The Mindfulness Toolbox: 50 Practical Tips, Tools & Handouts for Anxiety, Depression, Stress & Pain

Great book for therapists to give handouts to their clients. This book I use to help clients with mindfulness. I am a trauma therapist and mindfulness is one of the tools I use to help others to be in the moment and relieve some of their anxiety and stress. This is a wonderful tool for every day life and living in the moment, to be free and anxiety, panic attacks and depression. Many of my clients have been relieved from their symptoms from doing the work in this book and practicing on a daily basis.

The Mindfulness Toolbox is an excellent resource for therapists and clients! The beauty of Altman's work is he translates mindfulness into achievable,realistic tools with creative language and engaging metaphors The exercises are well crafted and designed to help a person sort through their problems by focusing on one's strengths. This user friendly book also has an excellent reference section for further reading and an easy to use index to help locate information in the book.

I do actually like the layout of this book. It's part of my resources working with my patients on adapting mindful techniques into their daily lives. I keep it simple, but I like to read in this some to prompt my own thoughts for ideas which come with the concepts gained from reading in here. I like the title, think it really is quite fitting. I've always used the analogy with patients, my job is to help them build tools they can place in a toolbox they will carry with them a lifetime when I'm long gone. Truth is, this book has some good mind provoking ideas you can stem off of as you build your own as a therapist or a layman. Even if I don't read the entire thing, I gain from it, as do those I work with. I do suggest it to others without a doubt. Why not 5 stars, I'd have simply done a few things differently, but I'm not going to tare it apart, it deserves respect for the author! They did a fine job. Super would be 5 stars. If I change my views later Ill update​.

I've gone to therapy off and on since 2010 but I never felt better. I always felt so out of control; ruled by my depression and anxiety. Back in February it got really bad...the department chair of my grad program had to pull me out of class and take me to an emergency counseling session because I was on the verge of having a breakdown in the middle of class. But finally I feel in control. Finally I feel empowered. I finally feel like I have tools to help me with my anxiety and depression when they rear their ugly heads. I've also become much better at identifying my thoughts and feelings. The Mindfulness Toolbox helped me do that. This message is for anybody who wants to feel more in control. Who has felt like they have done things before that have just been temporary fixes. For the person who doesn't want to have to depend on another person to help them through their problems. For the person who wants to have the tools to "DIY" CBT. CBT is soooooo expensive. But it's such a great model for depression and anxiety. This book uses a CBT perspective. I recommend this book to so many people. I suggest getting the paperback copy because it's easier to make copies of worksheets. I plan on using this book with my clients (I'm studying to be an occupational therapist) and I currently use it for myself. But having the paperback version made it easy to unbind, make copies, hole punch, and store in a 1" binder for future use.

I’ve paired this book with consistently journaling negative thoughts and spending time in nature everyday. I have finally found peace in my mind and body. My mind isn’t constantly racing over every single mishap, and when it is I’m prepared to deal with it now. My legs and chest don’t constantly feel shaky from holding in so much anxiety . I feel abundantly blessed by this author and finally safe in my own mind and body. You are worth the few minutes a day , it will work with consistenty and patience .

As a therapist this is a great book to use with clients (and excellent to also use on yourself). Definitely recommended.

nice book with a lot of practical issues and tools

As an addiction and mental health counselor, I am using this book at least weekly. I like that it is organized into tips for therapists and each practice is prefaced by what type of learning style could use it most. I also like that the practices are broken into problem areas they would be most helpful for, such as stress or pain. I work with clients of varying attentional and cognitive levels and many of the practices seem to be useful regardless.

Easy to read, follow, and understand

Effective self-help book on relieving anxiety, depression, stress and pain through mindfulness. Contains a lot of useful information and helpful exercises to work through. I am pleased with my purchase and would buy again.

This book was okay. Some of the exercises were a bit "fluffy" and I had to tweak them to suit my clients. I was hoping for more concrete, hands on exercises. My favourite was "Palm the Present Moment" p. 35. It is a great exercise that may become a staple in my sessions. The book did not entirely meet my expectations but I will still use it! More handouts would have been great.

Excellent to use in my therapy room

Great resource for the therapist. :)