An in-depth guide for engaging with anxiety-not as an affliction, but as an essential source of foresight, intuition, and energy for completing your tasks and projects. If you're facing anxiety, you've probably got one thing on your mind-how to make it go away. But what if this challenging emotion were actually trying to help? "When we ignore or repress our anxiety," teaches Karla McLaren, "it can overwhelm us. But when we learn to welcome it with skill, we can access its remarkable gifts." Engaged with wisely, anxiety is your task completion ally-it helps you to focus, plan, take action, and fulfill your goals. With Embracing Anxiety, you'll join this acclaimed educator and researcher to explore: * Principles and practices to befriend your anxiety at every level of intensity (before it overwhelms you) * Strategies to engage with anxiety as a resource for foresight, conscientiousness, and motivation * Why fear, panic, worry, and anxiety are not the same, and tools to work with each effectively * How anxiety blends with anger, sadness, and other emotions, and how to clarify these compounded states * Using McLaren's Conscious Questioning practice to engage with anxiety and garner its insights * How to embrace procrastination and still get things done "When you identify, listen to, and act on anxiety skillfully, you support its purpose," teaches McLaren, "and allow it to recede naturally until it is needed again." With Embracing Anxiety, you'll learn how to get this powerful emotion on your side.

An in-depth guide for engaging with anxiety - not as an affliction, but as an essential source of foresight, intuition, and energy for completing your tasks and projects

About the Author
Karla McLaren Empath Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions has taken her through the healing of her own childhood trauma, into a healing career, and now into the study of sociology, anthropology, neurology, cognitive psychology, and education. She is the author of The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (Sounds True, 2010), the online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (Sounds True, 2012) and The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (October, 2013). Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, Omega Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, as a prison arts educator with the William James Foundation, she has utilized singing, drumming, and drama to help men in maximum security prisons explore and heal long-held emotional traumas. She is currently developing new forms of Empathy and Social Interaction curricula for neurologically diverse populations. Karla lives in California with her husband, Tino Plank, a Master's level nurse educator who works in hospice and end-of-life care.


Book Information
ISBN 9781683644415
Author Karla McLaren
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Sounds True Inc
Publisher Sounds True Inc
Weight(grams) 254g
Dimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm * 20mm