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Everywhere in today's society words like stress, burn out and anxiety are common. It affects young and old. Some stresses can be reduced through exercise, time management, saying NO to added activities in an already busy schedule as well as sharing the load. One source of information on the subject, along with possible ways to cope with them naturally, are available from books and audio tapes.

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Stretching for Flexibility & Health

Francine St. George / Paperback / 176 pages / 1997
Stretching our muscles provides a key to optimum health by improving circulation, maintaining muscle tone, and reducing everyday stress. In this easy-to-follow, 10-step format, Stretching for Flexibility & Health tells you all you need to know about muscle fitness and offers more than 100 stretching, strengthening, and mobility exercises for each part of the body. St. George describes the various body systems, answers commonly asked questions about muscles and movement, shows how and when to stretch, explains how to prepare and train for a sport at any age, and offers daily routines. This is the definitive guide for all levels of fitness -- from beginners starting an exercise program to experienced athletes wanting to reduce the risk of injury. ..$12.99


Be Anxious for Nothing
Joyce Meyer / Hardcover / 1999

Outstanding Bible teacher and author, Joyce Meyer gives practical and powerful answers as she shares her past defeats with worry, frustration, and stress. Readers will discover the victorious principles that helped her to overcome these obstacles and revolutionize her life and ministry. In a humorous and insightful mariner, Be Anxious for Nothing shares the Biblical keys to learn how to lighten up and enjoy a balanced life full of God's richest blessings! .. $16.49




Living above Your Circumstances:Real Victory over Disappointment, Depression & Stress
Bob George / Paperback / 256 pages / 1996
George, author of Classic Christianity offers a practical guide for every Christian who wants to know how to manage their emotions and live above their circumstances. We can have victory instead of failure and experience the genuine freedom that comes through dependence on Christ alone. George takes readers step-by-step to biblical solutions, showing how unrealistic expectations and misplaced dependencies play a major role in affecting our emotions. ..$6.99




Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love
Richard Carlson / Hardcover / 272 pages / 1999
In one hundred brief, beautifully written essays, Dr. Carlson shows readers how not to overreact to a loved one's criticism, how to appreciate your spouse in new ways, how to get past old angers, and many other ways to improve and increase the joy and pleasure that can and should be a part of any partnership. ..$13.49




Stress Management for Dummies
Elkin / Paperback / 336 pages / 1999
Written by a top expert in stress management, this guide offers simple tips and tricks to help readers organize their day, their desk, and their lives--to help cut out the stress. Illustrations. ..$16.99




Breathe in, Breathe Out:Inhale Energy & Exhale Stress by Guiding & Controlling Your Breathing
James Loehr / Paperback / 208 pages / 1999
It shouldn't be a revolutionary notion: We do it 20,000 times a day. Breathing -- deeply and fully -- is one of our body's fundamental strategies for maintaining well-being. But many of us breathe incorrectly, taking shallow breaths that rob our body and brain of oxygen. The result? We lose our most natural weapon against emotional and physical imbalance. Breathe In, Breathe Out is a step-by-step guide to understanding the healing power of controlled breathing. Drs. Loehr and Migdow explain the physiology of breathing and the ways in which it impacts the body. They catalog the different kinds of breaths individuals can employ to discharge stress and achieve optimal mental and physical performance. They also explore the variety of imbalances that can be countered with controlled breathing: blood pressure, overeating, constipation, headache, chronic pain, injuries, convalescence, asthma, alcohol abuse, hyper-ventilation, sinus congestion, sleep disorders, snoring, sex, and more. Includes an appendix for improving air quality in the home. ..$12.99




Adrenaline & Stress
Archibald Hart / Paperback / 240 pages / 1995
Everyone today has stress. But too much stress can produce too much adrenaline which can be physically damaging. Utilizing extensive new research, Dr. Hart has discovered the hidden link between adrenaline and stress and shows how to manage adrenaline levels and prevent stress-related illnesses physically, mentally and spiritually. ..$11.49






Anxiety & Stress
Susan Lark / Paperback / 288 pages / 1993
Nervous tension, anxiety, panic--all caused by stress--each affecting millions of American women. The old, conventional remedy was "a pill to calm you down." Fortunately, those days are over and the organic causes--and solutions--to anxiety, stress, and panic disorders are finally being taken seriously. Dr. Lark's comprehensive program discusses the new thinking on symptoms, causes, and the sometimes tricky diagnosis of stress related conditions. She also offers detailed information on vitamins, herbs and minerals; recipes and individualized meal plans; plus invaluable stress reduction techniques, including yoga, breathing exercises, and acupressure. ..$16.99




