“Lessen the Stressin’: Strategies for Becoming Smarter in Managing Stress” by Steven C. German, Ph.D., NCC has been released worldwide. This 288-page guide to stress management applies to people from all backgrounds, with practical strategies that apply to daily life, workplace stress, running a business, interpersonal relationships, and beyond. Through the exercises and perspectives presented throughout each chapter, readers will learn about the importance of managing stress, the role of healthy stress, the numerous sources of stress in the modern world, and developing personal strategies for minimizing the negative effects of stress.
With insights drawn from a varied and extensive career as a counseling psychologist, Dr. German lays out a constructive, optimistic, and easy-to-understand framework for understanding the role of stress in the mind and body. He provides tools for self-identifying major stressors, handy definitions of common terms, exercises for developing resilience, and methods of reframing stressful situations.
Dr. German emphasizes the importance of clear communication (with the self and others) in both reducing stress and navigating difficult scenarios, connecting stress management with principles of compassion, active listening, and self-awareness. The author also includes anecdotes from his own personal and professional life to ground these techniques in practical application. In line with Dr. German’s goal of creating a book that will help individuals find calm in their lives, soothing scenes of nature adapted from the watercolor paintings of North Carolina artist Claire Gillespie are interspersed throughout the book.
As its core message, the book reviews seven “Cs” associated with becoming smarter in effectively managing stress: healthy Communication, constructive Conflict resolution, embracing Change positively, creating Calm each day, Challenging our negative thinking, being Cognizant of the personal impact of stress, and establishing Connections with others as well as ourselves. Armed with these principles and their associated action steps, readers can approach life’s challenges with a functional “tool kit” for finding resolutions and maintaining a cool head.
An inspiring, hopeful approach to health and wellness, including aspects of focus, productivity, and personal growth, this manual for stress management is packed with helpful information, organized by someone who understands what is involved in quality training and instruction, and stands to improve the lives of all who incorporate Dr. German’s strategies into their lives.
Lessen the Stressin’ (ISBN: 9781963844405) can be purchased through retailers worldwide, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon. The paperback retails for $22.99 and the eBook retails for $9.29. Review copies and interviews are available upon request.
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From the back cover:
A Practical Guide for Learning Ways to Better Manage Stress
How do you experience more joy each day and remain productive and focused on what is most important to you despite sometimes being surrounded by the dark clouds of stress circling overhead or looming on the horizon? Lessen the Stressin’ effectively answers this challenging question by providing a comprehensive review of practical strategies and information essential to managing stress. Conceived and written with the goal of offering an enlightening training opportunity, this book also includes self-assessments and anecdotes to enhance learning. In addition, there are chapters focused on ways for handling stress generated in three areas often found to be particularly problematic – conflict, change, and communication, including digital communication. Dr. German’s insights and thorough coverage of easy to implement strategies help contribute to the optimistic feeling that with some effort, it is possible to successfully manage stress in an increasingly complex world.
About the author:
Dr. Steven German is a licensed psychologist and nationally certified counselor who has sought throughout his professional career to help others deal with the potentially negative impact of stress. This goal has been achieved while serving as a guidance counselor, school psychologist, and special education director in the public schools, as a trainer and consultant in the outplacement field, as a psychologist with the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Army Reserves, and in his private practice of almost three decades. In addition to his published works, he has delivered training for organizations on topics related to stress. In his spare time, Dr. German enjoys hiking, traveling, singing, working on small building projects, and spending quality time with family and friends.
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