Your Name Is Not Anxious - by Stephanie Dowrick (Paperback)

About the Book

"A deeply personal guide to putting anxiety in its place by award-winning author and psychotherapist Dr. Stephanie Dowrick Anxiety is the most treatable of all our psychological challenges. Yet more and more of us are anxious, and familiar treatments can feel impossible to access or plainly inadequate. With a radical whole-self, whole-body approach, and the courage to tell her own story, Dr. Stephanie Dowrick puts knowledge and power back where it belongs: in your hands. Based on a rare depth of research and insight, Your Name Is Not Anxious offers an informed, compassionate perspective to help readers facing the loss of confidence and resilience that comes with chronic or acute anxiety. Using the power of story and the latest research, readers will learn to: - Calm the body - Quiet the mind - End self-blame and helplessness - Radically reduce stress - Understand the power of mind-body-brain links Even in the most difficult circumstances, immediate change is possible. Dr. Dowrick's commitment, wisdom, and honesty shows you how"--

Book Synopsis

"A powerful net of resources... will lift you when things are difficult...Keep it near." ―Mark Nepo, author of You Don't Have to Do It Alone

"The wisdom offered here is...exactly what we need in today's anxiety-ridden world." --Dr. Chloe Carmichael, PhD, author of Nervous Energy

A deeply personal guide to putting anxiety in its place by award-winning author and psychotherapist Dr. Stephanie Dowrick

Anxiety is the most treatable of all our psychological challenges. Yet more and more of us are anxious, and familiar treatments can feel impossible to access or plainly inadequate.

With a radical whole-self, whole-body approach, and the courage to tell her own story, Dr. Stephanie Dowrick puts knowledge and power back where it belongs: in your hands. Based on a rare depth of research and insight, Your Name Is Not Anxious offers an informed, compassionate perspective to help readers facing the loss of confidence and resilience that comes with chronic or acute anxiety.

Using the power of story and the latest research, readers will learn to:
- Calm the body
- Quiet the mind
- End self-blame and helplessness
- Radically reduce stress
- Understand the power of mind-body-brain links

Even in the most difficult circumstances, immediate change is possible. Dr. Dowrick's commitment, wisdom, and honesty shows you how.

Review Quotes

Praise for Your name is not Anxious

"In Your Name Is Not Anxious, renowned therapist and minister Stephanie Dowrick weaves a powerful net of resources, drawing profoundly on her own experiences, the stories of others, and the insights regarding trouble and care throughout time. This book is a spiritual toolbox that will lift you when things are difficult and sustain you when things are in a stream of ease. Keep it near. It will help you be more human." --Mark Nepo, author of You Don't Have to Do It Alone and The Book of Awakening

"I'm quite certain Stephanie wrote this book for me. It's an absolute lifeline for anyone with anxiety." --Dr Jodi Richardson, anxiety speaker, author, and host of Well, hello anxiety podcast

"The breadth of the territory this book explores is what impresses me most. Stephanie Dowrick elucidates the origins of, and existing treatments for, anxiety states by discussing recent medical research and the essential principles of several schools of psychotherapy. Her down-to-earth suggestions and her compelling vignettes of real people, young and old, as they struggle with anxiety make this an especially valuable handbook for anyone caught in its grip - and for those trying to help them escape it." --Lisa Alther, author of Kinflicks and Swan Song

"Dr. Dowrick knows what she's talking about. Despite all her accolades and genius, her book reads like a note from a friend--I felt like she was speaking directly to me. The wisdom offered here is passionate yet gentle, exactly what we need in today's anxiety-ridden world." --Dr. Chloe Carmichael, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of Nervous Energy

"This brilliant book effectively addresses one of the biggest emotional epidemics of our time: anxiety. With a deep understanding of not just the psychological but biological aspects, Stephanie Dowrick shares real life, real world tools and how to create a self-therapy healing practice that works. All in one easy to understand volume. I will be recommending this to many!" --Kris Ferraro, International Energy Healer, speaker, and author of Your Difference Is Your Strength, Manifesting, and Energy Healing

