From bestselling author life coach and sociologist Martha Beck comes a new path to overcoming
anxiety by awakening the creativity within. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming
anxiety is to think our way out of it. And for a while it works. Meditation and mental
exercises offer us relief but there is always something - a work deadline a family emergency
a particularly distressing newsbreak - that disrupts our sense of peace and sends us right back
inside the same anxious spiral we've been trying to climb out of. Is there a way to reduce our
anxiety not just in the moment but in every moment after that? After a lifetime of
struggling with anxiety Martha Beck studied just about everything there was to know about how
to calm down. What she realised is that the analytical part of our brain - so valued in Western
culture - is the same structure responsible for amping up anxiety. In other words we cannot
logic our way to relief. In Beyond Anxiety she reveals that to find calm we must activate an
entirely different part of our brain one responsible for curiosity wonder and most of all
creativity. Drawing on social science Eastern wisdom and the latest research in neuroscience
and psychology Beck shows how to move from anxiety into purpose through the power of
creativity. Using techniques tested first-hand on hundreds of clients she teaches us how to
activate the creativity spiral by approaching problems with a sense of curiosity making
pleasure a priority and inviting play and spontaneity into our every day. Anxiety does not
have to keep us from finding our life's purpose. Beyond Anxiety invites us into a new way of
being one filled with greater abundance joy and possibility.
