The Positive Effect: Simple CBT Skills to Transform Anxiety and Negativity into Optimism and Hope + Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem

A collection of audiobooks “The Positive Effect: Simple CBT Skills to Turn Anxiety and Negativity into Optimism and Hope” + “Self-Esteem. A Reliable Program of Cognitive Techniques to Strengthen and Maintain Self-Respect”.

Anxiety is often felt like a tight vise: worry, avoidance, and an intrusive internal negativity prevent you from living freely and fully. But it’s possible to get out of that circle. Changing the way you think helps reduce stress, restore calm, and start enjoying life more.

In front of you is a detailed, motivating guide that gathers clear, easy-to-apply tools from positive psychology and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). You’ll learn how to cope with stress, what forms self-confidence, and how to find your own route to inner resilience and satisfaction. This book not only explains how to reduce anxiety, but also teaches you how to manage thoughts and emotions so that everyday life has more joy, harmony, and peace.

What the book is about: you’ll become familiar with current research data in the field of positive psychology and do practical exercises that help you look ahead with hope, strengthen belief in your own abilities, cope with difficulties more easily, and maintain an optimistic outlook. The methods are grounded in a scientific foundation, and their effectiveness has been confirmed experimentally.

Why you should read it: Dan Tomasulo combines evidence-based facts, a lively presentation, and practical recommendations. Inside are simple techniques that help you:
— restore a sense of hope;
— increase motivation;
— develop psychological resilience;
— weaken limiting beliefs;
— build closer, warmer relationships with people.

For whom: for those who are tired of endless struggle with negative thoughts and live in constant tension because of stress and anxiety. The practices from the book help you look at yourself and what’s happening in a new way and gradually improve the quality of your life.

Why it’s been published: millions of people live at their limit — in chronic tension, with anxious thoughts and fears, while only a few turn to specialists. Most try to cope on their own, but background anxiety remains and can intensify into a state that leads to depression. The author shows how to transform anxiety and negativity into hope and start living more fully, offering accessible and effective tools based on modern approaches and the latest scientific findings, and explaining how to apply psychology discoveries in practice and better manage emotional states.

About the author: Dan Tomasulo is a PhD, the author of the popular self-help guide “Learned Hopefulness,” and a lecturer at the Institute of Spirituality, Mind, and Body at the Teachers College of Columbia University. He holds a doctorate in psychology, a master’s degree in creative writing, and a master’s degree in applied positive psychology (University of Pennsylvania). He runs the blog The Healing Crowd on Psychology Today and the positive psychology blog Infijoy (www.infijoy.com).

Key themes: psychology, positive psychology, positive thinking, emotions, self-help, CBT, negative thoughts, motivation.