The Stress Management Handbook: A Practical Guide to Staying Calm, Keeping Cool, and Avoiding Blow-Ups

by Eva Selhub M.D.

Overview

Understand stress, uncover your triggers, calm your madness, and find your power!
 
In our search for happiness, many of us find ourselves pleasing everyone else over ourselves until we end up with feelings of resentment, frustration, and stress. Whether you’re looking for love, work, or the solutions to a problematic marriage or the pressures of facing an empty nest, The Stress Management Handbook will teach you how to speak and live from a place of love rather than a place of stress. Stress expert Dr. Eva will help you:

• Understand the stress response
• Get a hold on negative emotions
• Redirect stress for good
• Laugh and let go

These tools will teach you how to shift negativity to positivity in seconds, and finally home in on the cause of your stress and release it to create your own happiness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510751941
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	03/17/2020
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	607,532
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Eva Selhub, MD is an internationally recognized resilience expert, integrative health physician, author, speaker, scientist, and health consultant who bridges spirituality to managing stress, achieving optimal health, and finding everlasting joy. Dr. Eva engages her clients and her audiences with her powerful energy, words of wisdom, and scientific knowledge to empower others to transform their health and their lives for the better. She resides in Newtonville, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction Why Stress Is Normal ix

Chapter 1 Understand the Stress Response & Negative Emotions 1

Chapter 2 Set a Hold on Negative Emotions 15

Chapter 3 Zap Distress with Love 33

Chapter 4 Restructure Your Infrastructure 57

Chapter 5 Melt Your Mood with Meditation 75

Chapter 6 Mindfulness to Cairn Your Madness 93

Chapter 7 Redirect Stress for Good 107

Chapter 8 Stand in Your Power 123

Chapter 9 Laugh and Let Go 139

Chapter 10 Get to Compassion and Forgiveness 153

Epilogue See Your Life as a Miracle 163

Extra Charts 173

Notes 187

A Final Note from the Author 195

Acknowledgments 197

References 199

Editorial Reviews

Would you like to learn how to manage stress in an effective, scientifically sound, and practical way?  In this engaging, accessible guide, Dr. Eva Selhub explains how you can use the energy of stress for creative advantage in your life now. Highly recommend!” —Michael J. Gelb, bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
 
“The Stress Management Handbook could not be a more timely book, helping us manage though these frenetic, chaotic, and stressful times. I’ve worked in the stress management field for more than fifty years, many of those times alongside Dr. Eva Selhub, and I am delighted with this book and her ability to offer practical approaches to getting a true hold on stress that are easy to follow and laced with tinges with humor. Reading this book could truly change your life.” —Loretta Laroche, internationally acclaimed stress expert

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