An irreverent, interactive guided journal for anyone who wants to stop being miserable and get the hell on with living. Using the tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the journal includes 45 mental-health journal prompts and exercises you can complete with whatever the f*ck you accidentally bought the last time you were depressed in a craft store.
Ready to transform your life with the power of acceptance? You can try to find an available therapist for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or you can try this guided journal. Packed with prompts and exercises based in ACT and featuring a macrodose of attitude, this illustrated journal will help you accept the inevitable crappy parts of living with humor and perspective, so you can start enjoying the life you have.
Author and mental health influencer Christina Wolfgram walks readers through the four major steps from acceptance to commitment in a way that won’t make you barf:
Each prompt is designed to meld fun with therapeutic—from fill-in-the-blanks exercises to life lists—all with the author’s unique insights, observations, and trauma-induced sense of humor. Try it—what have you got to lose but your misery?
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"As a therapist, I love this journal! It is so easy to follow and so cute! The use of values and coping tools are practical and experiential. I share this with my clients as an adjunct to therapy since this journal is perfect for between sessions. I see my clients digging deeper, self-reflecting, and learning more about what matters to them. As a therapist who uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with clients, this journal is amazing for the way it reinforces making the choices that matter to us and teaches us how to use our values as our guide."
—Micheline Maalouf, LMHC, M.S., NCC
"If you're like me and you find most self-help literature either a little too Kindergarten Teacher Positive or a little too Clinical Therapist Detached, do your mental health the biggest favor and pick up a copy of F*cking Deal with It. The ultimate mental health journal for the modern depressive, you won't find coddling platitudes or patronizing lectures in here. Just actually helpful activities to get you through dark patches, with concise and often hilarious explanations that get you to the other side smiling.
Christina tackles the struggle with depression with a clear head despite teary eyes and infuses her book with the kind of blunt good humor everyone needs in their best friend. (Confession: I took this workbook and did the exercises in a separate notebook that I still refer to and add on to as needed. The memoir vs Lifetime movie exercise is my favorite.)"
—Jude Chao, a.k.a. @fiddysnails and author of Skincare for Your Soul: Achieving Outer Beauty and Inner Peace with Korean Skincare