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    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Stress: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Stress: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Stress: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
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    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Stress: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories

    By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

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    This book on stress in the successful Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series offers inspirational stories followed by positive, practical advice. It addresses the #1 lifestyle/health issue in America today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicken Soup for the Soul
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781453280164
    Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Stress: Important Facts, Inspiring Stories
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    Jack Canfield

    Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor with Gay Hendricks of You've GOT to Read This Book! An internationally renowned corporate trainer, Jack has trained and certified over 4,100 people to teach the Success Principles in 115 countries. He is also a podcast host, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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      Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series - Jack Canfield

      Chicken Soup for the Soul®

      Healthy Living Series:

      Stress

      Chicken Soup for the Soul

      Healthy Living Series:

      Stress

      Jack Canfield

      Mark Victor Hansen

      Leslie Godwin, MFCC

      Backlist, LLC, a unit of

      Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

      Cos Cob, CT

      www.chickensoup.com

      Contents

      Introduction: You Can Beat Stress

      Leslie Godwin, MFCC

      Looking for the Moon Jennifer Lawler

      Take a Deep Breath

      Think about . . . why I want to de-stress

      The Invisible Thief Mary Reginald

      Stress and Your Health

      Stress and Your Mood

      Think about . . . what stress is doing to me

      Smell the Flowers Abha Iyengar

      Returning to the Sunlight Larisa Migachyov

      On-the-Job Stress

      Think about . . . my work stress

      My Mother’s Strength Patricia Jones

      When Someone You Love Is Stressed

      Time to Play Winnie Yu

      Mission Control

      Think about . . . can I control this stress?

      Kicking Stress Sarah Skilton

      Beating Stress Eating

      Think about . . . my diet

      Stress Tests Isabel Bearman Bucher

      Get a Move On! Beating Stress Through Exercise

      Think about . . . moving my body

      Type A Mind, Type B Body Sallie A. Rodman

      Cop an Attitude!

      Think about . . . my attitude

      All in the Family Michael Jordan Segal,MSW

      Don’t Fly Solo: Support Systems

      Think about . . . my support system

      December Dreamer Cynthia Hinkle

      Turning to a Pro

      Think about . . . whether I should see a professional

      Meditation—The Best Medication Dolores Kozielski

      Stress and Spirituality

      Think about . . . my spiritual practice

      Don’t Smell the Roses ShirleyWarren

      Keep It Simple, Sweetie! Simplify Your Life Without Feeling Deprived

      Think about . . . simplifying my life

      From Stress to Serenity Judith Fraser, MFT

      The New (Unstressed) You!

      Think about . . . positive changes in my life

      Resources

      Who Is . . . ?

      Contributors

      Permissions

      Fear less, hope more,

      eat less, chew more,

      whine less, breathe more,

      talk less, say more,

      love more,

      and all good things

      will be yours.

      —Swedish Proverb

      Introduction:

      You Can Beat Stress

      Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you have physical symptoms that your doctor (or your instincts) tells you are stress-related? Or does a family member suffer from stress but hasn’t yet taken steps to deal with it?

      This book can help.

      Stress is not a disease, but it can cause or exacerbate diseases. It’s vague enough to be blamed for almost anything from a bad mood to a heart condition. Yet it’s concrete enough to cause certain hormones to course through your bloodstream and affect your appetite, weight, skin, and even your heart and other vital organs.

      Most of us would say we know what to do when we’re stressed. Try to relax, maybe take a vacation or get a massage. But even if we follow through on these actions, are they the most effective ways we can spend the little time and energy left over in our busy lives? And are they simple and affordable so that we can make them part of our day-to-day routine? A vacation is a great way to temporarily relieve certain kinds of stress, but most of us can’t afford to head out of town often enough to make a long-term difference. A biweekly massage might do the trick, but the costs add up quickly.

      We’ve come up with simple, proven methods to beat stress and have given you a variety of these ideas to sample until you find the combination that works best for you. Start by taking the quiz on page 6 to identify your stress style. Then, fill out the brief worksheets or checklists in those sections that relate to your situation to see what you can do to reduce your stress right now. And enjoy the inspirational stories others have written and allowed us to share with you.

      So don’t forego the vacation you’ve been planning. And there’s no need to cancel that massage you’ve scheduled. But read on to find out how you, or your loved ones, can reduce or eliminate stress by making simple changes in your attitude and behavior that will leave you feeling relaxed, energized and able to be fully engaged in your active life.

      Take care.

      —Leslie Godwin, MFCC, author of

      From Burned Out to Fired Up

      Looking for the Moon

      Moon, Mama, Jessica says, grabbing my arm and pointing at the window. She is obsessed with the moon. But until she was five years old, she didn’t even know it existed. Before that, it was just the two of us and bright lights and hospital beds and a long and gradual awakening to awareness.

      Once she discovered the moon and how it changes from one evening to the next, she fixated on it, demanding to know how it waxes and wanes. She memorized the words: crescent and half, gibbous and full. On her seventh birthday last July, the new moon had not yet risen. After she scanned the sky unsuccessfully, she asked with a sigh if I thought the dogs had eaten it.

      I practice patience with her obsessions: rock collecting, the three songs we must sing in order before bed, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and her shrill rejection of the word little. Patience when she was a newborn and nobody could explain why she was having seizures; patience when she was seven months old and the neurologist finally gave a name to the illness—tuberous sclerosis, a rare disease that causes tumors and seizure disorder, and in Jessica’s case, malformed her brain; patience when the surgeons removed most of the left side of her brain, leaving me to cope with the wreckage of my dreams and a little girl who couldn’t even hold her head up. I know a lot about patience, more than I would like to know.

      Sometimes my patience runs out, like right now, as I try to fix dinner while she demands that I look at the moon. She always stands precisely where I need to be next. It’s little kid radar: how to best position herself where she cannot be ignored. In some regards, she is like every other child I have known.

      I’ve got a heavy pan in one hand and a colander in the other, and I’m keeping an eye on the stove because the burner is still lit, and it would be just like Jessica to stick her hand on it. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell her not to touch the stove, she doesn’t remember. Her mind is like this colander. How many times have I told her? Ten thousand times. But then try to get her to forget something, like the word dammit, or the

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