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Embracing Fear: How to Turn What Scares Us into Our Greatest Gift Kindle Edition

by Thom Rutledge (Author), Gavin de Becker (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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It′s Time to Take Back Your Life

Fear takes many forms -- dread, panic, anxiety, self-consciousness, superstition, and negativity -- and manifests itself in many ways -- avoidance, procrastination, judgment, control, and agitation, to name just a few. Whether we are afraid of the dark or being alone, of failure or commitment, of public speaking or flying, fear dominates our lives, affecting nearly every decision we make.

Combining compelling stories from the author′s twenty-five-year practice, examples from his own struggles with addiction and depression, and practical exercises and tools, Embracing Fear does not pretend to teach the impossible and eliminate fear, but rather shows us that once we understand it we can live beyond its tyrannical control. Instead of repressing or ignoring the voices of panic and dread, we learn that it is only through facing, exploring, accepting, and responding to fear that we free ourselves from its paralyzing grip.

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“Take a wonderful journey through and beyond your fear with Thom Rutledge.”

About the Author

Thom Rutledge has over twenty-five years' experience as a psychotherapist. Thom's trademark sense of humor, a down-to-earth practicality, and his own compassion are the common threads that run throughout his unique brand of self-help psychology. Thom also writes regularly for self-help/recovery publications around the country, including Steps for Recovery (Los Angeles), The Phoenix (Minneapolis), and Recovery Today.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000YQHMEC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne; Reprint edition (October 13, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 993 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0062517759
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    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

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Welcome to my Author Page. You will find all of my titles listed here & I hope you will discover my material to both enjoyable & useful. My most recent release is a Kindle e-book called Sit Down & Shut Up, a little book about meditation from a practical, simplified perspective. Also in 2018 I released What Love Is & in 2017, The Greater Possibilities. Both of these are what I call "books for people who don't read self-help books." Both are written & designed as gift books; I hope you might like them enough to want to share with family & friends.

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BIOGRAPHY:

Thom Rutledge has over thirty-five years experience as a psychotherapist. Thom's trademark sense of humor, a down-to-earth practicality, and his own compassion are the common threads that run throughout his unique brand of self-help psychology. He has been featured on NBC's Today Show, Fox News, CNN and has consulted with the Dr. Phil Show.

In addition to his private therapy practice in Nashville, Tennessee, Thom is internationally known for his personal growth workshops and professional training seminars. He also facilitates his Recovery Recharge Weekend Retreats 3 times a year at Onsite Workshops, in Cumberland Furnace, TN, just west of Nashville.

Thom self-published his first book, Simple Truth, in 1990. After self-publishing a second book, If I Were They, he wrote 2 books, The Self-Forgiveness Handbook and Earning Your Own Respect, and an audio workbook, Practice Makes Practice, for New Harbinger Publications in Oakland, California. In 2002, Harper SanFrancisco (now HarperOne) published Embracing Fear. In 2003 McGraw-Hill published Life Without Ed, which is written by Jenni Schaefer with contributions from Thom's work with her in therapy for eating disorder recovery. Also in 2003 Thom released Nutshell Essays with iUniverse.

Anyone interested in remaining current with Thom's work, can visit his website -- www.thomrutledge.com --- and/or follow him on Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/thom.rutledge.9 -- and/or follow him on Twitter --- @thomrutledge

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O. Merce Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary Self-Help Book
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2011
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This book is a great read all about fear. Specifically, it is about embracing fear---facing fear---rather than running from it, stuffing it, etc. Unlike most self-help books, the author does not presume to be an authority with easy answers; instead, he is a fellow human being who struggles with his own fear and that of his clients. He shares very practical techniques to approach your fears so that you can still have the life you want, regardless of your fears.

Fear underlies most if all negative emotions. I found this book to be very helpful. The author asks many helpful questions such as "What would I do today if I were brave?"...leading me to see where my fears stopped me.

Another technique he uses is splitting our self-talk into the negative voices of unhealthy unnecessary fear (which he calls The Bully) and the positive voices of what we know with our heads and hearts (which he calls The Ally). This has been really helpful to me, too. He makes the point that we will never rid ourselves of fear, but we will be less and less bothered by it as we learn how to face it.

