Be More Stress-Less! - The Workbook: Realize Your Best Life by Retooling Your Stress

This companion to the bestselling book ‘The Biology of Beating Stress’ details easy, step-by-step techniques for restoring calm to body and mind in our highly overstimulated world. It will easily become the go-to source for stress reduction strategies that can easily be incorporated into even the busiest lives. This ‘play’ book contains powerful stress management tools which are based on the latest research and drawn from a variety of proven treatment methods, including progressive relaxation, autogenic therapy, self-hypnosis, visualization and high intensity interval training. By building your inner resources to handle and recognize stress you begin to ease into an over-all more relaxed state of being. From the very first chapter, you'll explore what makes you tick and what in-turn triggers your stress. Learn to re-frame stress, lowering the volume on the harmful stress cortisol response by making stress work for you instead of against you. You’ll understand how setting goals and taking life in smaller chunks creates an inner sense of control and awakens new possibilities. In each chapter you’ll gain new tools for relaxation and stress reduction, and on-the-spot exercises that you can apply when you feel stressed and more importantly as stress prevention. The result is a comprehensive yet easily accessible workbook that will help you to reduce stress and cultivate a more peaceful life.

Jeanne Ricks has a passion for teaching and sharing information about how we can all optimize our health and improve our sense of well-being. As recent Director of Holistic Wellness Programs for City College of New York, she develops programs which emphasize self-healing through nutrition, breathing techniques and meditation; self-empowerment through practical techniques for coping with stress, building health and vitality, and developing inner resources to confront adversity and challenges in one's life. Her outreach not only empowers the average person but, also those battling alcoholism, drug addiction, domestic violence, mental illness and the isolation often experienced by the elderly. Through her work with numerous clients she developed the successful Centered Eating for Restoration program. She is an independent Nutritional Consultant, lecturer, author and life coach whose motto is; "As we instill new ideas - behavior changes - health improves.' Jeanne Ricks' credentials include certificates earned in health counseling through Columbia University's Teacher's College in New York, as well as from the Open Center in New York through their professional training program in Herbalism covering traditional, Chinese, Ayurvedic and Native American traditions. She also holds certification from the American Association of Drugless Practitioners as a Holistic Health Practitioner and is a member of the Northeast Herbal Association. In addition, Jeanne is certified as a Clinical Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists. Her new book 'The Biology of Beating Stress' on New Page Books hit the shelves June 2014 and is available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Available as an eBook through Kindle and Nook