The Anxious Writer: Turning fears into superpowers. Episode 357

<p>Actually, there is no action without anxiety. We all feel it, and we’re all driven by it—and almost no one is completely at peace with it. Morra Aarons-Mele, author of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There (When You’d Rather Stay Home), has been working for years to normalize those feelings and the spectrum on which they appear to bring mental health struggles out into the open and encourage people to rethink the relationship between their mental health and their success. We talk about harnessing every degree of anxiety and finding ways to keep going—and even go better—when things get hard.</p><p><strong>LINKS FROM THE POD</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781647822538">The Anxious Achiever</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062666093">Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There (When You’d Rather Stay Home)</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://morraam.com/podcast">The Anxious Achiever Podcast</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://morraam.com/">Morra Aarons-Mele</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://amwriting.substack.com/p/using-tropes-and-genres-like-a-pro">Using tropes and genres like a pro: Ep 334 with Alexis Hall</a></p><p><strong>#AmReading</strong></p><p><strong>Morra: </strong>Robertson Davies <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780140147551">The Deptford Trilogy</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0241952611">The Cornish Trilogy</a></p><p>Which sent us onto a tangent that included: Peter Orner, author of <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781646221363">Still No Word From You</a>, Katie Crouch, author of <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250849328">Embassy Wife</a>, Andy Borowitz of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>, Sarah Stewart Taylor, author of <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250826688">A Stolen Child</a> and <a target