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Mastering Adulthood
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Mastering Adulthood

Go Beyond Adulting to Become an Emotional Grown-Up

Lara E. Fielding
New Harbinger, 2019

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8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Concrete Examples
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

Psychologist Lara E. Fielding offers a map of the path to adulthood and teaches readers how to gain new skills that can ease disquieting or stressful feelings. People often develop habits to make life easier and then forget why they adopted them in the first place. Fielding suggests using mindfulness to detect and address these habits. She suggests also applying mindfulness to identify and reframe past events that impose a lingering anxiety on your present life. Fielding effectively blends observation, theory and case studies in her discussion of using mindfulness to navigate life’s challenges.

Take-Aways

  • Becoming an adult is a challenge that calls on your ability to cope flexibly with change.
  • People tend to under-regulate when they feel anxiety, panic and despondency, and to over-regulate when they lack motivation.
  • How you think, feel and behave contributes to your personality.

About the Author

Clinical psychologist Lara E. Fielding specializes in mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy. She is an adjunct professor at California’s Pepperdine University.

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