Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Getting Started | p. 2 |
Who Can This Book Help? | p. 2 |
How to Use This Workbook | p. 3 |
Getting to Know the Main Concepts and Skills | |
Emotions | p. 7 |
The "No Feeling" Contract | p. 8 |
Loss and Emotion | p. 8 |
Unraveling Your False Beliefs about Emotions | p. 11 |
Emotion Dodging | p. 15 |
Getting to Know Your Feelings | p. 19 |
Thoughts | p. 27 |
How Thoughts Connect to Emotions | p. 27 |
Repeat-Offender Thoughts | p. 29 |
Why Is Your Thinking Misleading? | p. 36 |
Considering the Evidence | p. 37 |
Distracting Thoughts | p. 41 |
Behaviors | p. 47 |
A Ghost Fleeing Bullets | p. 47 |
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | p. 48 |
Choosing the Opposite | p. 51 |
Values | p. 58 |
Learning More about Choosing the Opposite | p. 64 |
Mindfulness | p. 69 |
Observing Your Mind without Judgment | p. 70 |
Imaginary Lions | p. 71 |
Practicing Mindfulness | p. 72 |
How to Breathe | p. 75 |
Radical Acceptance | p. 76 |
The Serenity Prayer | p. 78 |
Fight, Flight, or FLOAT | p. 79 |
Looking at Your Losses | |
Loss | p. 85 |
What Is Loss? | p. 86 |
Why Look at Old Losses? | p. 86 |
Taking a Look at Your Losses | p. 88 |
Exploring the Impact of Your Losses | p. 93 |
Connecting Your Losses | p. 98 |
Addiction | p. 103 |
What Is an Addiction? | p. 104 |
Uncovering the Time Line of Your Addictive Behavior | p. 115 |
Switching to Another Addiction | p. 119 |
Journey to Wellness | p. 119 |
Connecting Addiction and Loss | p. 123 |
The Loss-Addiction Cycle | p. 124 |
The Addiction and Loss Time Line | p. 126 |
Loss Anniversaries | p. 129 |
Moving Forward | |
Mindful Grieving | p. 141 |
Coping after a Loss | p. 143 |
Nothing Works? | p. 145 |
Radical Acceptance Revisited | p. 148 |
Personal Resiliency | p. 150 |
Grieving the Loss | p. 151 |
Resiliency in Action | p. 153 |
Relationships | p. 155 |
Basic Communication Skills | p. 157 |
Identifying Unhealthy Relationships | p. 164 |
Healing Broken Relationships | p. 168 |
Building a Healthy Social Support System | p. 178 |
Managing Social Discomfort | p. 180 |
Recovery, Relapse Prevention, and Beyond | p. 185 |
Nutrition | p. 186 |
Sleep | p. 189 |
Fitness | p. 192 |
Work | p. 195 |
Fun | p. 198 |
Resources for Your Journey | p. 205 |
References | p. 213 |
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