You wish you didn't spend as much time worrying as you do, but you just can't seem to help it. Worrying feels like second nature. Is it working? Or is it making you tense, tired, anxious, uncertain and more worried?

For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Robert L. Leahy has successfully helped thousands of people defeat the worry that is holding them back. The Worry Cure is his comprehensive approach to help you identify, challenge, and overcome all types of worry. This empowering seven-step program, includes practical, easy-to-follow advice and techniques:

• Determine your "worry profile" and change your patterns of worry
• Identify productive and unproductive worry
• Take control of time and eliminate the sense of urgency that keeps you anxious
• Focus on new opportunities not on your fear of failure
• Embrace uncertainty instead of searching for perfect solutions

Designed to address general worries as well as the unique issues surrounding some of the most common areas of worry—-relationships, health, money, work, and the need for approval. It's time to stop thinking you're "just a worrier" who can't change and start using the groundbreaking methods in The Worry Cure to achieve the healthier, more successful life you deserve.

Selected as one of the top 8 self-help books of all-time in Self Magazine Robert L. Leahy, Ph. D, is clinical professor in psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the editor and author of thirteen books. He is a founding fellow and the president-elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, the president of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City.

Mike Chamberlain , a resident of Los Angeles, has been seen on television and in feature-length films, and he has worked behind the microphone for the Los Angeles Radio Reading Service . Previously, he studied at Boston College's Theater Department, performing works ranging from the classics and Shakespeare, to contemporary comedy and drama.