Joy from Fear: Create the Life of Your Dreams by Making Fear Your Friend

Joy from Fear: Create the Life of Your Dreams by Making Fear Your Friend

If you find yourself running away from fear, you’re running in the wrong direction. Fear demands that we move toward it, face it, and hear its messages. When we fail to do this, the price is high―chronic anxiety, sleeplessness, damaged relationships, skyrocketing pharmaceutical use, and more. In her enlightening book Joy from Fear, clinical psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly explains that fear is not the enemy we thought it was; fear, when faced with awareness, is the powerful ally and best friend we all need. Dr. Manly's work is firmly based in science but goes far beyond presenting the dry facts.  Joy from Fear  offers page after page of real-life examples, insights, easy-to-use tools, and life-changing exercises. Coining the term transformational fear , Dr. Manly illuminates the importance of embracing fear’s messages for a transformed life filled with freedom and lasting happiness.   She shows a way, clearly and with certainty, to shift from far that can tear a life apart to reimagining the role of fear in life. -Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul and Ageless Soul. Dr. Carla Marie Manly is a unique, genuine, and compassionate writer who reveals her sacred truth to guide the reader into self-discovery, understanding, and self-love. During the journey, she provides safe, thoughtful insights to promote acceptance in honoring all parts of the self. Joy from Fear is an incomparable guidebook for those who wish to achieve lasting mental and emotional transformation. --Orchid Daneshmand Johnson, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, and board-certified PTSD clinician. An excellent book that will not only help you face your fears, but use those fears. I didn't realize how much of my life was ruled by fear. I like the idea of "transformational fear" and listening to the fear to use it as a tool for self-discovery. Bravo, Dr. Carla Manly, bravo! --Mary Potter Kenyon, Award-winning author and certified grief counselor Prior to reading Joy from Fear, I had never thought of fear as a rich invitation to self-discovery and life enrichment. Of course, as a psychologist and psychotherapist, I have helped many clients heal from and conquer their fears. But the concept of "transformational fear" offers a depth of understanding that has been missing. Joy from Fear is such an intriguing and welcome book. Thank you, Dr. Manly, for bringing fear of the darkness to its place in the light where it belongs. --Denise Wagner, PsyD, LCSW A great book to give readers who can't afford therapy a way to deal with anxiety, PTSD, trauma, depression, etc. It teaches you about realistic fears and irrational fears and helps empower people to figure out how to be your best self. Fear is always portrayed as the opposite of hope, but this book helps you to turn that around--to use that fear to bring hope INTO your life. --Lorri Antosz Benson, Writer/Producer and Author of Adopting Hope, Distorted, and To Have and Not to Hold Dr. Carla Marie Manly, a practicing clinical psychologist, author, and speaker, uses a mindfulness-based approach that is rooted in neurobiology. Dr. Manly’s passion is helping others discover joy, balance, and optimal wellness from the inside out.