The Anxiety Project (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798295692062)

Most books about anxiety are written by people who have it all figured out. This one isn't.

Ian Kahler isn't a therapist or a Navy SEAL. He's a 21-year-old who used to have two or three panic attacks a day. As a kid, his anxiety got so bad he nearly failed the 7th grade just because walking into school felt dangerous.

So when he writes about fear, it's not from a textbook. It's from the trenches.

Somewhere along the way he realized you can't outthink fear. You have to walk through it. So he decided to stop avoiding the things that scared him and start chasing them down on purpose.

That's what this book is about. It's a guy facing his fears head-on and bringing you along for every nerve-wracking, hilarious, and freeing moment of it.

Readers follow along as he jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet, runs a 20-mile mountain race, shares his story in front of a room full of teenagers, and a whole lot more.

Some of it will make you laugh. Some of it might make you cry. All of it is true.

But this book isn't really about any of that. It's about the things you've been avoiding. The dreams on the shelf. The life waiting on the other side of the fear you keep running from. Because here's what Ian discovered again and again: the things you're most afraid of are usually the exact places you're meant to go.

And you don't have to do it alone. Woven through every challenge is a faith in Jesus that carried him through, and turned his fear into the very thing that draws him closer to God.

It won't promise you'll never feel afraid again. But it will leave you believing you're capable of so much more than your fear has been telling you.

The only question is whether you're ready to find out.