Embracing Fear
How to Turn What Scares Us into Our Greatest Gift
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 2009
224 pages
978-0-06-174153-1 (ISBN)
Description
Its Time to Take Back Your Life Fear takes many forms dread panic anxiety selfconsciousness superstition and negativity and manifests itself in many ways avoidance procrastination judgment control and agitation to name just a few. Whether we are afraid of the dark or being alone of failure or commitment of public speaking or flying fear dominates our lives affecting nearly every decision we make. Combining compelling stories from the authors twentyfiveyear practice examples from his own struggles with addiction and depression and practical exercises and tools Embracing Fear does not pretend to teach the impossible and eliminate fear but rather shows us that once we understand it we can live beyond its tyrannical control. Instead of repressing or ignoring the voices of panic and dread we learn that it is only through facing exploring accepting and responding to fear that we free ourselves from its paralyzing grip.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- CHAPTER ONE: Don't Run, Don't Hide
- CHAPTER TWO: Stepping Up
- CHAPTER THREE: Walking Kirby to Class
- CHAPTER FOUR: Making a Run for It
- CHAPTER FIVE: Why Me? Why Not Me?
- CHAPTER SIX: Encore, Encore
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Unique Just Like Everyone Else
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Up Against the Wall
- CHAPTER NINE: The Push
- CHAPTER TEN: Signing Up
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Beyond the Wall
- Thom's Nutshells
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
