Gwendoline Smith Improving Mental Health Series 2 Books Set - The Book of Overthinking & The Book of Knowing - Paperback Self-Help Non-Fiction

Titles in This Set The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry (Gwendoline Smith - Improving Mental Health Series) The Book of Knowing: Know How You Think, Change How You Feel (Gwendoline Smith - Improving Mental Health Series) Condition : Brand New Format : Paperback Publisher : Allen & Unwin Age Range : Adult Overview This two-book set brings together New Zealand psychologist Gwendoline Smith's bestselling guides to understanding your own mind. The Book of Overthinking tackles the anxious spiral of worry and rumination, while The Book of Knowing lays out how thoughts shape feelings. Written in Smith's warm, witty style and grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy, together they offer a practical toolkit for calmer thinking — a useful gift for anyone who overthinks life's everyday challenges. About the Books Overthinking, ruminating, worrying — it affects almost everyone, and in The Book of Overthinking, Gwendoline Smith explains the difference between positive and negative overthinking, the truth about worry, and how to challenge the "thought viruses" holding you back. Using humour and cognitive behavioural techniques, she offers strategies for relationships, work and everyday life, helping you break destructive thought patterns rather than simply suppress them. Its companion, The Book of Knowing, goes back to first principles, teaching readers to recognise what is happening in their own minds and how thoughts and feelings interact. Written in the same accessible, often funny style, it helps readers get their emotional reactions under control and feel more settled in their place in the world. Together the two books form a natural pair: one builds the foundational understanding of how thinking works, the other applies it directly to chronic overthinking. Both are grounded in real clinical experience and avoid dense jargon in favour of conversational explanations, illustrations and exercises readers can put into practice immediately. Two complete self-