Manage Your Stress: Overcoming Stress in the Modern World

by Joe Shrand, Leigh Devine

This self-care guide from the experts at Harvard Medical School can help you reduce stress levels, lower health risks?and live a calmer, happier life…This book aims to give readers a full understanding of the how and why of the human stress response. While once a vital ancient survival tool, our biological stress response may now be in overdrive when confronted by the modern world around us. Research has repeatedly shown that stress can cause physical illness if undetected and unmanaged. And is not always your stress that gets in the way of your success and happiness. Usually it is someone else's stress that gets in the way of your success and happiness. What can you do to help someone else with their stress so you can both be more successful?Dr. Shrand addresses the deeper biological and survival reasons we experience stress, exploring ways to relieve your own stress but at the same time breaking new ground when he demonstrates how helping someone else with their stress actually helps you to be more successful -- because you are seen as benefactor, a person of value. The underlying biological roots of stress have to do with survival -- we feel stress when we worry we are inadequate to the task ahead of us. If we feel inadequate can we still retain our value to the group on which we depend, or will be cast out to fend for ourselves in a world of predators. Managing your stress in the modern-day world has to include managing the stress of those around you, and this book will show you how!This book provides readers with psychological and physical strategies necessary to keep stress from undermining their health, their joy, and the happiness of those around them. These simple and practical strategies help relieve our stress, and the stress of those around us.

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 26, 2012

Reviews

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for a primer and general introduction on how to reduce stress and how stress can impact us in various ways: our minds, our bodies, our genes, etc.

Worth taking a look if you are intrigued by stress or want another view point on how to manage it. The book covers quite a bit from sleep hygiene, diet, the importance of exercise, and the impact of a positive mental attitude (not an exhaustive list!).

The book is incredibly accessible, and the author does well to begin every section with a relatable, real-life example, along with examples of what he has seen in practice and the recommendations he has provided to his patients.

3-star rating was given because the book is older (2012, over 10 years old if you can believe it!), covered a lot of what I felt I already knew, and though he provided good examples, the writing style was repetitive for me. Still, would recommend this to anyone looking to be acquainted with the topic or was interested in the impact of stress.

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent primer. I basically found that I was doing a lot of the things they recommended, but it was a good reminder. There was also a lot of science about brain chemistry in this book, which was new information for me. I really enjoyed reading that portion of the book. There were many sections that were useful, including a section on which foods/vitamins are good for dealing with stress.

This book was also geared more towards parents, making it less applicable to me.

Still, I'd recommend this to someone looking for basic information.

[Skyqueen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth reading. The overwhelming new thing I learned was that stress can be inherited!! I knew it changed your brain (shrinks it), but I didn't know that people as young as 14 under stress are already showing signs of physical changes to their carotid artery.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know if this book really gave me many practical ways to overcome stress but it was interesting to read about some of the physical reactions the body has to stress. Also, I read this during one of the most stressful time of the year for me.

[Anna Schmunk · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn’t find this book to be particularly helpful or adding anything I either haven’t already heard. However, the author does a really great job explaining what the stress response is and how to curb it if you’re just getting started on learning about stress.

[Abhi Bhaskar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, easy read- nice orientation to stress- its causes, symptoms and solutions. Should be the first book to read when starting out to find more about stress.

[Chris Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

A surprisingly profound find as I purchased it on the fly at the local drug store over lunch one day. This book is very easy to read, yet contains so much good information regarding managing stress. I felt that each chapter was eye opening and thought provoking as it presented the biological and emotional effects of too much stress. That education process was then coupled with common sense techniques to reduce the ongoing modern stress that has a cumulative, negative effect on us.

[Iskandar Syah Ismail · Rating 4 out of 5]

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