Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me Audiobook (Free)

Charlamagne Tha God, NY Times bestselling writer of Black Privilege and always provocative cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking clear of your concerns and anxieties.

Fear is keeping you back again. It’s time to turn the desks and channel your fears to really fuel your success.

Being “shook” is greater than a rap lyric for Charlamagne, it’s his mission to conquer. While it may seem like he’s ahead of the game, he’s actually plagued by anxieties, such about Shook One: Stress Playing Techniques on Me as the fear of dropping his roots, worries of being a negative dad, and the fear of being a terrible hubby. Shook One chronicles his trip to beat those doubts and shows a path that you too can take to conquer the anxieties that may be holding you back.

Ironically, Charlamagne’s concern with failure—of falling in to the life of stagnation or crime that caught up so a lot of his friends and family in his hometown of Moncks Part—continues to be the fuel which has propelled him to success. However, even after achieving national prominence being a radio character, Charlamagne still discovered himself paralyzed by stress and anxiety and distrust. Today, in Shook One, he’s operating through these problems—many of which he traces back to social PTSD—with help from mentors, close friends, and therapy. Becoming anxious doesn’t serve the same purpose any longer. Through therapy, he’s determining ways to get on the irrational worries that received’t take him anywhere positive.

Charlamange hopes Shook One can be a proactive approach: Getting help is your right. Therapy and showing weakness are not always easy topics, but if you go directly to the gym 3 or 4 times a week, why can’t you place that same effort and energy into getting mentally strong?

“I know bad things are still going to eventually me. Struggles which i can’t even conceive of today remain likely to trip me up from time to time down the road. Cops are still going to pull me over for no cause. I’m still likely to worry about my kids. The anxieties are never fully likely to go away. Before, my concentrate was always on things that trigger stress. Moving forward, its’ likely to become on the things that bless.”