Having completed this book I feel like a different person. I cannot believe how happy and calm I am as a person now. After years and years of CBT and Therapy for anxiety I started the Thrive programme because it sounded like a different and much more practical and proactive approach. It is to the point, it deals with the present (rather than spending pointless hours going through childhood memories), it tackles your thinking patterns and allows you to take control.
Although I had started Thrive specifically to target Shy Bladder, after completing the book my self esteem and confidence had increased enormously. It made me realise that all my specific anxieties (e.g. shy bladder) were a result of my low self esteem and social anxiety. In other words, I was creating my own problems. This alone was a fantastic realisation as it gave me the control - if I am creating the problems, I can also stop them. This was the liberating moment for me, to realise that anxiety wasn't something bad that was 'happening' to me, it was in fact just me, creating all this stress by the way I thought. This program will help you overcome a specific phobia but it will also give you so much more. It is easy to follow, although I would recommend working through it with a Thrive practitioner as I did, and if you put in the work, the results can be quick.
There are so many self help books out there that you can start to feel that nothing will work. I have tried others before and had very limited results. But Thrive is different, once I'd understood the concept and ideas of this program it was a light-bulb moment - my path to getting rid of the anxiety was suddenly very clear and very simple. I just wish I'd found Thrive sooner!