Rethinking Stress - by Shari Becker (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

At a time when life feels intensely unsettling, a clinical psychologist shares new perspectives on stress, details effective coping strategies, and presents a road map for developing stress resilience.

Rethinking Stress invites you to discover a new perspective on one of life's most common challenges. This guide reframes stress as a useful signal that your existing coping resources may be falling short of your current challenges. When you recognize that your ability to respond flexibly and effectively to life's ups and downs determines your well-being, stress can serve as inspiration for increased self-awareness, personal growth, and resilience.

Drawing on psychology, Eastern wisdom, and real-life experience, clinical psychologist Shari Becker provides vibrant, compelling, and relatable anecdotes from both her personal life and clinical work to help readers recognize that they, too, can make meaningful changes to improve the quality of their lives--and turn stress into a pathway from overwhelm to well-being. With Becker's effective, no-cost skills, strategies, and systems in your coping toolbox, you will learn to shift your perspective, regulate your emotions, and create life-enhancing habits. From daily pressures to deeper challenges, Rethinking Stress will help you live with greater ease and resilience--no matter what life brings your way.

Review Quotes

"A moving selection of stories and a toolbox full of practical suggestions, Shari Becker's book is a guide to a better life."--Mark Epstein, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Zen of Therapy and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart

"Shari Becker bravely confronts what distresses us and creates a workable plan for using resources you never knew you had. With clarity, compassion and insight, she shifts the emphasis from life's stressors to developing strategies and systems that will strengthen your well-being."--Sue Klavans Simring, MSW, PhD, adjunct associate professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and coauthor of Making Marriage Work for Dummies and Blindspots

"In a time when stress is over the top, causing inflammation in minds and bodies, we need clear, practical, and effective strategies to help us experience stress differently. Through no-cost strategies based on her personal and deep clinical experience, Dr. Becker helps us develop a resource toolbox that includes mindfulness, self-compassion, somatic awareness, gratitude, and other skills that strengthen our well-being."--Jeffrey D. Rediger, MD, MDiv, lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of CURED

"Just when you think you've read it all about stress and mindfulness, Shari Becker comes in like a breath of fresh air with new perspectives, practices, and ideas to manage life's challenges."--Christopher Willard, PsyD, psychologist, faculty at Harvard Medical School, and author of We Grow Through What We Go Through

"Rethinking Stress is a great example of what happens when you take your yoga practice off the mat and into the real world. I loved reading Shari's stories and seeing how she's taken the philosophy of power yoga and brought it into her work as a psychologist. She's created another tool to help people deal with stress, live with more awareness, and ultimately do life a little better."--Bryan Kest, founder of Power Yoga and author of Autobiography of an American Yogi

"Dr. Becker has a remarkable ability to explain complex psychological ideas with clarity and warmth . . . a thoughtful and accessible resource for understanding stress and offering practical tools for managing life better."--Laura Epstein Rosen, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist and author of When Someone You Love Is Depressed

About the Author

Shari Becker, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, yoga instructor, meditation teacher, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and former corporate real estate attorney. Dr. Becker has a private psychotherapy practice and offers workshops and webinars on mental health topics, including stress-resilience, self-care, mindful lifestyle, and emotional eating. She lives and works in Bergen County, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City.