In this episode, I have the great pleasure of speaking to psychotherapist and author Dr. Kirk Schneider about why anxiety is skyrocketing in today’s world and culture and how to use, channel, and transform our fears and anxieties to enhance our lives, become more present and be filled with curiosity, humility, and wonder. Kirk talks about his timely, awesome, and fascinating book “Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World” and how our anxieties are due to existential issues stemming from the birth of trauma and fear of death and the unknown. Moreover, Kirk illustrates his views by underscoring important and essential psychoanalytic insights provided by the wonderful, profound, and soulful Otto Rank as well as Kirk’s own fascinating analysis of horror movies and literature and how this “cosmic fear” can help connect us with our true and authentic essence and being and lead us to the experience of awe and amazement.

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