Rethinking Stress

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.