First, we make the beast beautiful : a kinder conversation about anxiety

Title:

Summary:

Having helped over 1.5m people across the world to quit sugar, Sarah Wilson now turns her focus and fierce investigatory skills onto the lifetime companion that's brought her the most pain and become her finest teacher. Anxiety. Looking at the triggers and treatments, fashions and fads, she reads widely, interviewing fellow sufferers, mental health patients, philosophers, and even the Dalai Lama, processing all she learns through the prism of her own experience. She pulls at the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, unravelling the notion that it is a disease that must be medicated into submission. Could anxiety be re-sewn, she asks, into a thing of beauty? There are many books about coping with anxiety. This one encourages the many sufferers of the world's most common mental illness to thrive with anxiety, and even to delight in the possibilities it offers for a richer, fuller life.

Author:

Wilson, Sarah, 1974- author.

ISBN:

9780552175029

Personal Author:

Wilson, Sarah, 1974- author.

Publication Information:

London : Corgi Books, 2019.

Physical Description:

311 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published: London: Bantam, 2018.

Personal Subject:

Wilson, Sarah, 1974-

Wilson, Sarah, 1974--Mental health.

Subject Term:

Anxiety.

Anxiety disorders.

Psychology.

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'I loved this book.' MATT HAIG
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If you have anxiety, this book is for you .

If you love someone who is anxious, this book is for you .

I Quit Sugar founder and New York Ti mes bestselling author Sarah Wilson has lived through high anxiety - including bipolar, OCD and several suicide attempts - her whole life. Perhaps like you, she grew tired of seeing anxiety as a disease that must be medicated into submission. Could anxiety be re-sewn, she asked, into a thing of beauty?

So began a seven-year journey to find a more meaningful and helpful take on anxiety. Living out of two suitcases, Sarah travelled the world, meeting with His Holiness The Dalai Lama, with Oprah's life coach, with major mental health organizations and hundreds of others in a quest to unravel the knotted ball of wool that is the anxious condition. She emerged with the very best philosophy, science and hacks for thriving with the beast.

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful is a book with a big heart, paving the way for richer, kinder and wiser conversations about anxiety.
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'Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read.' MARK MANSON, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck