Stillness in the Storm – 7 tools for coping with fear and uncertainty

Jan Alcoe · Dr Sarah Eagger

Mar 2023 · Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare · Narrated by Jan Alcoe

About this audiobook

We live in a world of change and uncertainty - we always have. But presently it's as if a storm were raging around us, churning up feelings of anxiety and fear and making it difficult to respond resourcefully to our own needs and those of others. This unique audio book offers an uplifting listening experience, covering seven practical self-help tools drawn from a broad range of positive psychology, therapeutic, and spiritual models and approaches. Each tool is designed to help us discover the 'stillness in the storm' --our sense of peace and inner wholeness. The book includes background information about coping with fear and uncertainty, simple exercises, audio meditations and commentaries, emergency responses, and positive affirmations to help the listener put its powerful ideas into everyday practice. The expert authors bring their clinical and personal experiences together to offer the listener immediate access to ways of calming and restoring resilience in challenging times. Chapter topics include: Fear and doing versus calm Returning to wholeness: our spiritual nature Creating Inner Safety Being Present Loving Myself Stepping Back and Accepting Empowering Myself Connecting Discovering Inner Peace and Wholeness Resilience Beyond the Storm

About the author

Jan Alcoe (BSSc PsychHons, DHypPsych(UK)) is publishing and training adviser to the Janki Foundation and has a background in writing and publishing in health and social care. She is trained in clinical hypnotherapy and has written two previous Janki Foundation self-help guides based on her professional experience and from coping with personal, serious illness, Lifting Your Spirits and The Heart of Well-being. She co-edited the self-development programme Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach for the Janki Foundation. Jan has retained a lifelong interest in positive psychology, the power of the mind-body connection and spirituality in healing, and was a past vice-chair of the British Holistic Medical Association. Sarah-Eagger Author: Dr Sarah Eagger Dr Sarah Eagger (MB,BS, FRCPsych) is Chair of the Janki Foundation. She worked for 30 years in the NHS as a consultant psychiatrist and honorary senior clinical lecturer in the department of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College, London, and also worked in private practice for 15 years. She is on the executive committees of both the Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry section of the World Psychiatric Association and the Special Interest Group on Spirituality at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). She is also past chair of the National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum and the British Holistic Medical Association. As a practitioner of Raja Yoga meditation for over 40 years and a certified Mindful Self Compassion teacher, she is an advocate of a values-based approach to healthcare - one that embraces peace, love, positivity and compassion for the benefit of oneself and others.