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    Fresh Start: A Guide To Eliminating Unhealthy Stress
    Fresh Start: A Guide To Eliminating Unhealthy Stress
    Fresh Start: A Guide To Eliminating Unhealthy Stress
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    Fresh Start: A Guide To Eliminating Unhealthy Stress

    By Sarah O'Flaherty

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    Feeling overwhelmed? Do you have trouble sleeping? Are you feeling increasingly depressed? Could you be suffering from burnout? We all experience stress, but sometimes stress can leave us physically and emotionally drained. It can be difficult to regain a sense of balance in our lives.

    Inside Fresh Start – A Guide to Eliminating Unhealthy Stress you’ll discover:

    •What stress is, so that you can understand whether you’re affected. 
    •The difference between stress and burnout, so that you know which of these you’re dealing with. 
    •The many sources of stress, the key triggers, and how to halt stress in its tracks. 
    •Different coping strategies, so that you can see how your current coping strategies might be modified for better results
    •In the moment stress reduction strategies, so that you can lower your stress levels today. 
    •And much, much more!

    There are answers. Discover how to manage unhealthy stress and start feeling more calm and peaceful. Let Sarah O’Flaherty guide you to a healthier, happier life. 

    Sarah O’Flaherty assists people in improving their job/life satisfaction and working through career transitions. As a Clinical Psychologist, Sarah leverages the latest research and techniques for managing unhealthy stress to help her clients emerge from the chaos of stress and find balance and greater peace in their lives. In Fresh Start, Sarah teaches you about stress in any easy to understand format, with the hope of releasing you from damaging stress once and for all. Fresh Start will help you to transition away from stress while maintaining your relationships, your job, your home, and your sanity. 

    Fresh Start is packed with straightforward, honest, and practical advice that can be your wake-up call to a new start in life. If you like easy reads that tell it to you straight, then you’ll love having Sarah on your team.

    Buy A Fresh Start to help you return to calm and balanced living! 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSarah O'Flaherty
    Release dateAug 31, 2018
    ISBN9788829502172
    Fresh Start: A Guide To Eliminating Unhealthy Stress

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      Fresh Start - Sarah O'Flaherty

      Fresh Start

      A Guide To Eliminating Unhealthy Stress

      Sarah O'Flaherty

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      1. What Is Stress?

      2. What Is Burnout?

      3. The Different Ways We Cope

      4. Optimism/Pessimism And Stress

      5. How Do I Deal With Stress?

      6. Additional Tools

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      What Is Stress?

      Stress is estimated to cost American businesses up to $300 billion a year and has been labelled the ‘health epidemic of the 21st century’ by the World Health Organisation [1]. Numerous studies show that job stress is by far the major source of stress for many adults, and in a recent global survey, employers identified stress as the number one health risk factor for their employees [2]. However, stress is not limited to the workplace and can be caused by many things. It can be caused by being stuck in heavy traffic, by having overdue bills, or from having an argument with your neighbour.

      It is not surprising then that it is challenging to understand how to manage stress as it has been notoriously difficult to define. Hans Selye, considered to be the father of stress, defined it as the nonspecific response of the body to any demand. Unfortunately, this definition is rather generic and vague. Stress has also been described in a medical sense as the rate of wear and tear on the body, or more broadly, as an aversive event (physical, mental, or emotional) that threatens the well-being of an individual. Other definitions are [3]: the perception of threat with resulting anxiety, discomfort, emotional tension, and difficulty in adjustment; and that stress occurs when environmental demands exceed one’s perception of the ability to cope.

      However, when considering the many and varied definitions of stress, there was one definition that stood out for me, and that was the three-component definition developed by Kim and Diamond [4]. The authors suggest that this definition can be applied broadly across many settings and situations. First, stress requires heightened excitability or arousal (E). Second, the experience must be perceived as aversive (A). Third, there is a lack of control or uncontrollability (U). Thus, stress can be defined as the product of these three factors and can be shown in the equation outlined below:

      S = E x A x U

      Having control over an aversive experience is suggested to have a profound mitigating influence on how stressful the experience feels. The element of control is the variable that ultimately determines the magnitude of the stress experience and the susceptibility of the individual to suffer the physical and mental impacts of stress.

      So, in summary, stress can be defined as a condition in which an individual is aroused by an aversive situation – for example, a hostile employer, or an unpaid bill – with the magnitude of stress and its physiological consequences greatly influenced by the individual’s perception of their ability to control the presence or intensity of the situation.

      WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR BODIES?

      The biological response to stress involves the activation of three major interrelated systems. First, the stressor is perceived by the sensory systems of the brain, which evaluates the stress against how we are now

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