How to Overcome Fear and Break Free from Old Routines

Escape Your Rat Race

Feeling trapped by a job, relationship, or routine, but terrified of making a change? Martha Beck shows you how to feel your way to freedom.

By Martha Beck
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Feeling trapped by a job, relationship, or routine, but terrified of making a change? Martha Beck shows you how to feel your way to freedom.

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