Embracing Anxiety

How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion
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Anxiety is an essential emotion that gives us the vigilance, foresight, and drive to get things done and fulfill our goals. Here, you'll learn how to distinguish anxiety from fear and other emotions, build a healthy relationship with it, and use it as a wise ally in every area of your life.
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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 source of foresight, conscientiousness, and motivation
  • Why fear, confusion, and panic are not the same as anxiety, and tools to work with each effectively
  • How anxiety blends with anger, depression, 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 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.
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Contents Paperback Book (264 pages) eBook (264 pages)
Dimensions 5 1/4 x 8 Inches
Product Code BK05890 BK05890W
ISBN Number 978-1-68364-441-5 978-1-68364-442-2
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Karla McLaren

About Karla McLaren

Karla McLaren, M.Ed., is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy innovator. She is CEO of Emotion Dynamics, developer of Dynamic Emotional Integration®, and creator of EmpathyAcademy.org. Karla is the author of Embracing AnxietyThe Dynamic Emotional Integration WorkbookThe Art of EmpathyThe Power of Emotions at Work, and the multimedia online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions. For more, visit karlamclaren.com.

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