How to Improve Your Confidence

by Kenneth Hambly

Published 12 November 1987
This self-help guide offers practical advice on how to reach your full potential for anyone who has experienced a lack of confidence - particularly for young people and those recovering from a psychiatric episode or crisis such as bereavement or divorce. While acknowledging that there is no short cut to achieving confidence, this book offers techniques and simple exercises that should aid confidence. Advice is given on how to relax and how to look objectively at your own behaviour and other people's, to help you change your attitude to problems and get the most out of life. Kenneth Hambly is the author of "Overcoming Tension".

This pocket companion book encourages the reader to handle their nerves and regain confidence. The book contains practical steps for handling situations such as social events, travelling, ceremonies, holidays and coping with fear of, for example, animals, people, and open spaces. The book explains why we get nervous, what happens in panic attacks, and what the symptoms of nervousness are. It includes exercises to learn to take positive control of stressful situations. Kenneth Hambly is the author of "Overcoming Tension" and "How to Improve Your Confidence".