The Gift of Anxiety: Turning Your Inner Chaos Into Everyday Superpowers

Step 1: Control your anxiety. Step 2: Conquer the world.

Anxious people have always been treated as weak, despite fighting their inner demons on the daily. It’s time for a shift in perspective, one that gives props to the millions of ＂worry warriors＂ out there. THE GIFT OF ANXIETY encourages today’s reader to embrace and own their stress while highlighting the benefits of being in tune with their feelings and fears. Studies confirm that anxious people are more in touch with their emotions, proficient in following their instincts, and ready for anything--thanks to a lifetime of inner struggle.

With prompts that leverage the healthy aspects of anxiety and take away all the shame, THE GIFT OF ANXIETY takes a fresh approach to a popular self-help topic. Designed for consumers who are done feeling bad about themselves, this supportive journal offers empowering self-reflection, techniques for using anxiety as an advantage, and a sense of pride in who we are and who we can become as individuals, anxiety and all.

A.H. Benjamin delivers a bold new adventure--an alien elf and his robot dog Therese Walsh has a master’s degree in psychology and is a critically acclaimed novelist of psychological fiction (The Moon Sisters, The Last Will of Moira Leahy). She started as a researcher/writer for Prevention Magazine, and later cofounded Writer Unboxed, a site that provides empowering content for authors-in-progress. She lives in New York with her husband and their Jack Russell, Kismet.