About this episode

In this episode, Jon Brooks discusses how fighting anxiety can worsen the condition and shares a breakthrough through the Stoic concept of amor fati.

For most of my adult life I had a low-level hypervigilance running in the background. I tried to fight it with books, breathwork, control techniques, willpower. The harder I fought, the worse it got. In this episode I share the breakthrough that came when I stopped fighting and started welcoming. It is a Stoic and Nietzschean reframe called amor fati, the love of fate, and it changed my relationship with anxiety. We get into the two layers of suffering and why fighting anxiety creates the sec...

People in this episode

Host: Jon Brooks

Topics covered

• anxiety
• stoicism
• self-acceptance
• mental health
• philosophy

Keywords

• anxiety
• stoicism
• amor fati
• mental health
• self-improvement

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