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Optimal Stress de Carol Scott

Optimal Stress

Autor Carol Scott
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 noi 2009
Find the optimal level of stress and wellness for your life and career–the essential guide for women If you′re one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the most important emotional and physical problems you face every day. Stress is inevitable, but this book shows you how to embrace it and use it. The key lies in learning how to transform harmful reactions into healthy responses. Optimal Stress offers a new way to view, organize, and shape your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or demand in your life. Its approach helps you develop a crucial understanding of what stress is, what it is not, and most importantly, how to find the right stress–health balance. Clarifies the link between stress and medical disorders such as: heart disease, immune disorders, diabetes, and gastrointestinal issues Explains three key principles–Priorities, Passions, and Purpose–to help you understand and handle stress Shares data as well as other women′s true stories, feelings, and insights about stress Reveals that stress is a process, with emotional, psychological, behavioral, biological and physical components Helps you find a renewed sense of meaning, coherence, and balance in your life through discovery of your personal BestStress Zone Gets you in touch with your unique physical and personality traits and life circumstances that contribute to stress Don′t let stress overwhelm you–discover Optimal Stress and regain balance in your life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470068519
ISBN-10: 0470068515
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 167 x 242 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

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Women (30+) struggling to balance career, life, and relationships

Descriere

stop stressing about stress "Dr. Scott has broken down all the important pieces to stress and what it does to your mind, body, and spirit. This is a great book to help you live and stay in your best stress zone. Kudos for such an important book for understanding and dealing with stress without drugs!" —Ruth Klein, M.S., author of The De–Stress Diva′s Guide to Life If you′re one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the most important emotional and physical problems you face every day. The reality is that life can often be hectic, tough, demanding, mind–numbing, and energy–sapping. You can′t avoid many situations and events, but you can learn to embrace them and use them in creating a specific plan. The key lies in understanding what stress is and transforming harmful reactions into healthy responses. Optimal Stress offers a new way to view, organize, and shape your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or demand in your life. Its approach helps you develop a crucial understanding of what stress is, what it is not, and, most important, how to find the right stress–health balance for you. You′ll gain a clear understanding of the three key principles that govern the way you experience stress, recognize the negative stressors that are most harmful to you, and learn how to: Distinguish the biological, behavioral, psychological, and emotional components of stress Recognize, identify, and cope with the symptoms of stress Measure your risk for stress–related illness Cope with the unique impact of stress on women and reduce it Understand how both good and bad stress can work for you Develop self–care strategies to nurture and defend yourself against harmful stress Learn how to relax at home or work in ten minutes or less Don′t let stress overwhelm you. Discover Optimal Stress and regain balance in your life.

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stop stressing about stress

"Dr. Scott has broken down all the important pieces to stress and what it does to your mind, body, and spirit. This is a great book to help you live and stay in your best stress zone. Kudos for such an important book for understanding and dealing with stress without drugs!"
--Ruth Klein, M.S., author of The De-Stress Diva's Guide to Life

If you're one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the most important emotional and physical problems you face every day. The reality is that life can often be hectic, tough, demanding, mind-numbing, and energy-sapping. You can't avoid many situations and events, but you can learn to embrace them and use them in creating a specific plan. The key lies in understanding what stress is and transforming harmful reactions into healthy responses.

"Optimal Stress" offers a new way to view, organize, and shape your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or demand in your life. Its approach helps you develop a crucial understanding of what stress is, what it is not, and, most important, how to find the right stress-health balance for you.

You'll gain a clear understanding of the three key principles that govern the way you experience stress, recognize the negative stressors that are most harmful to you, and learn how to:

Distinguish the biological, behavioral, psychological, and emotional components of stress

Recognize, identify, and cope with the symptoms of stress

Measure your risk for stress-related illness

Cope with the unique impact of stress on women and reduce it

Understand how both good and bad stress can work for you

Develop self-care strategies to nurture and defend yourself against harmful stress

Learn how to relax at home or work in ten minutes or less

Don't let stress overwhelm you. Discover "Optimal Stress" and regain balance in your life.

Cuprins

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction Part One Stop Stressing about Stress. 1 Understanding Stress and It Can Work for You. 2 Measuring the Risk: Stress, Health, and Wellness. 3 Women and Stress: The Unique Impact of Stress on Women and How to Reduce It. 4 What is Causing You Stress. 5 What′s Really Important in Your Life: Defining Your Purpose, Pasions, and Priorities. 6 What Is in Your Way: Change, Emotions, and Putting it All Together. Part Two Optimal Stress: Living in Your Beststress Zone. 7 Discovering Your BestStress Zone and Achieving the BestStress Balance. 8 Living in the BestStress Zone: Relationships, Roles, and Common Pitfalls. 9 Defending and Nurturing Your BestStress Zone: Self–Care Strategies, Relaxation, and The Power Pause. Selected References. Index.

Notă biografică

Carol J. Scott, M.D., M.S.Ed., FACEP, is a stress–management strategist for organizations and individuals. Dr. Scott trained in internal medicine at Duke University and emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins. She is a highly sought–after keynote speaker, coach, and consultant for such clients as Microsoft, McDonald′s, Civil Service Employees Association NY (CSEA), IBM, Merrill Lynch, Discovery Communications, and Johnson & Johnson. She has spoken for the Florida, Pennsylvania, and California Governor′s Conference for Women. She has been a keynote speaker at the Working Mother 100 Best Companies Work Life Congress. Her work has been featured in Fast Company and she has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post . She has been heard on several radio shows, including the WOR Saturday Morning Show with Joe Bartlett , the Bev Smith Show , Martha Stewart Living Radio, and Doug Stephan′s Good Day . She is married with two sons.