Activate Your Life - by Joe Oliver (Paperback)

About the Book

"Embark on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and personal growth with ACTivate Your Life. This second edition, now in a user-friendly workbook format, equips you with powerful tools derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you set meaningful goals and breathe new life into your being."--

Book Synopsis

Embark on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and personal growth with ACTivate Your Life. This second edition, now in a user-friendly workbook format, equips you with powerful tools derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you set meaningful goals and breathe new life into your being.

- A clear introduction to the ACT approach
- Real life scenarios to make the examples come alive
- Workbook activities for clinicians and clients

Learn to enhance your life skills and change your behaviour for the better!

From the Back Cover

'The human mind does not come with an owner's manual, but this book covers much of what you need to know. It shows how just three critical skills can be cultivated and used that will make a profound difference in your life - addressing problems like depression, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem. Simple and clear, it gives you the tools to move forward, now'
Prof. Steven C. Hayes, co-developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

Embark on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and personal growth with ACTivate Your Life. This second edition, now in a user-friendly workbook format, equips you with powerful tools derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you set meaningful goals and breathe new life into your being.

- A clear introduction to the ACT approach
- Real life scenarios to make the examples come alive
- Workbook activities for clinicians and clients

Learn to enhance your life skills and change your behaviour for the better!

JOE OLIVER is a clinical psychologist and Director for Contextual Consulting, offering ACT focused training, supervision and psychological therapy. He is also an associate professor at University College London.

JON HILL is a corporate trainer and executive coach, helping to develop leaders and employees who are healthy, resilient and psychologically flexible.

ERIC MORRIS is a clinical psychologist, researcher and academic at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He trains and supervises ACT therapists.

Review Quotes

ACTivate Your Life with this fantastic new self-help book. Based on the revolutionary new therapy - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) - this comprehensive workbook will help you to effortlessly navigate your way through the challenges in your life and transform it for the better. Whether you simply feel a little stuck or are chronically depressed, the three simple steps (Open, Aware and Active), case studies and worksheets will support you on your journey to enjoying life again

All the latest research and a wealth of clinical experience have gone into this book. Clear, friendly language, fun illustrations and easy to use worksheets cut through the tangle of difficult thoughts and feelings so many people struggle with and allow themselves to be held back by. A state of the art, logical and supportive book that reassures you that you are not a freak for struggling in the first place, helps you identify the unhelpful strategies that drive and maintain your difficulties, builds your resilience and unlocks your potential

ACT helps me when I'm struggling or having a tough day, and it helps clients I work with too. This book uses new metaphors, reframes 'classic' ACT images and presents realistic examples to explain the concepts in a way that makes them understandable and worth trying. I will recommend this to clients and friends

Destined to become an ACT self-help classic, ACTivate Your Life provides a witty and charming delivery of ACT concepts that brings the reader along in a compassionate and gentle style. The examples are easy to identify with and the exercises well-timed. A great way to be introduced to the ACT model and an excellent contribution from creative and influential authors in the ACT field

Psychological suffering is inevitably interwoven into human life and this book addresses that simple truth. Although it is only natural to not want to suffer, desperate attempts to blow out the flame of emotional suffering often make it even bigger. ACTivate Your Life proposes how to deal with our vulnerabilities, weaknesses and imperfections without struggle, and teaches us how to meet them with gentleness and self-compassion. The book can be used by everyone as a guide to navigating a wide range of common psychological problems and challenges, such as depression, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem

The human mind does not come with an owner's manual, but this book covers much of what you need to know. It shows how just three critical skills can be cultivated and used that will make a profound difference in your life - addressing problems like depression, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem. Simple and clear, it gives you the tools to move forward, now

This book is not a magic wand that will effortlessly free you from all of your problems: it invites you to actively participate in what could be hard personal work. Written with great wisdom and expertise, but also from a place of compassion and full of our common humanity, Oliver, Hill Morris have placed in your hands a supremely practical resource for changing how you approach your life, and building a more meaningful and fully-lived existence

This outstanding new book allows you to use the ACT approach to bring a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and vitality into your own life right now. This is an excellent resource for anyone struggling with anxiety, worry, depression, lack of self-esteem, loss of life direction, or anger issues. However, I want to be bold here and suggest that everyone should read this book. Why? Because it shows how modern psychology views the human condition, and illustrates how to relate skilfully to the strange internal world of thought and emotion that we all experience

An inspiring, powerful and practical guide to a richer, fuller life. The authors guide us, with great compassion and wisdom, through the trials and tribulations of the human condition - and how to overcome them. Packed with powerful, easy-to-use tools and strategies, this book can help anyone to rise above stress, anxiety and depression, and cultivate greater health, happiness and wellbeing.--Dr Russ Harris, author of the million-copy bestseller, The Happiness Trap

About the Author

Joe Oliver is a clinical psychologist and founder of Contextual Consulting, a consultancy offering ACT-focused training, supervision and psychological therapy. He is also an associate professor at University College, London.

Jon Hill is a corporate trainer and executive coach, and is the founder of Blueprint Coaching and Training. He helps develop leaders and employees who are healthy, resilient and psychologically flexible.

Eric Morris is a clinical psychologist and academic at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Eric has extensive experience in providing contextual cognitive behavioural therapies (including ACT) to individuals and groups, along with training and supervising therapists.