Less Stress, More Calm: Discover Your Unique Stress Personality and Make It Your Superpower

by Lauren Hodges

Each stress personality chapter highlights “stress resets” and unique “superpowers” to use to shift your mindset, get to know your inner voice more intimately, and learn what parts of yourself under stress might actually be used as golden opportunities for growth.

“The point of this book is to learn how to manage and control how you uniquely show up under your stress personality. Stress isn’t the problem,” writes the author.

Less Stress, More Calm isn’t just another self-help book with one-size-fits-all vague and generalized concepts. Years of research and personal experience have led author Lauren Hodges, EdD., to a local, national, and internationally successful career providing proven, adaptable, and easily implemented strategies for living a calmer, more enjoyable life with less stress.

The author’s quirky sense of humor, community compassion, scientific insight, and devotion to her field of expertise in human performance and well-being bring you to a sense of self otherwise unknown or yet understood.

Less Stress, More Calm identifies and defines eight Stress After readers identify their stress personality (or personalities – they’re not locked into one), they are provided practical and specific steps to better managing stress, Readers will learn to better recognize themselves under stress and take action to recover so they can show up as their best more often for people and relationships that matter most, at work and at home.

From reef diving in the Florida Keys to Michael Jordan to a Navy SEAL to powerful client stories and testimonies, Less Stress, More Calm is the perfect combination of serious, fun, and real-life examples of what works and what doesn’t when aiming for a life with less stress and more calm!

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

384 pages, Paperback

Published April 2, 2024

Reviews

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a goodreads win! I really only needed to read the parts that fit me but I read the whole book. Walking away when I finished I realized that there are parts and things that helped me. I had to have an MRI and after it, it dawned on me I put some of Larens ideas to use. It was over before I knew it even thought it only took 15-20 minutes.

[Elizabeth Cofield · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book explores Stress Personalities and gives insight to the science of stress personality development and how the body, naturally, responds to stress. This book is funny, insightful, and full of great inspirational nuggets. I learned so much about my own stress personality and strategies to help in moments when my stress personality wants to take over in a negative way.

[Jennifer Allred · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel seen! I loved Lauren’s voice coming through in the pages. This isn’t a stuffy, self help book. There is real science backed information and insights to how we all deal with stress. It’s real life. I am looking forward to going back through the book and working through my stress personality.

[Alison C. Lontz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, it could have been half the length and accomplished same messages. Appreciated her humor writing about things that can be tough to look at in yourself. The resets, for the most part, weren’t new; however I really liked the journaling prompts she provided.

[Tiffany Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book takes on different types of people and how to better handle those personalities. Really liked the science support but would have liked more of that to back the information.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is life altering! Incredible tools, very well laid out & presented, so timely for the increasing complexities of our times. Bought the ebook so I could constantly refer to it!