Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion

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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.

Karla McLaren, M.Ed., is an award-winning author, social science researcher, educator, and founder/creator of an empathic and emotion-honoring approach to emotions called Dynamic Emotional Integration (R), She has taught at the University of San Francisco, Omega, Naropa University, Kripalu, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Karla lives in California with her husband, Tino Plank.

"Embracing Anxiety is a kind and empathetic, practical and reality-based approach to managing emotions, useful for anyone and everyone." --Mark Bertin, MD, author of How Children Thrive "Karla McLaren's breakthrough approach provides the missing link for those who want to finally get off the merry-go-round of anxiety, shame, and self-judgment. Embracing Anxiety has become a permanent fixture in my toolbox." --Dr. Samantha Brody, author of Overcoming Overwhelm