Get a Life - Sane Wisdom for an Insane World is a compilation of columns written by Loretta LaRoche, an international stress management consultant and humorist. They were written over the last several years and are focused on societal observations that are often absurd and stress provoking. Loretta offers not only her viewpoint, but also practical, optimistic and fun ways to deal with our daily lives

For the last 20 years, Loretta LaRoche has been delighting readers, audiences, and PBS television viewers with her wacky and wise insights about life, love, and the insanity of the modern world. Now, in her most deeply personal book yet, Loretta addresses the most exciting challenge that we all face--one that she now finds herself facing every day: "How do we age well? And can humor, dignity, honesty, wisdom, and other virtues ease the path? " Our society is youth obsessed: Beauty products, special exercises, designer vitamins, plastic surgery, and certain medications are promoted as "the" ways to enhance life. While these formulas may have some merit, they're not enough to prepare us to have a rich, authentic life filled with passion and juiciness. Why do we wait until we're almost dead before we focus on how to age well? Every school system in the country should be preparing us for the inevitable process of aging and how to do it well. Our parents, our schools, and the media should all be teaching us that aging is a process that begins at birth . . . not something to be feared and avoided. Those who continue to be hardy and live long and healthy lives understand that the real path to vitality requires connection, playfulness, flexibility, grace, tenacity, resiliency, curiosity, learning, and good humor. With her trademark humor and practical wisdom, Loretta tackles how to live a long, healthy, juicy life--using herself and many of her friends and mentors as metaphors. Filled with practical advice, lifestyle skills, wisdom, and spirituality, "Kick Up Your Heels . . . "is a mental health spa that will inspire you and your family to live with joy, harmony, and peace while you still have the time

This book will not only help you reduce your stress levels but will also bring passion and fun into your life. Internationally renowned stress coach and consultant Loretta LaRoche's techniques are a brilliant blend of good old-fashioned common sense and the most contemporary research into brain chemistry, psychology and mind-body studies. Filled with easy-to-follow exercises this book gives readers dozens of proven techniques for developing the most important character traits needed to live an intense, happy, successful life: Life is Short will help you shift your focus away from the self-destructive towards the truly important things in life. It will help you learn not to take yourself too seriously and to enjoy your life, each and every day. During her work as stress coach Loretta has seen thousands of people live their lives as if they are in a waiting room, hoping that their turn will come up next. This book teaches you how to grab life by the horns, right now. It's the perfect book for anyone who is still waiting for that special occasion before they will wear their favourite shoes, use their best wine glasses or allow themselves a bite of their favourite pudding. Remember that every day you are alive is a special occasion!

Loretta LaRoche has been called "the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"--and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this entertaining book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper. "Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left" is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today's ever-increasing stress levels--it's a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter. In sections such as "If You Don't Have to Suffer--Don't Practice," "My Mother the CEO," and "I'm Not Afraid of Heights, Just Widths," Loretta dismantles our American predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives using the healing power of the absurd.