Everyday situations can make life tense and difficult, but you can overcome anything by using tact and tactics. Keith E. Bogost, MD, a retired psychiatrist, knows from experience that it's natural for people to let obstacles affect their lives. Symptoms can include emotional issues, health problems, and worse.

In this handbook to tactical living, he shares strategies that anyone can use to achieve their goals. You can learn how to

relieve stress
live a happier and healthier home life
deal with job pressures
increase the level of interpersonal relationships
develop a positive attitude.

You'll also find graphs and diagrams to help you understand how to go about coping with life's problems. Many of the strategies involve common sense, but others are more complex.

Dr. Bogost helped his patients throughout a twenty-year career, and his methods continue to be applicable; they just need to be learned and implemented. Avoid the unpleasant consequences that arise from making the same mistakes over and over again with the Tactical Living Handbook.

Australia's bestselling anxiety and mental health expert, Bev Aisbett, tackles a growing mental health emergency: burnout. Burnout happens when we take on too much, when we think we can do the impossible, at the cost of our wellbeing, our health and even our quality of life. Although the term is often casually tossed about, burnout is no joke - it can impact every area of your life and leave you depleted in every way. After two years of the pandemic and lockdowns, working from home, homeschooling, widespread stress and being on our computers and devices 24/7 and constantly available, the danger of burnout for so many of us is all too real. It can happen to anyone. Using humour, straightforward language and her signature illustrations, Bev clearly explains what burnout is, who is at risk, how to recognise the danger signs and, finally, how to step back from the brink, providing insight and techniques to ease burnout and stop yourself going up in smoke.

Do you struggle with typical symptoms of stress such as headaches, difficulty sleeping, irritability, fatigue, or muscle pain? Perhaps you experience more serious stress-related problems such as ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, frequent illness, fibromyalgia, or any number of other chronic conditions. Chronic stress seems to affect everyone, but it doesn't have to be that way...for you. The World is NOT a Stressful Place puts in your hands an effective and easy to learn approach for managing stress. Thousands have learned and internalized the principles and practices found in this book and as a result, have learned how to live happier, more peaceful, and productive lives. In this book you will learn: * the real reason you experience stress * the dangerous effects of chronic stress on your health and well-being * how to manage your stress * useful ways to prevent stress * how to increase productivity and experience greater levels of inner peace * simple things you can do to control unnecessary worrying, guilt, anxiety, and fear * how to do everything "on your plate" and "enjoy the journey" at the same time The World is NOT a Stressful Place is a book that will help you feel a lot better! For more than 20 years, Dr. Michael Olpin has been researching, writing, consulting and teaching about stress management, optimum health, and high-level wellness. He has taught stress management and similar courses at several universities and for private companies around the country. He is the co-author of the college textbook titled Stress Management for Life. Michael is currently a Professor of Health Promotion at Webe

Ready to take back control?

We all have stress in our lives. It could be a deadline at work, a major change such as a house move, or a relationship breakdown. Whatever it is, it can leave you feeling out of control.

In "Brilliant Stress Management" Mike Clayton helps you work out what it is that makes you stressed and shows you how you can tackle it. Whether you crumble under pressure, get angry, or simply bury your head in the sand, this book provides effective techniques to help you take the edge off and even channel your stress in a positive way.

Brilliant Outcomes

• Know how to create a calm and stress-free environment
• Make better use of your time - never again get overwhelmed
• Identify stress in yourself and others - and know what to do about it

'Engaging, practical and packed with simple to achieve exercises that really do help you combat stress.'

Matthew Cole Clinical Director, York Stress & Trauma Centre

'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, Feast A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom. Wabi sabi ("wah-bi sah-bi") is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity and accept the transient nature of all things. With roots in zen and the way of tea, the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi is more relevant than ever for modern life, as we search for new ways to approach life's challenges and seek meaning beyond materialism. Wabi sabi is a refreshing antidote to our fast-paced, consumption-driven world, which will encourage you to slow down, reconnect with nature, and be gentler on yourself. It will help you simplify everything, and concentrate on what really matters. From honouring the rhythm of the seasons to creating a welcoming home, from reframing failure to ageing with grace, wabi sabi will teach you to find more joy and inspiration throughout your perfectly imperfect life. This book is the definitive guide to applying the principles of wabi sabi to transform every area of your life, and finding happiness right where you are.

No other book has studied the phenomenon of burnout among child- and youth-care workers across so many cultures using a standard measure to pinpoint the dimensions of culture that increase or decrease burnout. This work examines the problem across 13 cultures, including England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Israel, Canada, and the United States. Among the consistent themes that emerge are workload, work environment, social support, and coping skills. Recommendations for prevention, remediation, and recovery are offered based on research findings and a theoretical approach emphasizing positive psychology.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers studying burnout in any population, as well as those focused on the more general topic of cross-cultural psychology. Human service professionals, especially those in the field of child- and youth-care work, will also find the book helpful. It will appeal also to professors and students in higher education programs training human service workers in the fields of psychology, social work, and counseling.

How to Calm Your Mind offers a toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal how the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm. When productivity expert Chris Bailey discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break. Productivity advice works - and we need it now more than ever - but it's just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don't just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental resources at our disposal not only to do good work, but also to live a good life. Among the topics How to Calm Your Mind covers are: - How analogue and digital worlds affect calm and anxiety in different ways; - How our desire for dopamine breeds anxiety; - How hidden sources of stress can be tamed by a 'stimulation fast'; - How 'busyness' is as much a state of mind as it is an actual state of life. The pursuit of calm ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused and deliberate - while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives overall. In an anxious world, achieving calm is the best lifehack around.