The author asks, "Will you let me prove to you that the primary health and life-saving discovery fully explained in Mastering Hidden Stress is true, and that I wrote it for you?" Dr. Lovelace believes that you will get that evidence when the results of the "self-helpful" assessment you complete in Chapter One accurately predicts the results of the assessment you complete in Chapter Two. He asks, "How can you protect yourself and all that you love when you are unaware of the most serious lifestyle threat to your physical and mental health, relationships, and financial security, and you don't know what causes that threat?" He hopes to be of service by showing that you have that subconscious strain and that the reasons (for example, major life changes) stress management experts give you for having mental stress are "deadly illusions." They are dangerous distractions that aren't its sources any more than curses make you sick. The root cause is like a germ. You are unable to see, hear, or feel it. Most of your obvious stress and what's hidden from you are caused by a specific group of 13 honestly mistaken thoughts that infects essentially every adult and took Lovelace almost 50 years to identify. How you show caring for yourself and how much well-deserved affection you have for yourself determine how often that group of 13 untrue and unconscious thoughts attacks you. More and clearly undeserved assaults inside of you make more stress. By practicing (perfection isn't required) a unique cognitive-behavioral skill, the Stress Mastery 3-Step Path, added to the remarkably-insightful explanation of personality, Transactional Analysis (TA), you can overpower the previously-unknown essential source of both subconscious and surface (evident) distress. You will secure and keep the accurate kind of affection for yourself and much more of it, to secure and keep considerable relief. Mastering Hidden Stress also provides confidence building assistance with rampant self-sabotage, hurtful eating and too little exercising, and passive or micro aggressions (perceived indirect affronts and insults). There are tests for obvious and hidden stress, self-affect or self-esteem, psychological denial, as well as unhealthy dependencies and addiction. Even more important, this text gives science and clinical practice-based evidence that what its author writes is both accurate and new. That proof is built-in.