Unfrazzle

Do you feel more frazzled, and less rested, than ever before? Do you feel you’re always running to catch up, but never quite make it? Are you searching for a route back to your calmer self, without adding yet another thing to your to-do list?
If you’d like to feel more in charge of your brain and your life, this book is for you.
You’ll learn how to reclaim genuine calm through personal stories, facts, quizzes and a six-step plan that fits into your real life, not around it. You won’t need to have a daily meditation practice. You won’t even need to buy a scented candle. Instead, discover the lowdown on stress, how YOU have the power to change your relationship with it, and real-world exercises to give you back your true self, every day of your life:

• Find your frazzle status – and learn how to cope in a crisis.
• Work through the ultimate toolkit to manage your smartphone use.
• Explore a super-simple method for your best night’s sleep yet.
• Reclaim headspace and time out just for you.
• Read how people survive the challenges of immigration detention, using the same methods you’ll learn about here.
• Get the latest neuroscience to help you rewire your stress response.

Frazzled? Then discover the solution: a tale of hope and a step-by-step plan to recover your true self and reclaim your calm. Unfrazzle is your manual for thriving in a twenty-first century life.
"Indispensable" - Sarah Rayner, author of Making Friends With Anxiety
"Wonderful and practical" - Kate Harrison, author of The 5:2 Books
"Fascinating and much-needed" - Siobhan Curham, author of Something More: A Spiritual Misfit's Search For Meaning

Stephanie Lam is a novelist, teacher and wellbeing journalist. She writes the popular Everyday Escape back-page column for Breathe magazine on real-world ways to achieve headspace and happiness, and for twenty years has also worked as a teacher alongside highly-stressed people in immigration detention. In 2015 a crisis transformed her life and forced her to rethink everything she thought she knew. From being a super-frazzled perfectionist who thought being busy was her special skill, she then became an expert on stress and how to escape it. She went on to devise Unfrazzle, an easy six-step plan to help everyone, no matter what their frazzle status, reclaim true calm within everyday life.