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A practical guide that sheds light on the hidden impact of financial stress on families. It shows how stable families can become overwhelmed by life's events, which can impair them financially, but more importantly, emotionally.

‘Angela Sasseville’s personal journey, informed by her experience as a professional counselor, is full of important lessons for so many people who find their relationships shaken by money problems. The result is a readable, useful resource that can help families navigate these financial storms.’ - David Brancaccio, public radio and television journalist ‘A heartfelt book. Angela Sasseville reassures parents that the struggle to make ends meet is a common experience because the structure of the modern workplace and social supports simply haven&rsqu..read more

Stress: it's practically the watchword of modern life. We all know we should learn to manage it. We know that it can shorten our lives, age us prematurely, make us fat. We know it can cause a host of physical and psychological problems, from heart disease to impotence - but we all seem to keep suffering from it. One more thing we all know is that, ultimately, we are responsible for reducing the stress we experience each day. This little book offers ten simple solutions any of us can use to make this important change once and for al... read more

The Applied Relaxation Training CD corresponds with chapter 7 of The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook. It brings together a number of proven relaxation techniques to help listeners reverse the effects of high stress in less than a minute. Swedish physician L.G. Ost developed applied relaxation in the late 1980s while working with phobic patients who needed rapid and reliable methods to cut through the anxiety that struck when they encountered phobic situations. Finding that his technique could achieve high rates of success ... read more

The ability to recognize how your body reacts to the stressors in your life can be a powerful skill. Most people are more aware of the weather, the time of day, and their bank balance than they are of the tension in their own bodies or their personal stress responses. The body registers stress long before your conscious mind does. Muscle tension is the body's way of letting you know that you are stressed, and body awareness is the first step toward acknowledging and reducing that stress. The Body Awareness and Imagination audio pro... read more

Stress is a major health problem for women. Recent studies suggest that simply reducing stress is overly limiting, and that some forms of stress can benefit us. By turning negative stress into a positive force, stress can actually be a beneficial experience. This self-help guide provides exercises especially written for women to evaluate stress and to boost its potentially positive impact on their mental and physical well-being.

It's just a matter of genetics: About one in every twenty of us has a neurological system that is especially acute and finely tuned. On one hand, it's a great gift. It makes the world seem richer, subtler, more infinite in variety. On the other, it makes these highly sensitive people (HSPs) more easily disturbed by bright lights, loud noises and the chaos that the less sensitive among us take for granted. In her breakaway book, "The Highly Sensitive Person", psychologist Elaine Aron defined this common condition. Author Ted Zeff, a... read more

Person-centred instead of theory-centred, this resource provides a basic context for understanding how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects people and those around them. Compassionate, first-hand knowledge of the different ways in which PTSD manifests itself are described throughout the 12 case studies examined in this guide. Bringing this mental health issue to light for sufferers, families, and friends, these stories illuminate the confusion that often surrounds the behaviours and reactions associated with PTSD and can i... read more

In 1990, Jon Kabat-Zinn revolutionized the way millions of people handle distressing thoughts and feelings by writing Full Catastrophe Living, the book that introduced mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to the public for the first time. In A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, mindfulness experts Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein adapt Kabat-Zinn's groundbreaking program into an accessible workbook format. Readers turn to this book once a week for eleven weeks, gradually improving their ability to relieve intense stres... read more

The Progressive Relaxation and Breathing audio program, based in chapters 3 and 4 of The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, teaches progressive muscle relaxation, a stress management technique developed by American physician Edmund Jacobson in the early 1920s. Jacobson argued that since muscular tension accompanies anxiety, one can reduce anxiety by learning how to relax muscular tension. Jacobson trained his patients to voluntarily relax certain muscles in their body in order to reduce anxiety symptoms. He found that the re... read more

When we get caught up in the more frenzied moments of our increasingly workaholic lifestyles, the experience of being stuck in traffic or left on hold in the middle of a phone call can - and does - feel like an enormously frustrating waste of time. Never fear though. Serenity to Go is a refreshing antidote to overworked lives, and with its practical solutions helps us transform the frustrations of a busy day into calming mini-breaks.

Student life is full of possibilities - and pitfalls. The food isn't very good, but there sure is a lot of it. And you can eat as much of anything - and everything - as you want. There's no one in halls of residence to tell you when to go to bed, and the all-night cram session is something of a badge of honour (to say nothing of all-night parties.) And exercise - what's that? The good news is that, with a little good advice, first-year students can eat right and get the sleep and exercise they need to excel academically and creativ... read more

In this book a clinical psychologist and a social worker present a mindfulness and spirituality-based program readers can use to dramatically improve their quality of life by conquering distraction, avoiding overload, and focusing attention on the things they value most.

Stress can be reduced with an enormously powerful force-the imagination. The practice of positive thinking for the treatment of physical symptoms was popularized by Emil Coue, a French pharmacist, around the turn of the nineteenth century. He believed that the power of the imagination far exceeds that of the will. Most people cannot will themselves into a relaxed state if they are already stressed, but they can imagine relaxation spreading through their bodies, and they can visualize themselves in a safe and beautiful refuge. Coue ... read more

"The Daily Relaxer" distills the best of the best to bring together the most effective and popular techniques for learning how to relax. Each relaxer presents a simple, tension-relieving exercise that one can learn in five minutes and practice with positive results right away.

Highly sensitive people (HSPs), who make up some 20 per cent of the population , are individuals who both enjoy and suffer from a finely tuned neurological system. This condition can be a gift, but until HSPs master their sensitive nervous systems, they operate in a constant state of over stimulation.

Difficult and traumatic life experiences affect our lives in unexpected ways and can even change the way we sleep. In fact, up to 75 percent of all people who have experienced abuse, violence, or traumatic incidents have sleeping problems after these events, even after all other trauma-related symptoms have diminished. If you've experienced these problems for yourself, The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook is for you. This workbook is based in cognitive behavioral therapy, a powerful approach that has been proven to be more effecti... read more

Since its first publication in 1980, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook has become the most indispensable resource for effective and up-to-date techniques for relaxing the body, calming the mind, and refreshing the spirit. Therapists recommend the book to their clients; readers pass it on to their friends. Nearly a million copies have helped millions of people take the edge off their stressful lives and find the peace they need to foster happiness and success. The overwhelming popularity of this book is the result of its ... read more

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced.
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and ... read more

Written by the leaders of the renowed HeartMath Institute and authors of Transforming Anger, this book provides scientifically-proven techniques that alter the body's physical response to stress, and shows readers how to attain a peaceful, positive state of being.

Write Your Own Prescription for Stress shows readers how to determine their personality types, identify their stresses, and recognize how their personalities contributes to their perceptions of stress in their lives. The authors write that personality and stress-coping resources hold the key to emotional well-being. Charts and worksheets.