Addicted to stress

Addicted to stress

by Debbie Eisenstadt Mandel

2008

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A woman's down-to-earth guide for releasing stress and reclaiming her free-spiritStress management expert and radio personality Debbie Mandel presents her highly original program for stress reduction. She explains that women who are constantly stressed out have forgotten the dreams of the free-spirited girl living inside them before they became somebody's wife, mother, or workplace colleague. This book, the inspiring and humorous story of successful recovery from stress addiction, outlines her seven steps that have proven to help women overcome daily stressors and reclaim a life of joy and spontaneity.Explores the habit forming pressure principle of stress addiction and how to cure itProvides step-by-step program for self-empowerment, self-care, healthy narcissism, and renewing humor in a woman's relationshipsExplains the powerful, researched based relationship between food, exercise, and moodContains indispensable strategies for accepting constructive conflicts with a spouse, partner, friend or colleague to get what she wantsTeaches specific techniques for reducing and eliminating stress reductionAddicted to Stress shows how as the addiction to stress is cured, women find it possible to build up an immunity to outside pressure and become their true core self.

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    How does Debbie Mandel’s concept of "stress addiction" reframe the way we typically view chronic busyness and daily pressure in women's lives?

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    Think back to the "free-spirited girl" you were before taking on the roles of wife, mother, or career professional; what specific passions or traits of hers have you most neglected, and why?

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    Mandel advocates for a healthy dose of "narcissism" as a tool for self-care—how do you personally define healthy narcissism versus guilt, and is it a concept you struggle to embrace?

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