ACT for Your Best Life

54 Simple and Powerful Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Practices for Navigating Stress, Anxiety & Burnout

book by Dr. Aprilia West PsyD MT PCC

About The Book

Navigate life’s ups and downs with flexibility & resilience

Based on psychological flexibility processes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), the ACT For Your Best Life card deck offers 54 powerful prompts and practices to help you navigate life’s ups and downs with flexibility and resilience.

The construct of psychological flexibility is rooted in psychological science, originating in a therapeutic model called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and has been recognized as a critical factor for enhancing both flourishing and high performance.

With this deck you can learn to:

  • Anchor yourself in the power of the present moment

  • Sit with uncomfortable or unwanted emotions

  • Unhook from unhelpful thoughts and limiting stories

  • Step back as an observer and find perspective

  • Clarify what matters most in pivotal moments

  • Show up as your best self in any situation

Psychological flexibility has been shown to improve wellbeing and performance in over 1000 research trials. Being psychologically flexible happens we people have developed the mindfulness, mental agility, and meaningful moves to skillfully navigate their lives, even in the face of stress, challenge and pain. 

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A fabulous way to regularly practice living well and living with meaning.

The ACT For Your Best Life card deck is a fabulous way to regularly practice living well and living with meaning. With annotations and exercises, each card supplies the opportunity to tune into life and values, bringing awareness to experience and presence to what it means to be alive…and connected. I look forward to offering this deck to clients, friends, and family. I hope everyone finds the same benefit in these practical and easy-to-implement suggestions that I do.

Thanks, Dr. West, for creating these beautiful and life-promoting cards. What a gift!

Robyn D. Walser, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and author of "Heart of ACT"

A wonderful tool that makes ACT come alive!

As a therapist I can imagine using the ACT for your Best Life Card Deck in multiple ways: drawing a card in session and discussing what it might be like to live with that quality or asking clients to take a card for home practice. Or, as self-guided practice you could choose a card randomly on the spot or with intention. Lots of wonderful ways to snapshot ACT processes and make them come alive— in session, at home or on your own. The deck is also a great learning asset for practitioners.

Louise Hayes, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and co-author of "What Makes You Stronger"

I highly recommend this tool by Dr. Aprilia West! 

The ACT For Your Best Life cards have clear and novel prompts to help people pause, get curious, and show up to what matters most to them.

Amy R. Murrell, PhD, Licensed Psychologist and author of "The Becca Epps Series"

Creative and interactive to work with clients in a fun, playful manner.

ACT for Your Best Life is a creative and interactive deck that can function in many capacities to teach clients the key elements of acceptance and commitment therapy in a fun, playful manner.

Janina Scarlett, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and author of "Superhero Therapy Psychologist"

Highly recommended!

The ACT For Your Best Life card deck is like having an ACT therapist or coach in your back pocket. This is a great resource for anyone who wants to tap into their full potential by increasing their psychological flexibility.

Rob Archer, PhD, Executive Coach & Consultant, Director at Cognacity, and Founder of The Career Psychologist

Powerful tools for helping clients increase psychological flexibility.

The ACT For Your Best Life Card Deck contains 54 prompts that can deepen coaching conversations and help clients increase their psychologically flexibility. The cards can also be used outside of session as reflections, journaling opportunities or practice challenges. Dr. Aprilia West has done a great job of distilling ACT concepts into these beautiful cards.

Rachel Collis, Executive Coach, Sessional Academic, Graduate School of Business at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and author of "Applying ACT to Workplace Coaching"

Psychological flexibility made accessible and affordable for everyone.

With the ACT For Your Best Life card deck, Dr. Aprilia West has made the processes that lead to psychological flexibility accessible and affordable for everyone. She has transformed the core tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into simple, easy to implement practices that also inspire powerful and lasting change. Whether you’re a therapist or coach who wants to incorporate ACT practices into your client work, or you’re someone who seeks deeper meaning and purpose in life, the ACT for Your Best Life card deck is a must-have resource. 

Lee Chaix McDonough, MSW, MSPH, PCC, BCC, Founder, Coach with Clarity and author of "ACT On Your Business"

Transformative tools for increasing psychological flexibility.

Dr. West's ACT For Your Best Life cards offer transformative evidence-based tools for increasing psychological flexibility. Using brief classic and novel ACT practices, these cards will help you bring curiosity and compassion to internal experiences while clarifying and aligning your values and actions.  I will be using this deck in my therapy practice and recommending them to any clients who want to do their own self-guided work.

Stephanie Catella, PsyD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Digital Healthcare Consultant

Dr. Aprilia West PsyD MT PCC - psychologist, executive leadership and team coach, trainer and organizational consultant

About Dr. Aprilia West

Dr. Aprilia West is a psychologist, executive coach, trainer, author, advocacy campaign strategist, and digital health consultant.  She has 20+ years of experience working with founders, leaders, creatives, teams, and organizations spanning U.S. Congress, tech, entertainment, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofit advocacy campaigns.

Her extensive experience as a psychologist, executive coach, trainer, author, advocacy campaign strategist, and digital health consultant give her a niche understanding of human behavior and how to facilitate wellbeing, peak performance, and prosocial behavior change.

Dr. West's interest in human behavior and choice-making led her to study emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility, resilience and positive psychology. She went on to develop the construct of emotion efficacy— the ability and belief your ability to harness emotional experience, shift your mindset and take action aligned with your values. She explains, “emotion efficacy is what you’d get if emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience had a love child.”Dr. West designed the Emotion Efficacy Therapy protocol as part of her doctoral studies, as well as the related assessment, the Emotion Efficacy Scale-2 (EES2). She has since developed and expanded the emotion efficacy tools and trainings, including authoring the self-help book, What You Feel Is Not All There Is. She is also co-author of the clinician's guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy.

Dr. West is known internationally as an expert in the application of behavioral science and conducts professional trainings for coaches and clinicians around the world.

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