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Highlights
- Loretta La Roche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress.
- About the Author: Loretta LaRoche is an internationally known stress-management consultant who advocates humor as a coping mechanism.
- 224 Pages
- Self Improvement, Personal Growth
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About the Book
LaRoche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress. Now she gives readers the tools they need to not only "reduce feelings of tension, but also to bring joy, passion, and gusto into their life."Book Synopsis
Loretta La Roche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress. Now, in Life Is Short--Wear Your Party Pants, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also to bring joy, passion, and gusto into your life. Her techniques are a brilliant blend of old-world common sense and the most contemporary research in brain chemistry, psychology, and mind-body studies. Loretta gives you dozens of proven techniques for recognizing the ten simple truths that will lead you to an intense, happy, successful life: resilience, living in the moment, optimism, acceptance, humor, creativity, moderation, responsibility, meaning, and connection.
Loretta's wisdom evolved from her own life--one filled with the demands of being a single mother of three; of starting her own business when she was broke; and of the wacky invasiveness of her Italian family. She's like all of us: real, flawed, stressed out, and on edge. Her magic comes from an ability to not take herself too seriously, and to always shift her focus away from the self-destructive and toward the truly important things in life.
In her work, Loretta has seen tens of thousands of people who live their lives as if they're sitting in a waiting room, hoping that their turn comes up next. This book will show you that life is not something to be endured, but is something to be truly appreciated. We need to remember how to access our inner abundance, which allows us to be heart-centered, joy-filled human beings.
As Loretta says: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift--that's why they call it the present."
Review Quotes
"Loretta LaRoche is a force of nature, the nation's favorite stress maven. As brilliant as she is hilarious, Loretta's witty wisdom is grounded in solid science and cutting-edge positive psychology. Her practical advice about wearing your party pants will set you free to claim peace, creativity, humor, and happiness. This is the best self-help book you'll ever read, and it could be the last one you'll ever need."
--Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Inner Peace for Busy People and Inner Peace for Busy Women
"I loved Life Is Short--Wear Your Party Pants. Loretta is the master at using humor to both create a lively and entertaining book, but more important, to make one stop and pay attention to what she's saying. And what she's saying is that we all need to slow down, love more, treat ourselves more kindly, and seize what life has to offer."
--Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology, Harvard Medical School; author of Self-Nurture
"I've loved Loretta ever since I first saw her on Public Television. This book is filled with insight, wisdom, and is presented in a humorous, fun way. I loved it."
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, author of 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace and The Power of Intention "Life Is Short--Wear Your Party Pants had me laughing outloud at the first paragraph of the Introduction. Loretta has done it again--written a book that instantly puts things in perspective, by being wise and extraordinarily funny at the same time."
--Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom "We all need more laughter and joy in our lives, and this book delivers the goods. You'll not only have fun reading it, you'll walk away with solid, practical ways to slow down, reconnect with what matters, and celebrate your life!"
--Cheryl Richardson, author of Stand Up for Your Life
About the Author
Loretta LaRoche is an internationally known stress-management consultant who advocates humor as a coping mechanism. She uses her wit and wisdom to help people learn how to take stress and turn it into strength, and how to see themselves as the survivors of their own lives--that is, to find the "bless in the mess." Loretta is a favorite with viewers of her five PBS specials; as well as on the lecture circuit, where she presents an average of 100 talks per year. . She is the author of Life Is Short--Wear Your Party Pants hardcover, ISBN: 1401901484; Relax, You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left, ISBN: 0375501452; and Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal, ISBN: 0767906659.