Anxiety Can Be Your Superpower

A therapist and professor (Mark Ogletree) teams up with a young man (Brayden McFadden) who battled severe anxiety on his mission to offer a fresh, hopeful perspective: anxiety, properly understood, can be a superpower. Drawing on personal stories, research, and practical tools like cognitive reframing, the book reveals ten strengths anxious people possess—from empathy and motivation to resilience and emergency preparedness. Rather than only managing anxiety, readers learn to embrace it as a catalyst for becoming their best self.

• Co-authored by a seasoned therapist AND a young man who nearly lost his life to anxiety on his mission—two generations, one message.
• A counterintuitive premise: stop 'coping' with anxiety and start using it as a superpower.
• Real, raw account of an early-return missionary's suicidal crisis and recovery—rare candor for the LDS market.
• Ten concrete strengths of anxious people, backed by research and relatable stories.

“We are here to act, not to be acted upon.”

Perfect for an adult (or parent of a teen) who struggles with anxiety and wants a hopeful, faith-friendly reframe rather than a purely clinical coping manual.