Publisher's Synopsis
This book is about healing and recovery, not just in anxiety, but in life. It takes the reader through an intense story of suffering and ultimately recovery. If you want to change your life, the MASTER PLAN helps you recondition your thoughts and change aspects of your life, steering you in a direction you choose. Taking control of your life and entertaining the dream until it's a reality, the MASTER PLAN is an amazing journey. SOAR with me to new heights--Michelle LeFortEXERT FROM THE FORWARDBy David Brendel, MD, PhD(Dr. Brendel is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, MD from Harvard Medical School, Former Chief Resident in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Former Deputy Editor of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and published author.)"Anxiety lies at the heart of the human condition. We all experience it in different ways throughout a lifetime. It is part of our bodies, minds, and souls. Anxious thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations can shift from moment to moment, day to day, year to year. Until we interpret anxiety as positive or negative, we would do well to think of it simply as a neutral fact in the world. That mindset empowers us to draw on it potential benefits while mitigating its harms and transforming it into a source of sound judgment -- and even wisdom.In her breathtaking book, Michelle Lefort takes us on a raw, personal journey through the good, bad, and ugly of anxiety. Courageously and poignantly, she generously shares with us the crippling effects anxiety had on her life -- and how she embraced her experience, navigated through it creatively, and constructed a healthy and fulfilling life for herself. She deserves to think of her book as a crowning achievement, both an indicator of her remarkable recovery and a unique source of advice and hope for others.Michelle's writing is so lively and engaging that we feel as though we are experiencing her life from the inside, while separately considering its implications for our own lives. It is a real page-turner. We come to empathize deeply with Michelle and cheer her on as she takes on challenge after challenge. In the process, we learn to reframe our thinking about our own anxiety, coming to see how it can teach us and serve us (rather than simply impair us). It provokes us to think about what anxiety is all about, and how we can leverage it to move our lives forward."
