In the revised and updated edition of her international bestseller From Panic to Power—now featuring the latest research, intimate stories, extensive new content, and thought-provoking journal prompts, affirmations, and intentions—Lucinda Bassett offers proven strategies and powerful techniques for eliminating your anxiety and transforming your life.

For many people, anxiety can feel like a weakness, even a tortuous lifetime sentence. But the opposite is true. According to bestselling author, certified breathwork practitioner, and motivational speaker Lucinda Bassett, anxiety is your superpower, evidence of traits—like being highly sensitive, creative, analytical, and passionate—that can pave the way for success and contentment. Bassett writes with uncompromising truth and a fierce desire to inspire and empower, sharing what she has learned from her own experiences with panic, anxiety, and severe trauma and showing how to find the hidden powers within yourself to overcome fear and manifest your best life.

From Panic to Power has helped hundreds of thousands of readers see their anxiety not as a defect or illness that should be concealed, but as a strategic asset that can be used to your advantage, and a defining strength that sets you apart.

In this edition, Bassett:

• Addresses the unique anxieties people are facing today.
• Teaches how to change your thoughts and reactions to disempower your triggers and minimize your anxious episodes.
• Explores the importance of regular exercise and a healthy diet in healing the mind and body.
• Highlights the science and practice of intentional, deep breathing that can help relax you and elevate your consciousness, while also keeping you grounded.
• Includes journal prompts and guided affirmations for meditation and advice for setting intentions, so you can start taking control and feeling empowered immediately.

Bassett’s methods enable people with anxiety to gain greater self-awareness and insight into the thoughts and behaviors that fuel their struggles and keep them stuck. With her straightforward advice, she teaches effective techniques to transform negative self-talk, scary obsessive thinking, and destructive worry into self-compassion, inner calm, and enduring confidence.