Published in 2023
320 pages
9 hrs and 37 mins
Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, is the author of a number of deeply thoughtful, accessible and genuinely life-changing books. They include Choosing Happiness:Life and Soul Essentials, Everyday Kindness, Intimacy and Solitude, Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love and Seeking the Sacred, described by critic Claire Scobie as a “chalice of wisdom”. She is also a leading Rilke scholar and her book on reading Rainer Maria Rilke (and understanding reading and spiritual seeking more generally), In the Company of Rilke, has been highly praised by critics and welcomed by a wide range of readers. Stephanie Dowrick has been writing for more than two decades and prior to that worked in publishing for some years, including her time as founder and first Managing Director of the prestigious independent London publishers, The Women’s Press. Born in New Zealand, and having lived in a number of countries including the UK and Germany, she has lived in Australia since 1983 and regards herself as a global citizen. This makes her ideally placed to consider some of the most urgent social and personal issues facing us at this time. Stephanie Dowrick blogs regularly, keeps an active public Facebook page, teaches widely on a variety of ethical and psychological issues, leads spiritual and writing retreats, and also leads a large spiritually inclusive community.
What is this book about?
Anxiety is restricting millions of lives. Award-winning writer, Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, shows how new mind-body insights and research can emphatically restore the inner security that anxiety takes away.
Restoring the wellbeing that anxiety takes away
Of all the possible blows to your emotional health, anxiety is the most treatable. In this intimate, exciting book, best-selling author Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, challenges the way anxiety is usually thought about. Writing from her personal as well as professional experience, she emphasizes the profound relationships between your mind and body–plus you and the world you live in. She makes life-giving change possible.
There are many strong ideas here to make your own, including proven emergency strategies for the hardest times, making way for clearer thought–and lasting self-care.
Using her powerful gifts of story and memoir, plus the latest mind-body research on stress as well as anxiety, Stephanie Dowrick speaks up for a new understanding of personal power. Anxiety may be limiting your life. But it is never the whole ‘you’. It need never define you.
