Synopsis
Practice Safe Stress: Healingand Laughing in the Face of Stress, Burnout, & Depression tackles the"Toxic-Traumatic Trio" - stress, burnout, and depression.¿ Learn practical and playful, inspiring andinsightful strategies for transforming these toxins into life-affirming energy,creative focus, and goal-achievement.¿Bringing a personal, professional, and organizational perspective, thisbook is alive with imaginative language and memorable "how to" ideas for:¿ Understandingthe "Four Stages of Burnout," the "Erosive Spiral"¿ Rebuilding your fire and developing "Natural SPEED"¿ Achievingliberation through "Emancipation Procrastination"¿ Reducing conflict as a healing or motivational "psychohumorist" ¿There are satirical essays on"lean-and-MEAN" managers and on mismanaged downsizings.¿ Learn to "laugh in the face of layoffs" andponder the possibility of "Van Gogh, Prozac, and Creativity."¿ The Stress Doc also shares his own trials,errors, and triumphs in battling the "Toxic Trio."Safe Stress provides manydiscrete "Top Ten" lists and "strategic tips" essays useful aseducational/informational handouts.¿ Toquote the Internet Newsroom:¿ YourGuide to the World of Electronic Factgathering:¿ "The most outstanding feature...is his 'psychohumor' essays.¿Always witty, thought-provoking, and helpful."¿ With this easy-to-follow, fast-paced,and fun health and wellness guide, you'll return often to Practice SafeStress.
About the Author
Mark Gorkin, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ¿, isa keynote and international/Celebrity Cruise Lines speaker, syndicatedcolumnist, and team-building consultant with thirty years experience as apsychotherapist.¿ The Doc has worked withhundreds of major companies, including with the U.S. Postal Service as a Stressand Violence Prevention Consultant.¿ Heis AOL's "Online Psychohumorist" ¿ and chat leader(Keyword: Stress Doc).¿ Mark haspioneered the multi-award-winning Stress Doc Website - www.stressdoc.com -a USA Today Online "Hot Site" and a National Public Radio "WorkplaceResource."¿ Interviewed by BBCRadio-London, the Doc has also published his former syndicated radio essays (TheWit and Wisdom of the Stress Doc) and has produced an "R & R" CD:¿ Relaxation (visualization) and Rap - "ShrinkRap" ¿.
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