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Is your insecure, apprehensive personality getting in your way of enjoying life? Making friends? Finding love? Landing that promotion? Get ready to get over yourself and pull the stick out of your ass that's been holding you back from being present in your life and realizing your dreams. In this lighthearted study of how to cope with anxiety disorder and stop being so damned uptight, Bruce shares the results of 20 years of research on anxiety disorders and depression and insight gleaned from working with the nation's top mental health experts as a former journalist and publicist. Flip through these pages and you'll find raw, humorous anecdotes paired with practical advice on the following subjects: Strategies for avoiding destructive behaviors like analysis paralysis, perfectionism, and egotism that firmly embed a giant stick up your ass. Techniques for loosening up, such as refraining from overplanning, getting over FOMO, increasing your tolerance, embracing your emotions, and overcoming social phobia. Support on how to get help if your emotional pain has become mental illness--and encouragement that doing so is a sign of strength, rather than weakness. With this edgy-bordering-on-profane take on breaking free from rigidity, Bruce will help you confront that little voice in your head questioning your actions and feeding you self-criticism. A hard knock at the stigma surrounding anxiety disorders, Pull the Stick out of Your @ss will leave you reeling in laughter and empowered to chuck conformity out the window and embrace your weird-ass self. Take a deep breath, get out your swear jar, and prepare to be mellowed out by this gritty approach to mindfulness. Former Journalist and Publicist, Bruce Serbin used to be a complete tightwad: quiet, nervous, preoccupied with the incessant negative chatter in his head, worried about what other people thought of him, constantly playing out different scenarios in his mind, trying to script out every interaction with people ahead of time. He experienced panic attacks, lived with severe anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suffered from hypochondria. Until one day, enough was enough. It was time to remove the stick from his ass and start living.

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For more than 15 years, seven-time national award-winning publicist and author Bruce Serbin has been a media powerhouse, booking his clients on local and national television and radio shows, in daily local and national newspapers and magazines, and in online news outlets. Bruce is the recipient of seven national awards and his work has been recognized by the Public Relations Society of America, Gold Coast Public Relations Council, League of American Communications Professionals and the Associated Press. Bruce started his career in the television newsroom of a top 15 media market working as a news assignment editor and television news producer writing anchor scripts for the evening news. He knows how to write and pitch a compelling news story that gets passed the newsroom gatekeeper because he was the newsroom gatekeeper, deciding which stories made it to air and which ones got cut. As a result, his clients have been featured in local and national media outlets including: NBC's Today, ABC's Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, the Associated Press, the BBC, Reuters, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, TIME and many more.

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