The Stress Handbook for Men: Practical Stress Management for Work, Money and Family Pressure, One Change a Week for 13 Weeks

Most stress books tell you to relax. This one has you count.

For seven days you write down how often you get wound up, and when. Thirty seconds, three times a day. Then you change one thing a week and let your own numbers say what stays. Thirteen weeks in all. No app, and no talking about feelings unless you want to.

What is inside

• A quick start you can begin tonight, inside the first pages
• Six short chapters on how ordinary days pile up: stacking, drift, the five habits that make everything heavier, the four stories men tell themselves, and how to read your first week of numbers
• Thirteen weeks: one to count, then one change a week. The first thirty minutes, message windows, one gap a day, the evening close, the sleep window, deciding in batches, the gate, the 24-hour rule, arguments under load, replay, standards and comparison, and a review that ends in a one-page manual of your own
• The smallest version of every change, for the weeks when the full one is out of reach
• Chapters on work and leading a team, money, home, and the weeks when your body is the problem, plus every script in one place and how the method bends for shift work, the road and working for yourself
• The fourteen-day rebuild for when it all falls apart, a 72-hour sheet for the bad day, and plain answers to the questions men ask most
• 29 pages of forms at the back: a seven-day log, thirteen weekly pages, the quarterly review, the one-page manual, the rebuild, the 72-hour sheet and a weekly check for men who lead a team

Who this is for

Men under steady pressure from work, money and family, who would rather have a system than a conversation. Managers, tradesmen, drivers, men on shifts and men who work for themselves. Every example is a man with a job and a phone that never stops.

What it is not

It is not therapy and not a cure, and it says so. It cites no studies. It gives you a seven-day test for every change and lets your week page decide. There is a page at the front on when to see a doctor instead.

A practical gift for a husband, a partner, a brother or a father who carries a lot and says little about it. There is a short chapter at the end for whoever put the book in his hands.

6 x 9 inches, 171 pages, black ink on white paper. Read the first page tonight and start counting tomorrow.