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Psychology

BEYOND ANXIETY

Martha Beck

Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose

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 othersand 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. Martha Beck, PhD, is a Harvard-trained sociologist, New York Times bestselling author, world-renowned life coach, and speaker. She is the author of one novel and nine nonfiction books, including the Oprah's Book Club pick The Way of Integrity.

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Book Published 2025-01-07 by The Open Field

Comments

In her new book, Martha 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.

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.

In this book, 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.

In this fascinating book, Beck provides exercises to practice a multi-layered approach that led her to change how she related to both her inner and outer worlds. We can comfort, nurture, and understand our anxiety, which allows it to relax and give access to other wonderful parts it has covered. I'm so grateful to Martha for showing us the way toward more courageous and connected lives.

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.

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!

Martha Beck has changed my life with her words, her teachings, and her guidance. She is always ahead of the curve. This book will help you get curious about anxiety and tap into your divine creativity. Get ready to be transformed.

I'm a longtime fan of Martha's work. Few if any people are able to bridge abstract concepts into practical steps and combine so many different approachessomatic, 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.

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With her signature blend of science, compassion, and humor, Martha Beck upends everything we thought we knew about anxiety and how to overcome it. She shows us how to lean into our own natural capacity for creativity and tap into greater happiness. I love this book!