Break the Stress Cycle!
Judith Sachs / Paperback / 256 pages / 1998
Break the Stress Cycle offers women a proven program for lowering their stress levels and promoting well-being through the following steps: identify the major stresses you face, focus on changing one behavior at a time, learn to delegate, learn meditation and breathing exercises, and know when to get professional support. ..$8.49




Career Success - Personal Stress
Christine A. Leatz / Paperback / 356 pages / 1993
This book begins from a refreshingly commonsense--but frequently overlooked--set of assumptions about stress: that stress is the rule nowadays, and is virtually wired-in to most work environments; that stress can be used to advantage; that it is unrealistic to think that stress can be eliminated. Stress specialists Leatz and Stolar build on these principles to fight stress. Illustrated. ..$12.99




Childhood Stress (Wiley Series in Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series)
Hardcover / 624 pages / 1990

The first section examines the two aspects of stress, psychosocial and biological, and their interactions, covering the effect of stress on the developing brain, the neuroendocrine substrate of stress reactions psychosomatic reactions and psychological symptom formation. The second section examines specific stressors encountered at each developmental stage, age-typical methods of responding to stress and special stress pitfalls. The third considers specific stressors such as divorce, parental death or illness, abuse, poverty, discrimination and social violence. Finally, the fourth section examines risk and protective factors in assessment of stress as a basis for prevention and treatment. With a wealth of actual case material, it is solidly documented, amply illustrated with tables and figures, yet sufficiently non-technical in presentation to appeal to the widest possible readership. ..$194.99




Conquer Stress Auto-Matically (While-U-Drive Series)
Robert E. Griswold / Audio Cassette / 1999
Listeners learn how to conquer stress as they drive, work out, travel, or enjoy other activities. This tape has eight five- to ten-minute segments designed to help them feel calm and more positive and carefree. Available now. ..$10.49




Don't Stress!
Nancy E. Krulik / Paperback / 80 pages / 1998
Children discover simple ways to manage the demands of school, friends and family in this collection of 56 thoughtful mini essays. Each page contains one easy-to-read suggestion to combat stress. ...$4.49




Female Stress Syndrome, The
Georgia Witkin / Paperback / 320 pages / 1991
The reality of female stress has been denied, ignored, and minimized for too long. Here is the single most important book that tells it all: why women experience stress differently from men and how they can learn to deal with the everyday pressures in their lives. The second edition of this bestselling classic (over 100,000 sold) has now been revised to deal with the decade's new concerns, choices, and changes. Seven new chapters have been added, others expanded, covering female stresses, old and new; the female body; working women; mothering; love, sex, and marriage; the family in its various forms; children and teen stress; and aging. Included are checklists, quizzes, and the "female stress questionnaire" to help identify sources of stress. Most important, Dr. Witkin provides practical short- and long-term solutions and coping strategies gleaned from more than 15 years of clinical academic experience. ...$12.99




Fighting Invisible Tigers
Earl Hipp / Paperback / 160 pages / 1995
Proven, practical advice for teens on coping with stress, being assertive, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears, building relationships, and more. A perennial best-seller. ..$12.99






Help Yourself to Health
Adrian White / Hardcover / 96 pages / 1999
It affects your body your mind. You worry, become agitated, have headaches, and maybe even experience tremors, fatigue, and high blood pressure. That's stress, and in our fast-paced, do-it-all world almost everyone suffers from it occasionally. Whether you're going through a temporary bout or the symptoms never seem to disappear, relief is at hand. you need to understand the origins of this emotion, its effects, and the variety of techniques that alleviate the tension...so you can choose the method that will work best for you. ..$10.49




High on Stress:A Woman's Guide to Optimizing the Stress in Her Life
Simone Ravicz / Paperback / 240 pages / 1998
Psychotherapist Simone Ravicz presents a contemporary approach to dealing with stress that teaches women how they can transform negative stress into a positive, beneficial experience. ..$11.99






Is It Worth Dying For?:A Self-Assessment Program to Make Stress Work for You Not Against You Revised Edition
Robert S. Eliot / Paperback / 288 pages / 1989
Eliot not only explains the medical and psychological results of stress, but teaches complete effective ways to manage stress and ultimately make it work for individuals. ..$12.99




Natural Remedies for Stress
Sachs / Hardcover Textbook / 528 pages / 1996
"Nature's Prozac" offers information on a vast range of all-natural therapies that can eliminate anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and stress. Noted health researcher and writer Judith Sachs explains easy, non-prescription ways of relieving scores of psycho-emotional problems with natural techniques and therapies. ..$19.49




Relax Now!:Removing Stress from Your Life
Sheila Hayward / Hardcover & CD / 112 pages / 1998
Handle stress in a way that relieves its harmful effects with this book-and-CD combination. From fast-acting techniques to long-term lifestyle changes, here are methods to calm the mind and ease tension from the body. Full color. ..$16.99

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