“The Anxiety Opportunity” with Curtis Chang

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

“The fundamental question that anxiety poses [to] us is: What is our relationship to suffering?” notes this week’s podcast guest, author, theologian, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety, Curtis Chang.

His new book, "The Anxiety Opportunity,” offers a fresh perspective on anxiety as a doorway to spiritual transformation. He challenges the idea that anxiety is an enemy to be defeated – instead presenting it as a path towards personal growth and a deeper connection with Jesus.

Curtis points out, “There's an invitation to redemption and that our best self found in Jesus is only found to the extent that we can go through our pain, including our pain of anxiety.”

If you’re ready to think differently about the relationship between anxiety and spiritual growth, we invite you to listen to today’s conversation with Curtis Chang, then pick up your copy of “The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self,” out this week anywhere books are sold.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:28.8	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, we know that you have self-identified a number of times as a somewhat, somewhat anxious human being.
0:39.3	Would that be a fair entry into our conversation?
0:43.3	Oh, certainly so, yes.
0:45.3	So as we approach the category of anxiety, I can honestly tell you, I have not had a sense of like, oh, I've got a book.
0:55.9	I've got a book for a good friend or someone, including me, to engage this.
1:03.1	And it's been, oh, there's a lot written on it.
1:06.0	Come on.
1:06.5	We live and did live in the age of anxiety.
1:10.1	So it's not like there has not been a lot of replete sources.
1:14.7	But what we have the privilege of doing today is interacting with an author of a new book,
1:23.4	Curtis, I'm going to introduce you in a moment.
1:26.3	But let me just say, welcome, welcome.
1:30.2	It's great to be here.
1:31.3	Thank you, Dan.
1:32.0	Yeah.
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