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"More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn't bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier--if we learn how to embrace it"--
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"In our always-on, productivity-addicted lifestyles, we tend to think of the pursuit of fun as being indulgent, even immature and childish. When we do find the time to relax or care for ourselves, we tend to turn to activities that are not actually restorative: binging Netflix, scrolling through Twitter, or indulging our FOMO on Instagram. Through years of research, journalist Catherine Price has learned the truth: far from being frivolous or a distraction,...
3) How to relax
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Parallax Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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116 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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English
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"How to Relax is part of The Mindfulness Essentials series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, introducing beginners and reminding seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. Pocket-sized, with original two color illustrations by Jason DeAntonis, How to Relax shows how critical it is to regularly interrupt the hub-bub and routine of our lives to stop, relax mindfully, and recharge. Thich Nhat Hanh says that when we...
5) Full catastrophe living: using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness
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English
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The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years. Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work--which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology--shows...
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Publisher
Hunter House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
2nd ed.
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xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Based on the author's years of experience with anxiety, both personally and professionally as a seasoned psychologist, "Dancing with Fear uses a recovery approach to treating a widespread problem. Dr. Foxman explains anxiety's complex origins and shows how it is largely a learned reaction to stress overload in sensitive people. He offers an array of self-help strategies for combating panic attacks, phobias, avoidant behavior, worrying, unwanted obsessions,...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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244 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks...
11) How to stay sane
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Series
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Picador
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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171 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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English
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The School of Life is dedicated to exploring life's big questions. We don't have all the answers, but we will direct you towards a variety of useful ideas that are guaranteed to stimulate, provoke, and console. An Economist Best Book of the Year. Everyone accepts the importance of physical health; isn't it just as important to aim for the mental equivalent? Philippa Perry has come to the rescue with How to Stay Sane -- a maintenance manual for the...
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Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Success in work, love, and life depends on developing habits that activate the powerful prefrontal cortex when we need it most. Unfortunately, under stress, the human brain tends to revert to emotional habits we forged in toddlerhood: blame, denial, avoidance, reacting to a jerk like a jerk, and turning our connections into cold shouldersor worse. In Soar Above, renowned relationship expert Dr. Steven Stosny offers a ground-breaking formula for building...
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American Screening Corporation
Pub. Date
[2012]
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xxvii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Provides quick, comprehensive solutions to any event that triggers a stress response. The sections touch on all areas of stress in modern life, and offer real-world remedies.
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Members of the Bear family commit themselves to so many time-consuming activities that the resulting stress brings on a crisis and makes them admit that there are only so many hours in a day.
19) Stress fractures
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Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
©1990
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273 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xiii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"From eight-time bestselling author Jon Gordon comes a spiritual fable about the power of faith, hope, and love. Meet Jay and Kay. They're twins, and like many teenagers their age, they're dealing with stress and anxiety. One day on their way to school, they have a nice conversation with their old family friend and youth soccer coach, Mr. Erwin, who shows them a special garden he created in his backyard. The garden serves as both a place and a metaphor...
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