who has read/listened to a few other texts, I think this one did not stack up. Two audiobooks I would recommend instead would be: "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" by Stephen C Hayes, and "The Confidence Gap" by Russ Harris.

Would you be willing to try another book from Kelly G. Wilson, PhD and Troy DuFrene ? Why or why not?

Yes, because I agree with their ideas, and I think they could probably formulate them in a more compelling/original way in other books.

do not read this if you suffer from anxiety NOW

Any additional comments?

I listened the first hour. Nothing, absolutely nothing helpful about anxiety is said. I was like "CUT TO THE CHASE". It's funny the author considers Steven Hayes as his teacher. Steven Hayes would be ashamed from this book. I find the author's tone very distant and unemphatic. In places, the author felt like he was talking down on us.

P.S: I also hate poems.

Not super helpful

The author spends almost 5 hours belaboring points that he could have discussed in 1.5 hours.