Summary

As Brown learned more about Wholehearted living, she felt it become harder and harder to ignore the anxiety in her life. To become more anxiety-aware, she began to emphasis calm and stillness. Calm is “creating perspective and mindfulness which managing emotional reactivity” (106). Calm people bring perspective to complex situations and feel their feelings without reacting to heightened emotions like fear and anger. To begin cultivating calm, Brown encourages readers to slow their reaction times and emphasize deep breathing.

Stillness is a quieting of the body and mind through either prayer, meditation, reflection and/or alone time. This is a way of reducing anxiety and overwhelm. Stillness doesn’t mean focusing on nothing but on creating an “emotionally clutter-free space and slowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question” (108). In DIG Deep, Brown encourages readers to find their own...