Diane Dreher

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Overcoming Fear: An Invitation to Live More Creatively

November 1, 2008

Tags: fear, FDR, learned helplessness, creative, reactive

In his first inaugural address in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt told a nation suffering from the Great Depression that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed effort to convert retreat into advance.”

  • His words ring equally true for us today. (more…)

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Your Personal Renaissance
"A most helpful book for finding both your passion and your calling for life."
--Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., author of Love Is Letting Go of Fear
Spiritual
The Tao of Inner Peace
"A simple and comprehensive vision of personal and planetary peace...Dreher's examples work as meditations as well as road maps"
--Minneapolis Star Tribune