Kristen Ulmer
Kristen Ulmer is thought leader, facilitator and fear specialist who radically challenges existing norms around the subject of this deeply misunderstood emotion. Having spent 15 years being labeled fearless by the outdoor industry—named the best woman extreme skier in the world for 12 of those years and voted the North American most extreme woman athlete in all disciplines—Ulmer seeks to end our humanity-wide war against fear, which will not only resolve many common, epidemic problems we face, but allow us the greatest chance to achieve our whole-mind potential. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, NPR, More Magazine, Outside Magazine (4 times), and USA Today (4 times) to name but a few. Her book; The Art of Fear; Why Conquering Fear Won’t Work and What to Do Instead, will be released on June 13, 2017. Ulmer lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband Kirk Jellum and their two savannah cats.
2 Books Written
A revolutionary guide to acknowledging fear and developing the tools we need to build a healthy relationship with this confusing emotion — and use it as a positive force in our lives . We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit? This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer’s remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear . Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for twelve years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing book, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems—and that in fact, the only true issue we face with fear is our misguided reaction to it (not the fear itself). Rebuilding our experience with fear from the ground up, Ulmer starts by exploring why we’ve come to view it as a negative. From here, she unpacks fear and shows it to be just one of 10,000 voices that make up our reality, here to help us come alive alongside joy, love, and gratitude. Introducing a mindfulness tool called “Shift,” Ulmer teaches readers how to experience fear in a simpler, more authentic way, transforming our relationship with this emotion from that of a draining battle into one that’s in line with our true nature. Influenced by Ulmer’s own complicated relationship with fear and her over 15 years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear—empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future.
Pourquoi avez-vous eu envie d’écrire ce livre?Pendant toute ma carrière, j’ai vécu au quotidien avec la peur et, contrairement aux apparences, cela ne s’est pas fait sans difficultés. Je partage aujourd’hui mon expérience de la relation à la peur afin d’aider les personnes que je rencontre. À qui s’adresse-t-il?À toute personne qui ressent le besoin ou l’envie de mieux se connaître pour résoudre des problèmes d’angoisse, de crises de panique, d’hésitation chronique ou pour surmonter des situations d’échec. Qu’allons-nous y découvrir?Vous découvrirez comment on réagit à la peur et apprendrez à porter un nouveau regard sur cette émotion. Vous verrez que le problème ne vient pas de la peur elle-même, mais de notre obstination à vouloir la réduire au silence. Enfin, vous découvrirez comment l’outil « Aller de l’avant, le jeu des 10 000 sagesses » peut vous servir à faire la paix avec la peur. Pourquoi pensez-vous que nous allons l’apprécier?Contrairement à la position dominante qui vise à vous débarrasser de vos peurs, et peut se traduire par des années de thérapie, vous apprendrez à les laisser s’exprimer pour pouvoir mieux les apprivoiser et en faire des alliées qui vous permettront rapidement d’aller de l’avant.