Sheryl Lisa Finn, an author and educator specializing in Jungian psychology, shares transformative insights on overcoming anxiety through connection. She emphasizes that anxiety often stems from feeling unsafe and advocates for fostering ties with ourselves, others, and nature. Finn discusses the healing power of working with creativity, self-compassion, and ancestral connections as practical tools for emotional resilience. Listeners will find actionable techniques to manage anxiety and an understanding of its role in personal evolution amidst today's challenges.
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Anxiety Is Lack of Safety
Anxiety at its core is a feeling of lack of safety, often internal rather than external.
Cultivating connection to self, others, and the unseen realm creates a deep sense of safety that reduces anxiety.
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Widen Your Lake of Connection
Cultivate connection consistently rather than just avoiding anxiety moment to moment.
Accept anxiety's return and repeatedly return to practices of connection and safety to widen your inner lake of calm.
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Use Hands to Calm Anxiety
Engage your hands in tactile creative activities to calm anxiety and ground the nervous system.
Activities like kneading dough or knitting reconnect you to your body and interrupt anxious headspace.
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Take Back the Magic is a transformative book that guides readers on a journey to reclaim their innate power and reconnect with the mystical aspects of life. Perdita Finn offers practical tools and insights to tap into ancestral wisdom, intuition, and the unseen forces that shape our reality. The book encourages readers to embrace ritual, symbolism, and creative expression as means of healing and personal empowerment. It blends ancient traditions with contemporary practices, providing a framework for creating a more meaningful and magical existence. Take Back the Magic invites individuals to rediscover their connection to the natural world, their ancestors, and their own inner source of wisdom.
The Wisdom of Anxiety
The Wisdom of Anxiety
How to Use Anxiety to Develop Your Full Potential
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The Wisdom of Anxiety is a book that explores anxiety as a messenger, indicating that something needs attention. It suggests that anxiety is not merely a negative emotion but a signal of deeper unmet needs or areas of disconnection. It delves into the underlying causes of anxiety, offering readers insights and practices to understand and address these root issues. The book provides a framework for turning anxiety into a catalyst for self-discovery and healing. It emphasizes the importance of self-compassion, emotional awareness, and spiritual connection in navigating anxiety and finding inner peace.
Safe and Sound
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Safe and Sound explores the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, and its applications in healing and connection. The book delves into the neurobiology of trust, explaining how our nervous systems communicate safety and threat through various signals. It introduces the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), a listening therapy that uses music to regulate the nervous system and promote calmness. The authors detail case studies showcasing the SSP's effectiveness in treating trauma, anxiety, and other conditions. Ultimately, the book empowers readers to understand and regulate their nervous systems, fostering healthier relationships and overall well-being.
The Healing Anxiety Workbook
A Guide to Calm Worry and Intrusive Thoughts at the Root
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Beyond Anxiety
Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
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In *Beyond Anxiety*, Dr. Martha Beck addresses the rising epidemic of anxiety and explains how our brains get stuck in an 'anxiety spiral.' She provides simple, powerful exercises to reduce anxiety immediately and introduces the concept of a 'creativity spiral' to engage different parts of the nervous system. This approach not only shuts down anxiety but also leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful connections with others and the world.
With so many valid concerns stoking fear in today’s world, it’s no wonder that more and more of us are living in a state of chronic anxiety that seems irreversible. If you’re feeling at a loss about how to reclaim your peace of mind, body, and spirit, Sheryl Lisa Finn has a life-changing suggestion: Don’t underestimate the power of connection. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with the author of The Healing Anxiety Workbook to share actionable insights and approaches for dissolving anxiety on the spot and experiencing inner safety and serenity (without “bypassing” the realities of our times).
Enjoy this conversation on: anxiety in a nutshell—sensing a lack of safety; reverse engineering anxiety; working with trauma at the root; when anxiety seeps back in; finding a source of goodness bigger than yourself; grief; building a foundation of connectivity that we can source into in challenging times; creativity and working with our hands; receiving support from the “wise self” within; Jungian psychology, archetypes, and dreamwork; fighting the spiritual fight in the face of systemic problems; anxiety’s hidden agenda—to serve our evolution; a practice to release the anxiety-producing stories we tell ourselves; the power of ritual and the importance of getting out of our rational minds; the practice of asking your ancestors to take your worry from you; anxiety in relationships, and how connection becomes a remedy; panic attacks; anxiety as a friend in disguise; and more.
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