Relax - You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work - Softcover

LaRoche, Loretta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401917690 ISBN 13: 9781401917692

Publisher: Hay House, 2008

Synopsis

Loretta LaRoche has been called “the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction”—and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this entertaining book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper.

Relax—You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today’s ever-increasing stress levels—it’s a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter.

       In sections such as “If You Don’t Have to Suffer—Don’t Practice,” “My Mother the CEO,” and “I’m Not Afraid of Heights, Just Widths,” Loretta dismantles our American predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives using the healing power of the absurd.

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From the Back Cover

Advance praise for Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left

"If she who laughs lasts, Loretta LaRoche just added ten years to my life. This wise and hilarious book is packed with valuable information on health and well-being from the Erma Bombeck of stress. Join the millions of people who have laughed with Loretta, effortlessly soaking up her wisdom and her wit."
--Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

"A wonderful gift--a joy to read and to experience."
--Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response and Timeless Healing

"Learning to laugh is serious business and Loretta LaRoche's book is an excellent resource for unenlightened stressed-out people who haven't yet learned the power of 'lightening up.' "         
--Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

"This book is classic Loretta--a combination of very practical stress-reduction strategies peppered with laughter-inducing observations. Although I have been teaching stress reduction for twelve years, I learned a lot as I giggled."
--Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., director, Mind/Body Center for Women's Health and author of Healing Mind, Healthy Woman

"Loretta LaRoche can capture delicious moments of self-imposed stress, reveal them for their inherent lunacy, and leave you laughing so hard, your eyes are running, your guts are aching, and you're gasping for breath. Make no mistake: this book is filled with wisdom, psychology, holistic health tips, compassion, spiritual practice, and common sense of the highest order. It's just that you're laughing so hard, you don't notice how smart it is till later."         --Belleruth Naparstek, author of         Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power
of Your Intuition

About the Author

Loretta LaRoche is an internationally known stress coach and consultant whose heart-warming and hilarious insights into ways to use humor to defeat stress have made her a favorite with viewers of her five PBS specials, and on the lecture circuit, where she performs an average of 100 talks per year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hay House
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1401917690
• ISBN 13: 9781401917692
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 228