Patricia E. Zurita Ona, Psy.D., "Dr. Z.," is a psychologist specialized in working with and creating compassionate, research-based, and actionable resources for overachievers and overthinkers to get them unstuck from worries, fears, anxieties, perfectionism, procrastination, obsessions, and ineffective playing-it-safe actions.

Dr. Z. is the founder of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center, a boutique practice, where she offers therapy and coaching services based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and contextual behavioral science. Dr. Z. has been nominated a Fellow of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science because of her contributions to the applications of ACT to specific fear-based struggles. Dr Z gave a TEDX talk titled 'Stop Playing-It-Safe and Start Living' at Gunn High School in 2023: [...]

SECTION I What's Wrong With Caring Deeply?

1 Why Bother With This Book?

2 Doing Things Perfectly Makes Sense!

3 Others Are Wrong, You're Right

4 Flipping the Coin

5 All Types of High-Achieving Actions

SECTION II Unpacking Your Personal History

6 How Come You Care So Much?

7 The Many Shades of Fear

8 Mistakes, Errors, Flaws

9 A Special Type of Fear

10 Mental Rubrics

11 Personal Narratives

SECTION III Harnessing the Power of High-Achieving and Perfectionistic Actions

12 The Future of Caring Behaviors

13 What Are Your Precious Values?

14 Does It Really Matter?

15 Important Questions, Important Answers

16 One Year From Now

17 "Doing Things Right" Is the Right Thing to Do, at Times

18 What Game Are You Playing?

SECTION IV The Workability Game

19 Learning About It

20 Playing It

21 Committing to It

SECTION V Pause and Play

22 The Great Escape

23 Fleeting Feelings

24 Seizing and Freezing

25 Overly Protective Friends

26 To Buy or Not to Buy?

27 Hold Them Lightly, Really!

28 99 Percent

29 This-Or-That Thoughts

30 Minding and Unwinding

31 Mini-Me Stories

32 Terrible Feelings

33 Pleased to Meet You!

34 Plus and Minus

35 Don't Go Down the Rabbit Hole!

36 Daring to Be Kind!

37 Vulnerabilities or Liabilities?

38 Less Chasing, More Choosing

39 When-Then Thoughts

40 Tough Choices Need Kindness

SECTION VI Onward and Upward!

41 Messy Moments

42 Living With Not Knowing

43 Undoing Decidophobia

44 Tackling Procrastination

45 Tough Love!

46 Let's Move

47 To Quit or Not to Quit

48 Finding Your Rhythm

49 Little Tidbits

50 Sweet Contradictions

51 Sugarcoating Moments

52 O-VER-RE-SPON-SI-BIL-I-TY

53 Doing Less, Living More