The Power of Anxiety
The Empowering Sunday Times Bestselling Guide to Stop Fighting your Anxiety and Start Using it
$31.19
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
Anxiety can have an immense power, affecting the way we think, feel and behave. Keeping us inside, away from people, places and opportunities. Making us question, doubt or criticise ourselves. Sending us into a sea of worry, which threatens to overwhelm us. But what if we stopped trying to fight the waves and, instead, learned to ride them?
This compelling, warm and accessible book looks at anxiety differently. It helps us understand how to drop the struggle with it and listen to what…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805465034 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805465031 |
| Author: | Dr Sian Williams |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Such a clear-sighted and informative read. It demystifies anxiety and offers a way through it. Invaluable – Kaye Adams, presenter
What if we made friends with anxiety? If we stopped trying to fight it? In this brilliantly counter-intuitive book, Williams gives us the tools to do just that. – Rachel Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gift of Teenagers
Wonderfully insightful and constantly fascinating - a must-read. – Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb, former Minister of State for Care and Support and mental health campaigner
Calming, helpful and timely – Richard Madeley, presenter
Dr Sian Williams has written a book that many of us need – Nick Midgley, PhD, Professor of Psychological Therapies with Children and Young People, UCL and Anna Freud, London
A delightfully warm and human book – Dr Lucy Maddox
Informative and engaging – Gwendoline Smith
Dr Sian Williams
Dr Sian Williams is an award-winning broadcast journalist and chartered counselling psychologist. She has spent years counselling those living with anxiety, both in the UK’s NHS and privately, and has also worked with media organisations, governments, and businesses to help prevent staff burnout.
Sian is also one of Britain’s most trusted broadcasters, having spent four decades in TV and radio, including eleven years hosting BBC Breakfast. She now presents BBC Radio 4’s Life Changing and BBC Radio 3’s Unwind.
Her first book, Rise: Surviving and Thriving after Trauma, was described by the Daily Mail as ‘the book every woman MUST read’. Anxiety is her lifetime companion.
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