Discovering Your Internal Universe
The Unexpected Good News About Anxiety, Panic, and Fear
- Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
A liberating and life-giving approach to making peace with anxiety What if anxiety is not an enemy trying to destroy you? What if anxiety is an unexpected ally trying to save you? In Discovering Your Internal Universe, author and pastor Cody Deese invites readers into this counterintuitive shift in how they understand anxiety. Challenging the common assumption that anxiety is an illness that only ever undermines us, Deese demonstrates how anxiety can be a helpful guide pointing us toward things that need our attention. Revealing his own lifelong struggle with a panic disorder, Deese describes how his anxiety illuminated a path that he needed to explore—a path into his internal universe. The journey brought Deese face to face with unresolved grief, childhood wounds, religious trauma, and personal rejection—and ultimately led to greater self-understanding and acceptance. Through Deese’s story, readers will learn how to access their own internal universe, discover the root causes of their anxiety, and find the courage to embark on their own internal quest. Unconventional, practical, and spiritually insightful, Discovering Your Internal Universe is an invitation to listen to the gentle truth behind anxiety: it is good to be human and it is good to be you.
Endorsements (4)
“Science classes teach us about the vastness of the external universe. But who helps us explore our internal universe—our inner world of dreams and dread, of imagination and terror, of panic and peace? I can’t think of a better guide than this book and its author, especially if you are dealing with anxiety, which all of us do at least some of the time. Seldom has such wisdom been shared with such clarity and mind-awakening storytelling.”
“Cody Deese delivers. You won’t want to put down this story of his heart-pounding journey into the depths of anxiety, the clarity he found there, and what his lived experience could mean for the rest of us. Every chapter is a stirring invitation to come home to every single part of who you are. Unlike authors who offer only conventional platitudes, Deese has gifted us a book that is fully human and utterly hopeful.”
“As somebody who’s read a lot of books about fear and anxiety, I’ve never read anything that comes close to Discovering Your Internal Universe—and that’s a really beautiful thing. Cody Deese’s book is wise without trying to be. It’s helpful without making you feel like you need help. If you’re anxious like me, you might find healing and hope inside these pages and you’ll find those things without ever feeling broken or overwhelmed. What Deese gives us here is a profound gift that I want to give every anxious person I know.”
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