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    Fear and Other Uninvited Guests
    Fear and Other Uninvited Guests
    Fear and Other Uninvited Guests
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Fear and Other Uninvited Guests

    Written by Harriet Lerner

    Narrated by Harriet Lerner

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    About this audiobook

    Bestselling author Harriet Lerner is at her provocative best in this examination of fear as the key motivating force in our lives.

    Often unrecognised, fear and shame drive our choices and attitudes in ways that most of us never figure out. As Lerner explains, fear is not an amorphous unknown to be transcended or overcome but an emotion to be recognized, explored, decoded and embraced. Once we befriend fear, it can actually help us achieve calm, clarity and fundamental peace.

    Lerner teaches us the best ways to deal with fear: to expect, allow, and accept its presence in our lives, to mindfully observe and attend to how it feels in our bodies and, ultimately to own it. We can become experts on our personal triggers of anxiety, learning when fear signals real danger and when it's best to plough through it because it comes with the territory of making necessary changes. The very worst thing we can do in the face of fear is to run from it or try to avoid it. Fear is not something to be conquered or eliminated––or even tackled, for that matter. Instead, we need to pay close attention to the message it is trying to convey.

    Using her wonderfully rich and inviting therapeutic voice along with personal memories and examples drawn from her practice, Lerner gives fear its due. We needn't let anxiety, fear, and shame silence our authentic voice, close our hearts to the different voices of others, or stop us from acting with dignity, integrity and brio. We need to harness fear and put it in service to our best selves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 8, 2004
    ISBN9780060774172
    Fear and Other Uninvited Guests
    Author

    Harriet Lerner

    Harriet Lerner, PhD is one of our nation’s most loved and respected relationship experts. Renowned for her work on the psychology of women and family relationships, she served as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic for several decades. A distinguished lecturer, consultant, and psychotherapist, she is the author of numerous scholarly articles and popular books, including the New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger and Why Won’t You Apologize?. She and her husband live in Lawrence, Kansas and have two grown sons.

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      Instead of tackling problems like fear and anxiety I found that the speaker just told us about her problems she has faced but not telling us how to beat anxiety