From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within.
We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of.
In Beyond Anxiety, Dr Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
Using a combination of the latest neuroscience as well as her background in sociology and coaching, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an ‘anxiety spiral,’ a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system – the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the ‘creativity spiral,’ in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others – and with the world.
The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life – one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.
We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of.
In Beyond Anxiety, Dr Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
Using a combination of the latest neuroscience as well as her background in sociology and coaching, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an ‘anxiety spiral,’ a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system – the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the ‘creativity spiral,’ in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others – and with the world.
The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life – one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.
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Martha Beck has changed my life . . . Get ready to be transformed.
Beyond Anxiety is our era's timeliest book . . . These pages contain essential knowledge and innovative tools for anyone who hopes to thrive-and not merely survive-in an age of intensity.
I'm an anxious bunny. I opened this book hopeful but certain it wouldn't work. It worked. It freaking worked. The gold on these pages gave me some life back. Thank you, thank you, Martha Beck. You did it again!
A breakthrough book on understanding the profound connection between anxiety and the innate untapped creativity and purpose that beckons us all deep from within. A must read for your mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
Martha has tackled a subject that is the true virus of our time: ANXIETY. And with her characteristic humor, brilliance, detective-level research skills, and unconventional thinking, she has discovered actual real-life solutions to this dreaded mental scourge. In doing so, she has once again brought light, hope, and a welcome sense of excitement to us all.
I'm a long time fan of Martha's work. Few if any people are able to bridge abstract concepts into practical steps and combine so many different approaches-somatic, narrative, etc.-toward deep self-understanding and building one's best life from that understanding. Martha has a true gift in being able to do so and to make it so clear and actionable...I read [the book] and it's spectacular.
With her signature blend of science, compassion, and humour, Martha Beck upends every-
thing we thought we knew about anxiety and how to overcome it . . . I love this book!
Beck never lectures, never talks down, and doesn't spread doom and fear. Instead, she helps us engage with different parts of our nervous system where our own curiosity and creativity offer a pathway beyond anxiety.
Beck provides exercises to practice a multilayered approach that led her to change how she related to both her inner and her outer worlds . . . I'm so grateful to Martha for showing us the way toward more courageous and connected lives.
Beck teaches us a crucial lesson about our negative emotions: the goal isn't to eradicate them, but to understand, learn, and grow from them. This shift can change your life.