Seven Percent Slower - A Simple Trick For Moving Past Anxiety And Stress (Paperback or Softback)

Are you speeding up and rushing around when anxious, stressed, or afraid? Seven Percent Slower is a friendly, easy-to-read guide to understanding and breaking the speed habit that fuels your anxiety and stress fires.

When anxiety, stress, and fear show up, you speed up. The bad news is that this is making things worse for you. The good news is that you can learn to break the speed habit. If you are on a quest to find a calmer, less stressed, and less frantic life, learning to slow down can go a long way toward achieving that goal.

Seven Percent Slower will help you understand how the fear center in your brain drives your speed habit, why this was a good idea thousands of years ago, and why this is a bad idea in the modern world. The book will teach you how to recognize your speed habits and how to slowly change them over time. Seven Percent Slower will help you understand why you may be resistant to slowing down, how slowing down can change your life, and how concepts like mindfulness come into play.

Full of practical advice and sprinkled with humor, Seven Percent Slower is destined to become a useful addition to your stress management and coping skills toolbox.

Drew is a therapist specializing in the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders, creator and host of The Anxious Truth podcast, co-host of the Disordered podcast, an author, a psychoeducator, and an anxiety and mental health advocate. Having suffered from anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and depression several times over a 20 year period, Drew got it together once and for all in 2008. Since then life has been happy, productive, and free of anxiety-related restrictions and rituals. For the last 15+ years, Drew has been active in the online anxiety community, working to use his training, his experience, and his understanding to help those that are struggling with chronic and disordered forms of anxiety. His no-nonsense approach to these problems and willingness to compassionately provide direct, actionable information even when it might not be easy to hear, has established him as a unique voice in the community with an engaged audience of over 125,000 across multiple social platforms. In 2020, Drew published two books on anxiety and anxiety recovery. An Anxiety Story and The Anxious Truth have quickly become required reading for anyone suffering from anxiety and in need of education, instruction, inspiration, encouragement, and empowerment.