This book explores the root causes of stress. It offers solutions and alternatives without resorting to meditation. It discusses multi-faceted aspects of stress: physical, emotional, and spiritual. It examines stressors found in child and parental relationships, societal stress and suicides. There is increased stress in the workplace and greater sleep deprivation. It also focuses on food choices and how allergic sensitivities play a part in the development of stress, as well as the role that GMOs, pollution, soil depletion, the EPA, and toxins play in the development of stress. This book offers a way to rate your own stress numerically based on work and lifestyle. It suggests drug-free solutions using herbs and/or homeopathic remedies as life style changes from meditation to mindfulness.