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Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
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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.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780593656389
EAN:
9780593656389
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
336
Authors:
Martha Beck
Publisher:
Open Field
Published Date: 2025-07-01
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This book has helped me to open up and relax. Its help3d me grow and to be less anxious. I am grate full.
This book itself is like a library full of ways to be in this hectic anxiety producing world. I absolutely love it and plan to use it for my own anxiety and with my therapy clients. Thank you for this gem!
Did not like this book or the way she wrote! Rambled on about her life way too much so you get lost in the message she was conveying! Would not recommend!
Don’t care for the format, prompts and workbook-like style. Giving it to the library
I’ve read all of Martha’s books, and this one is my favorite. I’ve bookmarked, underlined, even practiced the exercises. I’ll be returning to this book regularly to remind myself of some of her pearls of wisdom. Thank you, Marty, for condensing so much of your wisdom into the written word.
