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Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach to Using Life's Challenges for Positive Change
Stress is a part of modern life―discover how to use it to grow spiritually, emotionally and psychologically. "Stress takes life and gives life.... It can propel us forward into new opportunities but can also hold us back in fear and exhaustion. It is our mission to help you learn how to adopt [new] strategies and turn stress into a positive force in your life."
―from the Introduction Stress can limit our perspective, leaving us feeling trapped and out of control. But stress can also be a force for It is our challenges that most compel us to reach out for relationship. And our proudest moments come after overcoming obstacles we thought were insurmountable. Based on personal experience and their work as therapists, and drawing on decades of psychological research, George R. Faller, MS, LMFT, and The Rev. Dr. Heather Wright have come to see that stress can be healthy and positive. They equip us with the skills and the knowledge we need to reframe our thinking about stress, understand and embrace our darker emotions, and become stronger through difficulty.
―from the Introduction Stress can limit our perspective, leaving us feeling trapped and out of control. But stress can also be a force for It is our challenges that most compel us to reach out for relationship. And our proudest moments come after overcoming obstacles we thought were insurmountable. Based on personal experience and their work as therapists, and drawing on decades of psychological research, George R. Faller, MS, LMFT, and The Rev. Dr. Heather Wright have come to see that stress can be healthy and positive. They equip us with the skills and the knowledge we need to reframe our thinking about stress, understand and embrace our darker emotions, and become stronger through difficulty.
176 pages, Paperback
Published April 22, 2016
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April 30, 2018
A wonderful book about the usefulness of stress in our lives. Also very helpful in describing how stress impacts our primary relationships. I've used excerpts of the book to teach Emotionally Focused Therapy to graduate students.
June 19, 2024
Helpful principles for noticing, naming, and dealing with our emotions - especially in relationships.
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