How To Cast Your Care: A Biblical Approach to Chronic Anxiety and OCD by Caroline L Kent

How to Cast Your Care is a biblically grounded guide for Christians struggling with chronic anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and obsessive–compulsive patterns of fear. Written from a Reformed Protestant perspective, this book addresses the unique distress experienced by believers whose anxious thoughts become tangled with guilt, assurance, and fear of sin.

Drawing carefully from Scripture, historic Reformed theology, and pastoral counselling experience, Caroline L Kent helps readers distinguish between temptation and consent, intrusive thoughts and moral failure, spiritual warfare and mental affliction. Rather than encouraging endless self-analysis or shallow reassurance, the book calls anxious believers to rest more fully in Christ’s finished work while learning disciplined, biblically faithful responses to fear and obsessive thinking.

Structured for clarity and gentle progression, the book moves from foundational teaching on the mind, conscience, and assurance, into practical instruction on how to “stand” in Christ and “cast” anxious thoughts without engaging in rumination or compulsive behaviours. A guided 60-day recovery programme provides daily Scripture readings, reflections, and exercises designed to help readers apply gospel truth in the midst of anxiety, rather than waiting for anxiety to disappear.

This book is not a quick fix, nor a replacement for medical care where needed. It is a pastoral companion for believers who feel exhausted by their minds, misunderstood in church contexts, or spiritually shaken by thoughts they do not want and cannot control. Rooted in Scripture and shaped by compassion, How to Cast Your Care offers a path toward steadier faith, renewed thinking, and deeper confidence in the sufficiency of Christ.