"Stephanie Dowrick's writing is like sunshine for the growth of our 'wise self.' Her words nurture the seeds of kindness, creativity, generosity, aliveness and presence that lie within us all. Stephanie's words and insights have enriched my life with wisdom, hope, and courage." --Professor Marie Bismark, Consultant Psychiatrist

"Dr. Stephanie Dowrick has put her finger on the pulse of our tendency toward anxiety, which is our collective norm right now. Kudos to this book and its goal to serve all humans in settling our body and mind to function in healthier ways." --Rev. Dr. Michelle Wadleigh, author of Shadow Work

"Read. This. Book. It's lifesaving." --Magda Szubanski

"One of the most useful books I have read in over 40 years as a psychotherapist." --Helen Palmer, Director, Psychosynthesis Education & Research, New Zealand

"Wise, insightful and, most importantly, genuinely useful. Dowrick has done it again! This book will help thousands." --Nigal Marsh, author and host of Five of My Life

"Warm, humane, intimate, this book provides compassionate suggestions in bite-sized chapters that people can read without experiencing a sense of failure of self-blame. The overall theme that we are experts in our own lives is affirming and wonderful." --Josie McSkimming, PhD, clinical social worker and psychotherapist

"This book is so comforting and joyful. It gives us a way to tame our dragons rather than going full-bore slaying. As usual, Stephanie Dowrick is more than a teacher, she's a reassuring guide by our sides." --Jenna Price, PhD, journalist and social commentator

"The blend of psychotherapeutic depth, spirituality and practical common sense is rare. Dr. Dowrick has made an array of connected insights accessible to us all: a timely gift in our anxious and troubled world." --Patrick McGorry AO

"Your name is not Anxious is such a comfort of a book, and so very important right now. I love the combination of practical advice, connection, strategy and research. I want a copy by my bed!" --Kathryn Heyman, PhD, author of Fury

"Stephanie Dowrick puts anxiety, one of the biggest problems of our time, in its proper context: body, mind and soul." --Tom Tilley, television and radio presenter, author of Speaking in Tongues

Praise for Stephanie Dowrick

"Stephanie Dowrick is a lilting genius of the inner worlds." --SARK

"Through thoughtful observations and compelling stories, [Stephanie] Dowrick models for the reader an effective way to consider the journey toward love of others and of self." --Publishers Weekly

"Stephanie Dowrick is a godsend. Her gift is the ability to write in a manner that genuinely enriches and changes lives." --Nigel Marsh, host of Five of My Life

"Dr. Stephanie Dowrick makes the hard questions simple. She makes the impossible real and possible. Her wisdom is contagious." --Paul Wilson, author of the Calm books

"She offers penetrating insights into some of the most complex paradoxes in human relationships." --The Guardian (UK)

"One of the most authentic teachers of our time." --Tao de Haas, psychotherapy coach

"Like the great sages, Dowrick is aware that the progress from denial to understanding is a lengthy one, and that true wisdom comes from experiencing all that life can bring and reflecting deeply upon it." --Anne French, The Listener

"Since I was a teenager, Stephanie Dowrick's work has been absolutely central to my understanding of the possibility of happiness." --Clare Bowditch, musician and author

"Ultimately it is Dowrick's honesty, combined with her huge heart, that lifts her above others." --Claire Scobie, Sydney Morning Herald

About the Author

Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, D.Min, has won major US awards for three of her books: Choosing Happiness: Life & soul essentials, Creative Journal Writing, and Heaven on Earth. A former leading publisher and psychotherapist, her much-loved best-sellers also include Intimacy & Solitude, Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love, The Universal Heart, Seeking the Sacred, and Everyday Kindness. She has written fiction for adults and children, contributes widely to mainstream and social media, and is known for her public speaking and workshop/retreat leadership in person and via Zoom, benefitting many hundreds each year. Stephanie was born in Aotearoa/New Zealand, spent sixteen years in Europe, mainly in the UK where she co-founded The Women's Press in London. She now lives in Australia and makes active use of global social media.