Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity withinWe 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 sh