{"id":816837,"date":"2026-06-01T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=816837"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:46:02","slug":"european-bestseller-on-social-anxiety-and-the-failure-of-selfhelp-comes-to-us-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/european-bestseller-on-social-anxiety-and-the-failure-of-selfhelp-comes-to-us-readers_816837.html","title":{"rendered":"European Bestseller on Social Anxiety and the Failure of Self-Help Comes to US Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timoteo Crnkovi\u0107\u2019s \u201cStop Fixing Yourself\u201d sold out before printing in Croatia and will launch on Amazon in September 2026.<\/div>\n

A book that has quietly reshaped how Croatian readers think about social anxiety and personal growth is preparing for its English-language release. Stop Fixing Yourself<\/em> by hypnotherapist Timoteo Crnkovi\u0107 will launch on Amazon in September 2026, following a sold-out presale in its original market and ongoing distribution through major bookstore chains.<\/p>\n

The book’s argument runs against the grain of the global self-help industry. Crnkovi\u0107 maintains that years of reading, journaling, and inner work most often leave people more familiar with their problems rather than free of them. The industry has taught people to observe what is wrong with them. The job of stepping out of it has been left to someone else.<\/p>\n

Among the conditions the book examines closely is social anxiety, which Crnkovi\u0107 treats regularly in his Zagreb practice. He writes about why the conventional advice given to socially anxious people, such as exposure exercises, affirmations, and reframing techniques, often reinforces the very state it tries to remove. Many of the same patterns are also seen in people struggling with panic attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“People come to me after years of working on themselves. They’ve read everything, they recognize every pattern in themselves, and they are still in the exact same place. The industry taught them how to observe the problem. Stepping out of it is a different job”, says Crnkovi\u0107.<\/em><\/p>\n

The English-language edition has been developed with editor Zacharie Wright, who called it the best self-help book without tools that he had read. The original Croatian edition has fifteen chapters and is currently distributed through Superknji\u017eara, Znanje, and Planetopija.<\/p>\n

Crnkovi\u0107 is one of the few European hypnotherapists trained directly within the lineage of Milton H. Erickson through Dr. Rob McNeilly and Dr. Jeffrey Zeig. He has practiced advanced Ericksonian hypnotherapy in Zagreb for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Timoteo Crnkovi\u0107 is a Zagreb-based Ericksonian hypnotherapist and founder of the Rapid Mental Reset™ program. Stop Fixing Yourself<\/em> is his first book translated into English.<\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/span>
Company Name:<\/strong> Mental Reset d.o.o.<\/a>
Email:<\/strong> Send Email<\/a>
Address:<\/strong>Daruvarska ul. 43
City:<\/strong> 43000 \u017ddralovi
Country:<\/strong> Croatia
Website:<\/strong> prestaniraditinasebi.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Timoteo Crnkovi\u0107\u2019s \u201cStop Fixing Yourself\u201d sold out before printing in Croatia and will launch on Amazon in September 2026. A book that has quietly reshaped how Croatian readers think about social anxiety and personal growth is preparing for its English-language … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Books-Literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}