Taming Fear in the Age of Covid

by Winfried Sedhoff

Overview

FEAR, UNCHECKED, DOMINATES AND RUINS LIVES.

In today's world, it's easy to fall victim to fear. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused fear levels to surge, sending global anxiety and stress levels to new highs. We worry about how we'll get by. We fear for the future. But all hope is not lost; you can overcome your fears and thrive.

With Taming Fear in the Age of Covid, mental health professional Dr. Winfried Sedhoff shows how you can master your anxiety and take back control of your life. After experiencing his own personal crisis that forced him to face his worst fears, Dr. Sedhoff now wishes to share what he's learned so that you too can emerge stronger from the other side. Inside, you'll discover:

·      actionable lessons to implement in your daily life to reduce stress and find peace

·      how to resolve different types of fears at their source, from day-to-day fears such as fear of failure to the fears of severe trauma, illness, PTSD, and death

·      how to prevent fears before they take hold

·      how you can tap into the secret fear-taming properties of nature

·       much, much more.

Whether you're experiencing fear related to COVID or anxiety in your home, study, or workplace, you deserve to live a calm life. As you'll learn, we each have the power to resolve our fears and choose our future. 

Who among us doesn't wish to truly tame their fears? 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780994609199
Publisher:	Dr Winfried Sedhoff Medical
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Winfried Sedhoff is a Family Physician with over 30 years of clinical experience specialising in mental health. He lives and practices in Brisbane, Australia.

Editorial Reviews

2022-11-03
A guide provides practical tactics for facing up to fear.

Australian physician Sedhoff has written a self-help book that goes far beyond the terror associated with Covid-19. This eminently readable text addresses fear in the larger sense, offering an authoritative overview of the subject as well as a programmatic way to “resolve” one’s apprehensions. Part 1 begins with an illuminating introduction to the ways in which fear affects the brain specifically and individuals in general. The author then dives into a seven-stage process designed to reduce the “fear burden.” Each of these stages contains numerous, clearly identified actions to take, such as four mindfulness skills, four “methods to create structure and routine,” and three steps to overcome social anxieties. One of the more intriguing chapters in the first part of the book concerns how the media can heighten various forms of fear. Part 2 takes a more novel approach: Here, Sedhoff suggests strategies for turning the “fear monster to friend.” The author characterizes the fear monster as “ ‘a balloon monster’…that looks real on the outside, but get inside it and we find it is full of hot air.” Using this imagery helps to amusingly but dramatically undermine the frightening aspects of fear and leads into a 10-step method for overcoming any type of anxiety. What Sedhoff does next is ingenious: After summarizing the guide in a chapter that acts as a “mini-workbook,” he illustrates in discrete chapters how the 10-step method applies to taming the fear of severe illness, death, Covid-19, and PTSD—the last included “because PTSD and the fear it elicits are so extreme, but also because it can be challenging to navigate out of.” In the final chapter the author concludes: “Unless we walk with fear and talk to it regularly, it can lead us down dangerous paths that we may not know we are taking until it is too late.” Sedhoff’s voice throughout the volume is compassionate, calming, and reassuring. The numerous, diverse examples of scared patients helped by the author add richness to the work and credibility to his methodology.

A manual that should be highly therapeutic for the fearful and anxious.

Kirkus Reviews