Anxiety is running rampant not just in our culture but in this moment in history. The Hobbses offer a down-to-earth, practical approach to overcoming anxiety that everyone can benefit from. When Anxiety Strikes will help you experience the breakthrough youre searching for. -- Margaret Feinberg, author of More Power to You
This book is the gift of two faithful disciples who are listening for how God is speaking through the realities and rhythms of their own lives. Dena and Jason Hobbs are prayerful theologians who offer thoughtfully integrated reflections on Scripture, brain, and body. The insights and practices they provide here promise to sustain us in difficult moments as well as reshape our responses to triggers that cannot be avoided. I look forward to sharing this resource with pastors and church leaders who want to honor and facilitate the ways many in our congregations find wholeness in our bodies and spirits. -- Nikki Collins, national coordinator of 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Church USA
When Anxiety Strikes is an excellent book for anxiety management and a valuable resource within the Christian tradition. We are fortunate to have this book combining personal narrative, pastoral wisdom, and clinical insights. -- Harold G. Koenig, MD, director, Center for Spirituality,Theology, and Health, Duke Uni. Med Center
As a family therapist who responds weekly to persons in crisis, I am eager to recommend this practical assembly of exercises and remedies that Jason and Dena Hobbs have provided for the care and relief of those coping with these debilitating attacks. The authors write from personal experience and with spiritual insight, offering encouragement and help in the process. -- Daniel G. Bagby, PhD, AAMFT, Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Care, Baptist Theological Seminary
The earth seems to be shifting under our feet with a global pandemic, ecological crises, wars, you name it. No wonder we are anxious. But anxiety undermines health, leads to bad decisions, and hurts relationships. And those who dont know they are anxious are actually most at risk of anxiety damaging their health or flaring out destructively. If we are human, anxiety is an issue. Saying have faith is a platitude. We need real help. This book offers that help. It grounds the ancient wisdom of Scripture in our bodily experience and builds upon that scriptural foundation with practices we can actually do to make it through the week. -- The Rt. Rev Dan Edwards, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada (retired)