Dear Stress, I'm Breaking Up with You: The Woman's Guide to End Internal and External Pressures While on Her Way to Success.

by Ky-Lee Hanson

We want it all as modern women today, don’t we? And more than ever we can have it all: success, a rewarding career, family, relationships, a social life.

Perhaps you already do have it all… But at what expense?

For most women, stress is at an all-time high as we endeavour to achieve it ‘all’. Our health, happiness and well-being at stake with feelings of being over-worked, under-appreciated, tired and burnt out. So what is stress? How does it work? And why are we slaves to its damaging effects, which impact the very elements of life we are trying to achieve?

Join a collective of inspiring women from all walks of life who have come together to share their experiences and their insights on how you can learn to balance the trifecta of love, life and happiness by…

Identifying key areas of stress in your life
Limiting the impact of stress on your health and well-being
Practising gratitude to shift your perception
Saying ‘NO’ to anything that no longer serves you
Prioritizing the elements of a fulfilling life and putting YOU first
Rethink the way you approach your journey to happiness and success with each chapter of this book. Written from the heart, this is a guided journey of laughter, tears, gut-wrenching experiences and life lessons through the eyes of a tribe of strong, soulful and successful women.

It’s time for you to say goodbye to stress! Repeat after me…

Dear Stress, I’m breaking up with you!

206 pages, ebook

Published February 21, 2017

Reviews

[Lindsey Lynn (thepagemistress) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5 stars

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Stress. We all have it. This book is a fun and insightful way to understanding this crutch we all stumble with. I liked the ideas and coping in this book. It was so clever and there were moments where I found myself laughing because it is so relate-able. I am a character driven reader so this book just didn't grasp me as much as I would have liked. Also, it is considered self-help which is definitely out of my wheelhouse.

Overall, for this being a self-help book I did enjoy it but I am ready to go back to fictional worlds to escape. I highly recommend this for a funny, quirky, well laid out book to help with stress.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sure, this book is written by women, for women, but what I love is that it's written by REAL women! These women aren't traditional experts on stress in the sense that they aren't psychiatrists or psychologists, but they, along with most of us, have lived stress and are experts in their own stress. if you're looking for a one-size fits all stress management model, this isn't the book for you. what it will give you is how each of these women lived their stress and its manifestations, and how they were able to identify and most importantly, learn to live through it. this book offers a variety of tips and tricks that can be used by real people living real situations, take one or take it all, but either way it's well worth the read!

[Rachel Nazareth · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t enjoy this book, many of the authors solutions to stress for women was to get a divorce. I found the book was by many white women who didn’t really notice their own privilege. I mean it’s easy to say, “yeah quit your job and start your own business when you have a two year old, follow your dreams!”- when you have finances or family support to back you up. It isn’t realistic for many people.

I really wanted more tangible suggestions for reducing stress I guess. I did like the two Indian authors who wrote 2 essays - they had some helpful comments on setting your own expectations and not trying to meet others standards for us as women.

Ultimately it took me three years to finally finish this book, not a great sign of good writing.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a collection of short essays, this book describes the many facets of stress and how to handle it. A few stories resonated with me but most didn’t. Still interesting overall

[Olivia Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing quick read! Such insightful, raw thoughts. Many I could identify with. I did find it a but curious why there's 3 co-authors with the same last name though...