Book excerpt: An easy-to-use guide for people experiencing anxiety or crisis. The book is broken into chapters that take up key ways to reduce stress and increase calm. Chapter titles include: Ways to Connect with Others Move Your Body, Managing Time, Reduce fearful Thinking, Breathing, Self-Expression, Ethical Choices, and Long Term Change. Each Chapter gives a brief rationale, followed by a list of suggestions for ways to calm anxiety. A more detailed exercise is also included with each chapter. Readers can use this book to create accessible lists of techniques to draw upon as needed. Techniques for both short term symptom relief, and long term sustained change are included.