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Beyond Anxiety

Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

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Beyond Anxiety

By: Martha Beck
Narrated by: Martha Beck, Maria Shriver
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From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within

We live in an epidemic 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 that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of.

In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety 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, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an “anxiety spiral,” a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system—the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the “creativity spiral,” in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and 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 as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.

©2025 Martha Beck (P)2025 Penguin Audio
Anxiety Disorders Mental Health Personal Development Psychology & Mental Health
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“Martha Beck has changed my life with her words, her teachings, and her guidance. She is always ahead of the curve. This book will help you get curious about anxiety and tap into your divine creativity. Get ready to be transformed.”—Maria Shriver

“In this book, Martha has tackled a subject that is the true virus of our time: ANXIETY. And with her characteristic humor, brilliance, detective-level research-skills and unconventional thinking, she has discovered actual real-life solutions to this dreaded mental scourge. In doing so, she has once again brought light, hope, and a welcome sense of excitement to us all.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and City of Girls

“I’m an anxious bunny. I opened this book hopeful but certain it wouldn’t work. It worked. It freaking worked. The gold on these pages gave me some life back. Thank you, thank you, Martha Beck. You did it again!”—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

Insightful Wisdom • Practical Guidance • Engaging Storytelling • Profound Insights • Inspiring Perspective
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This book has helped me understand not only anxiety, but myself, as a ‘creative’ and entrepreneur that feels constant tension in my life. It’s helped me make sense of so much that I didn’t understand about myself and has not only given me hope but EXCITEMENT that I overcome it, finally. This book is a masterpiece and we are so lucky that Dr. Beck poured herself into writing it!

A public service for humanity!

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I listened to the audio version and found it flowed well had interesting insights and was uplifting. I’m familiar with her book on integrity and this did not disappoint just as that one didn’t.

Inspiring and hopeful

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Love all her work. This did not disappoint. She manages to explain and make it clear

Beyond Anxiety

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It was like having a friend lead me back home to "a me without anxiety."

Coming back home, to me.

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Chock full of actionable tools to manage and improve your thought processes, mood, and outcomes in day to day life!
So wish this was available when I was in 20's. it's never to late to find, and enjoy your true life purpose!

instant relief from anxiety and guide to joy

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Martha Beck gives those of us who are gripped with anxiety a way forward. It is a book for all humans who are caught up in despair, paralysis, low-creativity due to living in a world that truly isn’t whole and humane.

A must read for this time in our world.

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Martha Beck has such a special and unique way of thinking and communicating. My mind is always hugely expanded when listening to her take on life. Many useful, humorous tools and suggestions on how to view, and transform anxiety. Thank you Martha.

Like nothing you've listened to before

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I loved Martha’s sharing her story and the infinite possibilities that await us all no matter where we are at now in our life’s journey. I will purchase the book to read the exercises and enjoy this information in another way of learning.

Possibilities

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An incredibly fluid and non-dogmatic approach to working with anxiety in order to access the creative energy that is always available when we remember how to come home to Self!

A playful and profound wake up call

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A good summary of her previous work with some spirituality thrown in at the end .

Martha always delivers

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