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- Is stress taking over your life? - Are you worn out, flat out or
continually going all out? - Can you be more own-worse-enemy than
own-best-friend? Keeping up with life's demands can be relentless.
Stress can morph you into someone you don't want to be, living a
life you don't want to live. If you're feeling overwhelmed,
stressed out, and can't see the wood for the trees - fear not!
Stresshacking is full of simple strategies to help you: * See the
light at the end of your stress tunnel * Overcome your overwhelm *
Find breathing space in your busyness * Turn self-sabotage into
self-care * Make friends with your fears, your challenges, and
everything else that stands in your way! For nearly 20 years
mindset and wellbeing coach Louise Lloyd has been helping people to
hack stress, limits, and mindsets. She understands the challenges
people face and provides practical and effective tools to help even
the busiest of people get their life on track. It's time to get
your life, your mind, and your mojo back!
Do you ever feel you're a fraud and about to be found out? Do you
feel an expectation to keep going and to be strong? Do you ever
think what it would be like to just... 'STOP'? You're not alone.
Mental ill health impacts one in four people every year, and
professionals in high-pressure jobs are especially vulnerable. Life
is a Four-Letter Word is a mental health survival guide for
professionals, from a high-flying Big 4 accountant who's struggled
with depression, anxiety, stress and suicidal thoughts and learned
a lot along the way. Andy now advocates positive action around
mental health, working closely with business leaders across the UK
to help them build mentally healthy cultures. He is a renowned
speaker and writer on mental health, entrepreneurship and finance.
Emotional flooding-being overwhelmed by feelings-happens in
response to stress, anxiety and life's challenges. In this
client-orientated accompaniment Affect Regulation Toolbox, Carolyn
Daitch and Lissah Lorberbaum present skills and tools on how to
dial down reactivity, practise mindfulness and focus positively on
the future. Written to conquer a broad range of emotional
challenges in easily accessibly language, this book is intended to
help clients improve the quality of their everyday lives. The
workbook is split into two parts. Part I helps the reader
understand when and why emotional flooding occurs. Using vivid
stories and examples of others' triggering situations helps the
reader better understand their own triggers and how to cope with
them. Part II provides instructions for "daily stress
inoculations", a daily practice for relaxing and lowering baseline
levels of emotional reactivity. The STOP Solution is introduced as
a way of learning how to stop or lessen feeling emotionally
overwhelmed. STOP stands for Scanning thoughts, feelings and
sensations, Taking a time-out, Overcoming Initial Flooding, and
Putting tools into practise. To reinforce the effectiveness of each
tool, the workbook includes guided imagery exercises, opportunities
to create positive self-statements and space for personal
reflections after practising each tool. In addition, the workbook
points readers to the matching audio recordings to facilitate their
practice of the exercises as they go through the workbook. Both the
tools and the written and audio exercises provide a gentle and
reliable programme that leads to calm emotions, resilience and
well-being.
`The book is an ideal companion for the newly qualified teacher or
for colleagues unfamiliar with social psychological concepts and
basic communication theory' - ELAN Teaching with Confidence shows
how to combat the stress and low self-esteem suffered by many
teachers. Denis Lawrence focuses on the relationship between stress
and self-esteem, and sets out a programme of easy-to-use everyday
strategies to reduce the problem. The author, previously Chief
Educational Psychologist for Somerset, has worked with teachers in
Somerset, Cornwall and Australia. He has extensive experience of
running workshops on the topics of self- esteem enhancement,
behavioural difficulties, counselling skills and stress management.
This book is now available in paperback. While many of us may seek
traditional therapy to help us deal with life's difficulties, Zen,
according to David Brazier's "Zen Therapy", offers an alternative -
dragon-riding lessons. Psychologist and best selling author Robert
Wicks is a specialist in the field of secondary stress and counsels
people who help others - psychologists, doctors, nurses, and
ministers. In "Riding the Dragon", Wicks offers dragon riding
lessons, drawing upon both Eastern and Western traditions. In this
warm, compassionate, and highly personal guidebooks, Wicks offers
encouragement and 10 lessons to help people engage their problems
and grow through them. The 10 lessons include: prune carefully and
often; recognize your renewal zones; catch the slide; seek hidden
possibilities; engage the darkness; pair clarity and kindness; find
love in small deeds; seek perspective daily; build a barrier of
simplicity; and come home more often. Wicks has shown a generation
the links between psychology and spirituality, working from the
perspective that difficult times can offer striking moments of
grace.
Millions of people have enjoyed Richard Carlson's national
bestsellers that show how not to let the small things in life get
the best of them. Now, in "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at Work," he
shows readers how to interact more peaceably and joyfully with
colleagues, clients, and bosses. Spending forty hours or more a
week in an office, along with rush deadlines, heavy workloads, and
daily dilemmas, can make working a very stressful experience.
Richard Carlson reveals tips that will transform your outlook at
the office, easing stress there and also leading to a happier life
at home.
Journaling Techniques for Growing, Healing, and Creativity "When
Lynda [Monk] talks about her own journaling practice, a spirit of
flexibility infuses her approach."-Rebecca Kochenderfer,
Journaling.com #1 Best Seller in Writing Skills Writing Guides The
Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry
and anxiety from psychotherapist Eric Maisel. As well as expert
writing tips from Lynda Monk, Director of the International
Association for Journal Writing. Journal Writing for High
Self-Esteem. This is the next-generation book on journaling
techniques that introduces a younger generation to the immense
benefits of journaling and provides all journal writers with the
tools they need to grow, heal, and deepen their personal writing
experience. Utilize Therapeutic Writing. Journal writing can
promote individual healing, creativity, and community-building. The
Great Book of Journaling offers multiple perspectives on journaling
techniques in an easy-to-use, practical format, along with
providing a comprehensive introduction to various techniques and
methods for deepening your personal writing. Learn from the Best.
