It’s time to make stress your ally, not your enemy.
Stress is inherent to the human condition. When not properly understood, stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health, our relationships, and our lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
In Stress Wisely, award-winning psychology scholar and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how we can be strategic in stressful times by challenging everything we’ve been told about stress―and wielding its power in our favour.
With her signature honesty, humor, relatability, and intimacy, Dr. Robyne draws on her vast research and real-world experiences in wellness, stress, and resiliency to help you navigate the chaos in the wisest way possible.
Through smart strategies and awareness-raising exercises grounded in science and the eight touchstones of wellness―physical, emotional, intellectual, social environmental, occupational, financial, and spiritual―Dr. Robyne teaches you how to make your nervous system your ally in every stage of your life (yes, even in the most challenging circumstances).
Life is joyful, complicated, messy, and downright hard at times, AND you are capable to navigate it all. In Stress Wisely, get ready to learn, unlearn, and integrate smart stressing principles for a healthier, more meaningful, and purpose-filled life that is waiting for you. Better days are ahead.
Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is on a mission to make life’s toughest challenges not just manageable but meaningful. She blends cutting-edge research with real-life wisdom to teach resiliency, stress navigation, and optimal performance―all with a dash of humour and a whole lot of hope and heart.
An award-winning behavioural educator, Dr. Robyne’s debut book, Calm Within the Storm, earned the 2022 Silver Nautilus Award for Psychology/Mental & Emotional Well-Being. Her second book, Stress Wisely, won the 2023 Silver Award in Self-Help from the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, the 2023 Bronze Award for Self-Help (Adult Nonfiction) by the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, and the Grand Prize in the Nonfiction Contest by the BookLife Prize.
Dr. Robyne’s calling is bold and simple: to prove that hope is a strategy, resiliency is a skill, and better days are always within reach. She is a proud mom to teenagers Hunter, Ava Lesley, and Jaxson, and lives in Central Ontario with her husband Jeff.
