Awakening From Anxiety

Rev. Connie L. Habash, MA, LMFT, has been passionate about personal and spiritual growth since her youth. Her journey took her through healing her own anxiety and depression, as well as supporting hundreds of others in awakening from fears, worry, and despair. Many fields interested her in college, but an epiphany revealed that psychology brought them all together. She received a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from JFK University in 1994, and became licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 1999. Always seeking the great perennial truths, she has studied and explored many spiritual traditions. Rev. Connie discovered yoga in 1991, and immediately she knew she wanted to teach; two years later, that dream was realized. Her love of sharing universal, spiritual principles led her to seek ordination as an Interfaith minister in 2012. Rev. Connie regularly leads classes, workshops, women’s groups, yoga teacher trainings, and retreats, and has a counseling practice in Menlo Park, CA. She has been quoted in the Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, NBCNews.com, Psych Central, and Thriveworks, and has featured articles on Elephant Journal and NY Times best-selling author Mike Dooley’s TUT website. Her orientation towards personal and spiritual growth integrates body, mind, heart, and spirit from her years of experience on the yoga mat and in the therapist chair. Discover more at her website, www.AwakeningSelf.com. Rama Jyoti Vernon, author of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: Gateway to Enlightenment and Yoga: the Practice of Myth and Sacred Geometry, is co-founder of Yoga Journal and the California Yoga Teachers Association, and an internationally-known yoga teacher and peace activist. She resides in Tyler, TX.

Table of Contents
Foreword


Part I: From Anxiety to AwakeningIntroduction: The Problem of Anxiety, Especially for Spiritual People
Chapter 1 My Story: A Journey of Transformation
Chapter 2 You Can Feel Calm, Confident, and Courageous!


Part II: The Mis-takes Spiritual People Make That Perpetuate Anxiety
Chapter 3 Spiritual Mistake #1 Perfectionism
Chapter 4 Spiritual Mistake #2 Flight to Light
Chapter 5 Spiritual Mistake #3 Leaving Your Body
Chapter 6 Spiritual Mistake #4 You Create Your Reality
Chapter 7 Spiritual Mistake #5 Feeling the Pain of the World
Chapter 8 Spiritual Mistake #6 The Safety/Danger Polarity
Chapter 9 How You Do Spirituality Is How You Do Everything


Part III: The Keys to a More Calm, Confident Life
Chapter 10 Presence
Chapter 11 Embodiment
Chapter 12 Self-Compassion
Chapter 13 Feeling Your Anxiety
Chapter 14 Listening to Your Anxiety
Chapter 15 Empowering Action
Chapter 16 Surrender


Part IV: Living a More Calm, Confident, and Courageous Life
Chapter 17 Resistance to Resilience
Chapter 18 What to Do When You Feel Stuck
Chapter 19 Seeing through the Anxiety to Your Self


Recommended Reading
Acknowledgments
Thank You
About the Author