Reddit reviews The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Here's a bunch of books that will help:

• Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook
  
  
• Anxiety & Worry Workbook
  
  
• CBT Workbook for Anxiety
  
  
• Anxiety & Phobia Workbook.
  
  If you really work through these books, you should make a lot of progress.
  
  I'd also encourage you to consider therapy. A good therapist would be able to help you tremendously with this issue.

It takes a lot of practice. I'm not very good at it yet but have gotten better.

What is happening is that you are associating your thoughts with your own sense of self and are likely judging them as bad. Instead, the idea is to let the thoughts flow, scary as they might be. Realize they are a separate entity from you and don't judge them in any way. They are neutral - just products of an organ in your head.

This book will help you cultivate this type of practice: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/162625334X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1464114696&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=act+anxiety&dpPl=1&dpID=51yi-VBi3VL&ref=plSrch

I know this isn't directly what you're asking about, but in case you aren't already using resources like this, they might support the efforts that you're already doing w/ getting out and biking. a lot of people don't realize that there are books addressing effective strategies out there to help with anxiety and things like agoraphobia that can be really helpful.

https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety-Commitment/dp/162625334X/

https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Your-Anxiety-Panic-Treatments/dp/0195311353/

I have found Acceptance and Commitment Therapy incredibly helpful (for many things, but especially this). Most health insurance covers counseling, which is appropriate for anyone who feels their life isn't working for them and wants to make changes. If you'd prefer the self-help route, here are some books: basic intro, anxiety-specific, and self-confidence specific.

I was just going to post this question! Thank you.

I am reading/completing The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety. You can buy it online, or my library had it. I like it because it has things to work on each week and a section where you can think/reflect on in each chapter.

I also tried Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety. This book is good at explaining how the brain works and why we feel anxious. It's helpful too in getting out of some of our anxious habits.

Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook by John Forsyth.

I think the worst part of it was the refusal to do talk therapy and stick to only what the book mandated. It was also a terrible book though.