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Beyond anxiety : curiosity, creativity, and finding your life's purpose  Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

Beyond anxiety : curiosity, creativity, and finding your life's purpose / Martha Beck.

Summary:
"We live in an age 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 -- a distressing newsbreak, a family emergency, an irritating email -- that sends us right back into the anxious cycle we've been trying to escape. Is there a way to reduce our anxiety in the moment, and in every moment after that? The answer, says Martha Beck, lies in our brain's natural capacity for creativity. In Beyond Anxiety, Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you and within you, showing how you can not only reduce worry, 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, she explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an "anxiety spiral," a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To free ourselves, we must engage different parts of our nervous system -- the parts involved in creativity. Offering instructions for engaging the "creativity spiral," Beck walks you through a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovating problem-solving, a sense of purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others and with the world. The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life -- one that can calm and inspire us, and help us to engage more deeply and authentically with everything around us." -- Provided by book's back.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593949085
  • ISBN: 0593949080
  • Physical Description: xxxi, 456 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, 2025.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- PART ONE, THE CREATURE -- The Nuts and Bolts of Why You Go Nuts and Want to Bolt -- Anxious Creatures in an Anxious Culture -- When Anxiety Creatures Get Stuck -- The Creature, United -- PART TWO, THE CREATIVE -- Activating Your Creative Side -- Curiosity: The Secret Doorway -- Making Your Sanity Quilt of a Life -- Mastery: Freeing the Magician -- PART THREE, THE CREATION -- Breaking Your Role Rules, Minding Your Mission -- Constellating an Ecosystem -- Don't-Know Mind -- Deep Green Self, Deep Green Earth -- Acknowledgments.
Subject: Large type books.
Anxiety.
Success.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Creative ability.
Conduct of life.
Genre: Large print books.

Available copies

  • 0 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Bethlehem Main Library 152.46 (Text) 33062009972176 New Large Print Nonfiction Checked Out 03/07/2025


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