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Books and Tapes

  • A Day Away from Stress Audio Tape
  • Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much
    Step back from the overload--that overwhelming combination of work, household chores, caring for children, and meeting everyone’s needs but your own and let the gentle advice, warm-hearted humor, encouraging thoughts, and reassuring reminders from women around the world help you calm in the whirlwind of your life.
  • Sick of Stress: Techniques for Turning Off Tension
     Video Tape: Learn some of the techniques for reducing stress, including biofeedback, deep breathing, meditation, and progressive relaxation. Designed as an introduction to the topic for anyone under too much pressure.
  • Stress Management for Dummies
    Does work tie your stomach in knots? Do you sometimes have trouble sleeping at night? This friendly guide can help. Packed with quick, easy tips and exercises--from breathing and posture to imagery and meditation--it gives you all the tools you need to reduce your stress level immediately.
  • Stress That Motivates: Self-Talk Secrets for Success
    Read and learn how to determine your priorities and pressures, the eight general signals of burnout, how to develop your own stress-motivation profile, and how to reduce stress through the self-coaching process.
  • The Relaxation Tape Audio Tape
  • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
    Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Robert Sapolsky’s acclaimed Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more.
  • The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living
    Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. Janet Luhrs brings together strategies, inspiration, resources, and real-life profiles of people who have showed down, overcome obstacles, and created richer lives.