Book review: The Stress Book Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. TERRENCE FOSTER, MD.

Publisher's description

Are you experiencing so much stress in your life that it is so overwhelming that you feel your life is over? Or are you trying desperately to avoid that condition? Well, look no further! This book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing. More than forty approaches to stress reduction management and prevention are covered in this book, giving you an in-depth framework applicable to most lives and circumstances. For example, it helps people struggling with self-destructive behavior, stressful job, having difficulty intentionally making decisions, struggling with toxic relationships, and many other challenging situations. You will also be introduced to a "new relationship mental disorder called Abstract Kidnapping Disorder - A.K.D."This book also provides you with many opportunities to simplify the management of stress by using the acronym S.T.R.E.S.S. and incorporating any of the forty-plus actions included. In addition, you are provided with practical ideas, solutions, or options that, when applied, are likely to result in the reduction or prevention of your stress. This book is intended to significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. I trust that it will make a difference in yours. Thank you for taking the journey to improve stress in your life and for reading this book.

My review

The Stress Book is a comprehensive approach to help all of us reduce our levels of stress. This is a burning issue and Dr. Foster helps us navigate the most complicated challenges in this quest for more quiet and calm. The book includes four main sections, the basics of stress and its management, the physical actions, the mental actions, and the community actions we can all put in place to reduce our stress levels.  It is a holistic guide and we are given grids and worksheets to help us evaluate our stress levels, and to identify what really stresses us out. Dr. Foster’s Action Plan is devised for us to implement diverse actions which will improve our lifestyles and make us less prone to stress. This book is amazing and simple to understand even if the author explains in detail the science behind stress.