Compassion-Focused Therapy for Managing Difficult Emotions

Emotions bring meaning, purpose, and pleasure to our lives. However, for many people, they are synonymous with emotional distress, pain, and suffering. Anger and rage can disrupt relationships and cause difficulties at work, anxiety can hinder personal development or engagement in beloved activities, and sadness can create a feeling of being unbearable and endless. Such difficulties are often referred to as difficulties in emotion regulation and can hinder the development of stable and happy relationships, the communication of urgent needs, and flourishing. This practical self-help guide, based on Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), will help the reader adopt a new approach to coping with difficult emotions. It explains not only why people experience emotions, how they can be beneficial to individuals, but also how and why people struggle with their emotions. The book also discusses the model of a compassionate mind and presents a range of exercises that will help the reader develop their compassionate mind to use it for developing useful emotion regulation strategies and achieving balance.