Read Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck

Recommended

Note: I listened to this book, and will be updating this post after taking notes from another format.

This was a good collection of wisdom for releasing anxiety.

In many ways, it was an “applied” version of Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary.

The gradual movement into the more woo-woo elements was well handled, and didn’t land in any dangerous territory.

My main concern was that with her valid concerns about WEIRD culture (“western”, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic), the proposals were still consumption-oriented and individualistic. We cannot live in a way where we all purchase an increasing number of services from one another, even if those services are creative and valuable to both parties. Some of our needs must be met in non-precarious ways, in community.