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Stress Less: Stop Stressing, Start Living
Yoga teacher and veteran author Kate Hanley shares her expert advice on how to reduce and prevent stress with over 100 simple and inspirational exercises.Eight out of ten Americans report being stressed. In Stress Less , you can learn how to conquer stress and find inner peace with these practical mindfulness exercises. Each exercise can help you pause, evaluate your mental state, and pull yourself out of a heightened state of anxiety and back down to a calm, clear-minded base. Each page has a prompt that can give your mind, body, and heart a moment of peace in a world of chaos.
- GenresSelf HelpNonfiction
208 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2017
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About the author
Kate Hanley
15 books51 followersAs a writer, I cover ways to take better care of yourself so that you can be a force for good in the world. (I also do that as a podcaster with my daily podcast, How to Be a Better Person).
As a reader, my heart beats faster for historical fiction and memoir. I have writer crushes on Mary Karr, Anne Lamott, Ann Patchett, Diana Gabaldon, and Jeanne Auel. I also like some male writers, I promise. Particularly, at the moment, Sherman Alexie.
I live in Providence, Rhode Island (home of tolerance, cheer, and clam cakes) with my husband, two kids, and a rescue dog named Cookie.
As a reader, my heart beats faster for historical fiction and memoir. I have writer crushes on Mary Karr, Anne Lamott, Ann Patchett, Diana Gabaldon, and Jeanne Auel. I also like some male writers, I promise. Particularly, at the moment, Sherman Alexie.
I live in Providence, Rhode Island (home of tolerance, cheer, and clam cakes) with my husband, two kids, and a rescue dog named Cookie.
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April 14, 2023
This book gives little tidbits of advice about reducing stress, living with kindness and compassion, and finding ways to alleviate tension. Most of the advice is commonplace, but presented in a fresh way that makes you think a little differently about it.
I loved the design and layout of the book. The blue color scheme is soothing and pretty. Each page has a prompt or activity that you can do to find ease, remember to breathe, and release your stress. They include things like taking a mindful walk, tidying a small area of your home, or enjoying a favorite book. All simple things that are easy to do and don't cost any money, but they have a big impact on your mental health.
This is a lovely book, and very helpful for managing anxiety and stress!
I loved the design and layout of the book. The blue color scheme is soothing and pretty. Each page has a prompt or activity that you can do to find ease, remember to breathe, and release your stress. They include things like taking a mindful walk, tidying a small area of your home, or enjoying a favorite book. All simple things that are easy to do and don't cost any money, but they have a big impact on your mental health.
This is a lovely book, and very helpful for managing anxiety and stress!
June 25, 2019
Stress Less is a cute little book of 100 meditation and relaxation exercises to keep you mindful and hopefully less stressed. While reading, I kind of realized that I unintentionally do a lot of these things anyways, which was encouraging. They didn't go into detail for many of them, but I don't think they really needed to. I'll definitely flip through this book again when I'm feeling stressed, or remember some of the tidbits that stuck with me.
As someone who's recently gotten into witchcraft and pagan stuff, this book really fits in line with those beliefs as well. Staying in tune with your mind and body helps you stay in tune with the universe around you.
My one complaint is that there were no page numbers. I understand why they wouldn't do that... but I still missed them.
As someone who's recently gotten into witchcraft and pagan stuff, this book really fits in line with those beliefs as well. Staying in tune with your mind and body helps you stay in tune with the universe around you.
My one complaint is that there were no page numbers. I understand why they wouldn't do that... but I still missed them.
March 15, 2018
'In everyone's life, at sometime, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.'
I got the paperback verison from the shop The Works and it's a great little book. It has a 100 different exercises which you can do to release stress. Each one has a quote, which I loved. It's a great little book that you can either carry around with you or keep dipping back in as and when you wish.
What I also loved was the questions it asks about how you think and how and what you see around you such as this one -Stressful situations - 'what were the triggers that set me off?'
It also mentions journling and putting down your thoughts on paper to get rid of them or to see them in a clearer light, this is something I've been doing on and off for a month and does work.
And lastly music 'devote your attention to a piece of music you love -as you do the dishes' as I just did 'bonus points for singing along' - or in my case not if someone else is listening, but that's the fun of it, isn't it?
I got the paperback verison from the shop The Works and it's a great little book. It has a 100 different exercises which you can do to release stress. Each one has a quote, which I loved. It's a great little book that you can either carry around with you or keep dipping back in as and when you wish.
What I also loved was the questions it asks about how you think and how and what you see around you such as this one -Stressful situations - 'what were the triggers that set me off?'
It also mentions journling and putting down your thoughts on paper to get rid of them or to see them in a clearer light, this is something I've been doing on and off for a month and does work.
And lastly music 'devote your attention to a piece of music you love -as you do the dishes' as I just did 'bonus points for singing along' - or in my case not if someone else is listening, but that's the fun of it, isn't it?
August 25, 2017
Read my review of Stress Less on my website: www.keepcalmandwrite.com. It also appears in the July 2017 edition of Syracuse Woman magazine.
September 29, 2018
I am very exciting to this book
November 10, 2018
This is a good little book for mindfulness. Easy to read tips and quotes.
December 31, 2020
Usually I find this type of book pretty lame but this one is not. I kept a list of the ones that I found helpful and that I wanted to revisit. The list was much longer than I expected.
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