Optimal Stress: Living in Your Best Stress Zone - Hardcover

by Carol Scott (Author)

Find the optimal level of stress and wellness for your life and career--the essential guide for women

If you're one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the most important emotional and physical problems you face every day. Stress is inevitable, but this book shows you how to embrace it and use it. The key lies in learning how to transform harmful reactions into healthy responses.

Optimal Stress offers a new way to view, organize, and shape your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or demand in your life. Its approach helps you develop a crucial understanding of what stress is, what it is not, and most importantly, how to find the right stress-health balance.

• Clarifies the link between stress and medical disorders such as: heart disease, immune disorders, diabetes, and gastrointestinal issues
• Explains three key principles--Priorities, Passions, and Purpose--to help you understand and handle stress
• Shares data as well as other women's true stories, feelings, and insights about stress
• Reveals that stress is a process, with emotional, psychological, behavioral, biological and physical components
• Helps you find a renewed sense of meaning, coherence, and balance in your life through discovery of your personal Best Stress Zone
• Gets you in touch with your unique physical and personality traits and life circumstances that contribute to stress

Don't let stress overwhelm you--discover Optimal Stress and regain balance in your life.

Front Jacket

With all the stress you have in your life, don't you wish it were good for you? Well, guess what? It can be. All you have to do is discover the level of stress that's right for you and embrace it. Easier said than done, right? It can be easier than you ever imagined.

In "Optimal Stress," physician and celebrated stress-management strategist Carol Scott shows you a new way to view, organize, and shape your world and develop healthy responses to the stressors and demands in your life. She gives you the tools that will help you identify the symptoms of stress, recognize its triggers, and sort through your stressors to distinguish the ones that serve your goals from the ones that get in your way.

Drawing on the personal stories of scores of women of all ages and walks of life as well as on her own experience with stress-related illness, Dr. Scott combines the latest in medical research with the realities of modern life. She helps you design the stress-management program that works for you.

Stress is not a feeling or a condition. It is a complex cause-and-effect process designed to help you adapt to changing surroundings and events. Dr. Scott shows you how to take advantage of its positive aspects, minimize its negative effects, and find the stress balance that works best for you.

So stop stressing out about stress. Read "Optimal Stress" and take it easy.

Back Jacket

Stop Stressing about Stress

"Dr. Scott has broken down all the important pieces to stress and what it does to your mind, body, and spirit. This is a great book to help you live and stay in your best stress zone. Kudos for such an important book for understanding and dealing with stress without drugs!" --Ruth Klein, M.S., author of The De-Stress Diva's Guide to Life

If you're one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the most important emotional and physical problems you face every day. The reality is that life can often be hectic, tough, demanding, mind-numbing, and energy-sapping. You can't avoid many situations and events, but you can learn to embrace them and use them in creating a specific plan. The key lies in understanding what stress is and transforming harmful reactions into healthy responses.

Optimal Stress offers a new way to view, organize, and shape your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or demand in your life. Its approach helps you develop a crucial understanding of what stress is, what it is not, and, most important, how to find the right stress-health balance for you.

You'll gain a clear understanding of the three key principles that govern the way you experience stress, recognize the negative stressors that are most harmful to you, and learn how to:

• Distinguish the biological, behavioral, psychological, and emotional components of stress
• Recognize, identify, and cope with the symptoms of stress
• Measure your risk for stress-related illness
• Cope with the unique impact of stress on women and reduce it
• Understand how both good and bad stress can work for you
• Develop self-care strategies to nurture and defend yourself against harmful stress
• Learn how to relax at home or work in ten minutes or less

Don't let stress overwhelm you. Discover Optimal Stress and regain balance in your life.

Author Biography

Carol J. Scott, M.D., M.S.Ed., FACEP, is a stress-management strategist for organizations and individuals. Dr. Scott trained in internal medicine at Duke University and emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins. She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, coach, and consultant for such clients as Microsoft, McDonald's, Civil Service Employees Association NY (CSEA), IBM, Merrill Lynch, Discovery Communications, and Johnson & Johnson. She has spoken for the Florida, Pennsylvania, and California Governor's Conference for Women. She has been a keynote speaker at the Working Mother 100 Best Companies Work Life Congress. Her work has been featured in Fast Company and she has been cited in the "Wall Street Journal" and the "Washington Post." She has been heard on several radio shows, including the "WOR Saturday Morning Show with Joe Bartlett," the "Bev Smith Show," Martha Stewart Living Radio, and "Doug Stephan's Good Day." She is married with two sons.