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    If You're Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future
    If You're Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future
    If You're Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future
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    If You're Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future

    By Simone DeAngelis and Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

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    Is everything terrible? Is your life going to shit and your brain's convinced you that you’re utterly screwed? Have you found yourself in a dark place with no way out? Are you having trouble holding onto reality and getting out of the dumps? All of the above? Sounds like you're freaking out.Simone has been there. During her hardest days, she made herself a book to remind her, page by page, exactly what to do to get herself out of danger. She shares her template here so that you can create your own guide suited to your needs, along with pages and pages of workbook exercises to help. She also shares the vital skills and affirmations that she's learned over the years for managing her mental health and remembering her reasons to live. Even if you can't afford a therapist or hospital stay and the people around you are anything but helpful, you can still use those same tools to get better. It can be difficult sometimes to acknowledge to yourself that you’re worth it. It might be downright unbearable. But you know what? You’re so WORTH IT! And this book is here to help you realize it.With a foreword by the one-and-only Dr. Faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMicrocosm Publishing
    Release dateJan 14, 2020
    ISBN9781621060697
    If You're Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future
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    Simone DeAngelis

    Simone DeAngelis was born and raised in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her two dogs. In 2012, she entered intense psychiatric care, where she took the tools she learned and made them her own, and made the decision to stay alive. She has developed a deep knowledge and passion for skills that help in navigating the sometimes rocky waters of life. After earning her bachelor's degree in education, she began applying her experience as a patient to her experience as a teacher. She uses her teaching and coping skills to assist others during life's monotony and chaos. Sharing these skills with others has become a piece in the foundation of her life's purpose.

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      If You're Freaking Out, Read This - Simone DeAngelis

      If You’re Freaking Out, Read This

      A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future

      © Simone DeAngelis, 2020

      Introduction by Dr. Faith G. Harper

      First edition © Microcosm Publishing, 2020

      ISBN 978-1-62106-069-7

      This is Microcosm #199

      Edited by Cynthia Marts

      Cover and Design by Joe Biel

      Illustrations by Simone DeAngelis

      Author photo by Adrian Osella

      For a catalog, write or visit:

      Microcosm Publishing

      2752 N Williams Ave.

      Portland, OR 97227

      www.Microcosm.Pub

      Microcosm Publishing is Portland’s most diversified publishing house and distributor with a focus on the colorful, authentic, and empowering. Our books and zines have put your power in your hands since 1996, equipping readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them. Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and bookettes about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice. What was once a distro and record label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom and has become among the oldest independent publishing houses in Portland, OR. We are a politically moderate, centrist publisher in a world that has inched to the right for the past 80 years.

      Dear Reader,

      If you are freaking out right now, the most important thing to know is that you are not alone in your suffering. If you think you are, you have more to learn. You are connected in this moment to all of those who have suffered in the same way. Your suffering is not unique, and that can be healing if you allow it to be. Breathe.

      There are moments where you are just freaking the fuck out. Freak outs look different for everyone. For some it’s self-harm, for others it’s throwing plates, uncontrollable tears, and impulsive text messages. Sometimes it’s suffering quietly. It is alright to have these moments. Everyone does. No one is one-hundred percent chill all the time. Not even you.

      The ten coping skills that open this book are the tools that have worked very well for me in dealing with freak-outs, and they might work for you, too. The purpose of these coping skills is to get you to a place where you are able to feel and express your emotions in a productive way.

      This book compiles the many great coping skills I have learned from my teachers, therapists, mentors, and peers, so that you can have them to refer to when you need it. I also try to bring hope and illustrate concepts by sharing how I handle pieces of my life.

      Each chapter includes space to keep track of the skills that work best for you. Take these skills and explore ways in which you can apply them to your own life, so when you’re freaking out, you can read this.

      —Simone

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION

      PART ONE: BREATHE

      TAKE A MOMENT TO BREATHE

      REMEMBER YOUR ONENESS

      SIT WITH DEPRESSION

      RADICAL ACCEPTANCE

      PART TWO: MOVE

      FEEL YOUR BODY

      TAKE TEN STEPS

      GO OUTSIDE

      CROSS A ROOM

      WORKING OUT FEELS BETTER

      PART THREE: REACH OUT

      PRACTICE SAYING YES

      TALKING (OR NOT) ABOUT TRAUMA

      MIND READING ONLY SEEMS EASIER THAN COMMUNICATION

      FORGIVE YOURSELF, ADMIT THE MISTAKES

      PART FOUR: SAY THANK YOU

      GRATITUDE LISTS

      THANK OTHERS

      HAPPY JARS

      PART FIVE: TAKE A SHOWER

      PRACTICE DAILY (FUTURE YOU WILL THANK YOU

      SHOW UP

      AIM FOR CONSISTENCY, NOT CERTAINTY

      PART SIX: SAY I LOVE YOU

      BE KIND TO YOURSELF FIRST

      TAKE CARE OF YOUR INNER CHILD

      PART SEVEN: WRITE

      WRITE IT OUT

      PROS & CONS

      ADDRESS GRIEF

      WRITE YOURSELF A LETTER

      PART EIGHT: THINK ABOUT HOW COOL YOU ARE

      SELF TALK & AFFIRMATIONS

      HEY, IT'S OKAY TO NOT KNOW

      PART NINE: RELAX

      WHEN YOU NEED TO SCREAM

      WANTING TO BE HAPPY

      PART TEN: INTERACT WITH THE WORLD

      BE AUTHENTIC (WITHOUT SHAME)

      LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR VALUES

      GET LOST IN A BOOK

      CONCLUSION

      ABOUT

      There is a story I

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