We've rounded up 40 of the top journal experts in the world to
explain exactly what journal writing can do for you! The Great Book
of Journaling is full of practical tips, evidence-based research,
and rich anecdotes from their coaching, teaching, therapy work with
journal writers, or their personal journal writing. The Great Book
of Journaling can help: Create high self-esteem, self-love, and
self-confidence Improve your health and your sense of wellbeing
Calm your worry and anxiety Serve your creative needs Deepen your
personal writing Readers of books on journal writing such as
Mindfulness Journal, The Self-Discovery Journal, or No Worries will
love The Great Book of Journaling.
In It for the Long Haul helps social justice change agents stop
burning out and reclaim their energy to create meaningful change.
Social justice change agents often feel exhausted and overwhelmed
by the urgent need for change; yet, they can get stuck in
hopelessness and despair. They are continuously running on empty,
having to push themselves to keep going, afraid of burnout or
slowly fading away from passion fatigue. Social justice change
agent Kathy Obear almost dropped out of social change work several
times in her career due to the depth of burnout and passion fatigue
she experienced. In It for the Long Haul teaches other agents how
to recognize warning signs of burnout and take better care of
themselves. Through engaging stories and practical tips, Obear
encourages agents to recommit to self-care so they can be of
greater service and spark real change in the world.
As technology increases your accessibility, it becomes harder to
mute the background noise of your life and receive God's guidance.
Joyce Meyer calls this OVERLOAD, when the demands of your busy life
become all-consuming and overwhelming. But to experience the joyful
life God has planned, you must make time to focus on His Word. Then
you'll receive His healing calmness and gain the strength to take
on life's challenges, from physical ailments to problems in
relationships. Through the practical advice and Scriptural wisdom
in this book, you'll learn how to unplug and free yourself from
burdens that weigh you down. You'll gain simple, effective tips for
better rest and stress management and discover the fulfilling life
you were meant to lead.
This is a new addition to the popular 'Introduction to Coping with'
series of self-help booklets. Written by one of the authors of the
popular self-help title Overcoming Traumatic Stress, An
Introduction to Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress offers valuable
guidance for those who have gone through catastrophic life events.
Such events can range from train disasters and car accidents to
natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, from events
such as severe electric shocks to acts of violence and abuse.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a common psychological condition
resulting from such events and arises when a person's coping
resources have been completely overwhelmed. This self-help guide
uses CBT strategies to help the reader to change their reactions to
the trauma and find new, effective ways of coping with and
overcoming traumatic stress. This practical booklet is also an
ideal resource for health professionals and carers.
Over the past 16 years, new theories and models have emerged in the
stress and anxiety knowledge base regarding the unique forms
associated with performance. Existing theories have been applied in
creative and helpful ways to better explicate relationships between
stress and anxiety with performance. Recently, more sophisticated
statistical strategies have been applied to data collected with
performers, and additional, safe and expedient strategies for
managing stress and anxiety have surfaced. Despite these new
advances, the field has been lacking an up-to-date and practical
text for undergraduate and graduate students in performing or
performance-mentoring programs. Managing Performance Stress
examines psychological and psychophysiological models and theories
that explain causes of anxiety and stress. An easy-to-use reference
work for athletes, musicians, dancers and actors as well as those
who devise and conduct their training programs, the book presents
exercises, coaching devices, and strategies for conquering stress
and anxiety. It is an invaluable resource for those who are
performers, will be performers, or who are preparing to mentor,
coach or teach performers. The principles enunciated in Managing
Performance Stress apply equally to the musician holding an oboe
and the athlete holding a baseball bat. The issues explored and the
theories, principles, models, hypotheses discussed all bear upon
and clarify arousal, stress and anxiety related to artistic and
sport performance, irrespective of its kind.
Decades of research have unequivocally shown that life stress is a
central factor in the onset and course of almost every psychiatric
disorder. However, the processes by which stress influences mental
health are complex, and the integration of the myriad of biological
and psychological systems involved requires a multidisciplinary
perspective. Fortunately, scientists working from diverse vantage
points have made huge advances in unpacking the complexities of
stress-disorder relations. The Oxford Handbook of Stress and Mental
Health provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the science
of stress and mental health. Topics covered include assessment
issues, the role of stress in various mental disorders,
developmental influences and individual difference factors that
predict reactivity to stress, and treatment of stress-related
mental health problems. Internationally recognized scholars in the
field of stress and stress-related disorders have contributed their
diverse expertise, providing both depth and breadth in terms of
understanding stress and mental health. Chapters 1 to 4 provide a
critical discussion of assessment issues in the domains of stress
exposure and stress response. Chapters 5 to 14 review the relation
of stress exposures to a broad range of mental health outcomes
across the lifespan. Chapters 15 to 25 are concerned with
understanding how the stress response unfolds at both psychological
and neurobiological levels. Lastly, Chapters 26 to 33 addresses
stress adaptation and resilience, as well as evidence-based
treatments for stress and stress-related disorder. This volume will
constitute an invaluable resource for students, established
scientists, and clinicians looking for a comprehensive treatment of
the topic of stress and mental health.
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