Sarah Wilson – bestselling author and entrepreneur, intrepid solver of
problems and investigator of how to live a better life – has helped over
1.2 million people across the world to quit sugar. She has also been an anxiety
sufferer her whole life. In her new book, she directs her intense focus and
fierce investigatory skills onto this lifetime companion of hers, looking at the
triggers and treatments, the fashions and fads. She reads widely and interviews
fellow sufferers, mental health experts, philosophers, and even the Dalai Lama,
processing all she learns through the prism her own experiences. Sarah pulls at
the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, and unravels the notion that it
is a difficult, dangerous disease that must be medicated into submission.
Ultimately, she re-frames anxiety as a spiritual quest rather than a burdensome
affliction, a state of yearning that will lead us closer to what really matters.
Practical and poetic, wise and funny, this is a small book with a big heart.
It will encourage the myriad sufferers of the world's most common mental
illness to feel not just better about their condition, but delighted by the
possibilities it offers for a richer, fuller life.
Author Biography
Sarah Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur. Her career
as a journalist spanned 20 years, across television, radio, magazines,
newspapers and online. She's the former editor of Cosmopolitanmagazine and
was the host of the first series of MasterChef Australia, the highest-rating
show in Australian history. Sarah is the author of the international bestsellers
I Quit Sugar, I Quit Sugar For Life and Simplicious and is director and
founder of IQuitSugar.com. Her 8-Week Program has seen more than 1.2 million
people quit sugar worldwide. Sarah blogs on philosophy, anxiety, minimalism,
toxin-free living and anti-consumerism at sarahwilson.com, lives in Sydney,
rides a bike everywhere, is a compulsive hiker and is eternally curious.