Tools for Finding Peace in an Anxious World

with Martha Beck, PhD

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Martha’s Newest Course

Anxiety may be a part of the world we live in, but did you know anxiety is a cycle you can break?

In this brand-new six-week course, The Art of Calm: Tools for Finding Peace in an Anxious World, Martha will teach you how!

Learn new tools to stop the mental spin of anxiety, calm others as well as yourself, and use curiosity to transform fear into inspiration.

Registration is now open! 

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The Art of Calm: Why you’re so anxious . . .

Are you feeling a bit anxious? Maybe a lot anxious? Yeah, me too.
We’re hardly alone: there are more anxious people walking the earth right now than ever before.

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The Art of Calm: Meet Your Creature

I used to be stuck in a life-coaching paradox: Many of my most articulate clients seemed unable to understand anything I said to them.

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The Art of Calm: Calming Your Creature

I’d like to offer you an invitation: for the next few minutes—maybe the time it takes you to read this—take a break from your anxiety. Just block it out and be here now.

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The Art of Calm: The Secret Doorway

I spent years trying to escape anxiety before I found the way out. I meditated, followed guided visualizations, tried every calm-down method I could find in self-help books.

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The Art of Calm: The Connection Solution

You’ve seen it on TV a hundred times. 
The great detective (or doctor or scientist or whatever) has been working the case night and day, with no success. 

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The Art of Calm: All of Creation

All of us anxious people have our own special, horrible “flavor” of anxiety, like the worst wine in the world. 
My usual anxiety has a primary flavor of overwhelm, with strong notes of powerlessness and an underlying base note of terror and despair.

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ComingJune 14, 2023

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