The Confidence Gap

'The book you are holding is going to help you see precisely where the gap lies between a lack of self-confidence and doing things that will work.'
Steven C. Hayes, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life Is a lack of confidence holding you back? We all know what it's like to get stuck in the 'confidence gap'. Whether it prevents us from embarking on new relationships, forging ahead in our career or pursuing other goals we hold dear, it can often stop us in our tracks. This book will help you to build your self-confidence and in so doing, pursue your dreams. Using scientifically proven Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques, Dr Russ Harris will help you to gain long-lasting confidence, identify your passions and create a life that is truly fulfilling. - Contains practical tools and strategies
- Clear and inspiring mindfulness-based approach
- Motivational techniques to tame your fear and escape the self-esteem trap RUSS HARRIS is a world-renowned trainer in ACT, a therapist and a coach, with a background in medicine as a general practitioner. He has run hundreds of workshops providing training for tens of thousands of health professionals, and he is the author of several bestsellling ACT-based textbooks and self-help books, including the million-copy bestseller The Happiness Trap.

Dr Russ Harris, M.B.B.S., is a physician and psychotherapist, working in private practice in Melbourne, Australia.
He was born in England in 1966, and graduated in medicine from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in 1989. He emigrated to Australia in 1991, where he began working as a GP. He became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, and this interest led to a career change - from medical practitioner to therapist.
Since 2005, Russ has provided training in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for over 80,000 health professionals around the globe. He has authored four ACT textbooks, and six ACT-based self-help books. His best-known book, The Happiness Trap, has sold over one million copies worldwide, with translations into over thirty languages. In 2015 Russ created an ACT protocol for the WHO (World Health Organization), for use in refugee camps. The WHO have now researched and published three trials based on this protocol, showing that it not only significantly reduces depression and PTSD but also prevents the onset of mental health disorders in those at high risk. Russ also wrote and designed a cartoon-based book for the WHO (based on ACT) called Doing What Matters In Times of Stress - and this is now the most commonly downloaded mental health resource on the WHO website.