This book differs from an ordinary self-help book in that it is amazingly useful, plus the author is practical, transparent, realistic, and humble. I loved reading it, highlighted it all over the place, and will read it again.

It is an excellent value and worth hours of therapy. I would even suggest it in lieu of therapy! I immediately bought two copies to send to two of my closest friends.

Note that this book is a later edition of the very same book "Embracing Fear: and Finding the Courage to Live Your Life", published several years earlier...so if you have one, you have the other.

Highly recommended.
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Caprice
5.0 out of 5 stars Relatable and honest
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023
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The author gets to the point and is transparent about his own personal life experiences. I appreciate his realistic approach on how to coexisting with your fears and how human it is express multiple emotions and have multiple perspectives within yourself. Its been a long time since I’ve finished a book, I really enjoyed this read.
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LL Learner
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Author has a great podcast, too.
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2020
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This book made me think of things from different angles, and I immediately put some concepts to use. It's a great tool kit. I like the way the author distills key concepts into "nutshells" and keeps it real with humorous observations sprinkled in. I've been listening to the author (Thom Rutledge) on a great podcast "Start Right Here," which he does with another therapist, Dr. Allen Berger.
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Griffin's Girl
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2014
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Thom Rutledge is an incredibly gifted speaker and writer who can take the most complicated of emotions, like fear, and make it something interesting to explore and better yet, to understand. That takes a lot of recovery and facing what is. Mr Rutledge shares his own experiences confronting fears, and those of whom he treats, but it is clear that the human struggle with fear is in all of us.
Thank you SO much Mr Rutledge for creating ways to stay present to the most difficult of emotions, for giving us metaphors and skills, and for bringing the program of recovery to all of our inner communities. Your books are true healers.
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W. Shaw
2.0 out of 5 stars Pages are out of order! Very disappointed ☹️
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2022
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The content of the book was good but the quality was lousy. The pages were printed out of order.
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Case Garvey
3.0 out of 5 stars I would not recommend it.
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2016
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Nothing too new hear, I would not recommend it.
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Jennifer L. Pearce
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Tools for the mental tool box
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2007
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I really got a lot of useful tips/reminders out of this book in dealing with stress, fear and panic attacks. It is an easy read and the author has a good sense of humor. All good things when dealing with fear!
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JK
5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom can resolve Fear
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2007
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I read an Amazon Reviewer who mentioned this book while reviewing another book. By happenstance I bought a great read. Thom Rutledge writes from the heart and mind and simply communicates his wisdom about embracing fear. On page 35, Ruthledge writes a poignant sentence, "...how we relate to fear determines how we do in life, and maybe it is the essence of who we are." It is a must read if you want understand the root of your fear and how to transform it into a benefit.
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Suzanne
5.0 out of 5 stars Really resonated with me.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2020
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As a psychology grad, I can't stand "pop psychology." I do, however, read quite a few reputable "self help" books - and this is one of them. It helped me to reframe a lot of my existing thinking, which has been incredibly helpful. I don't usually take the time to write reviews, but this book has been such a stand-out, at least to me, I thought I would do so.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You will be amazed!
Reviewed in India on April 15, 2020
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When I started reading this book (not my first self help book) I was amazed at the depth of each scenario the author took me. Not all but some of the scenarios definitely were directly applicable to me, which is very rare in a book meant for general audience. I applied some of the exercises prescribed by the author as I turned the pages and most of them worked for me. I was meaning to go to a therapist from a very long time but the very idea of finding a good therapist put me down.
Thank you Thom and his wonderful team for working on something so meaningful. It's the first self help book I actually read cover to cover, the content spoke to me on so many levels and I had a few therapy sessions on my own (as guided by the book of course). The experience was refreshing. I recommend the book to readers who are not looking for band-aid solutions in life but are willing to put in work for an entire healing process.
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Hannah J
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2015
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Very interesting book. Feel the fear and do it anyway. :)
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John
1.0 out of 5 stars Evidently, the printer has no quality management system in place.
Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2020
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Waste of money - the book was bound improperly such that all of the pages were out of order.
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