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2kerrymehome's review against another edition
2.0
I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this. When my mother yells like this it's because she loves me. I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you! How dare you! Learn something from this! When you go to bed at night, you lay there and you take responsibility for yourself - because nobody's going to take responsibility for you.
(an un-actionable, bio-optimization, wellness culture for rich people porridge of words from start to finish. People who can walk 90 minutes a day, afford a cow for noctournal REM sleep milk, and sauna out their depresh were never stressed to begin with.)
(an un-actionable, bio-optimization, wellness culture for rich people porridge of words from start to finish. People who can walk 90 minutes a day, afford a cow for noctournal REM sleep milk, and sauna out their depresh were never stressed to begin with.)
squirrelfish's review against another edition
4.0
Overview of scientific studies on impacts of stress, and ways to better handle stress. It can be repetitive because of the writing style - each chapter focusing on different ways stress can impact the body, and giving ways to address that harm. So for example, sleep habits come up repeatedly. It covers mental techniques, individual foods and habits such as eating times, as well as a great deal on what stresses our body. There's things we can do to cope with immediate stressful situations and ways we can prepare ourselves for long-term stress of things like shift work.
Worth a quick read, my main takeaways are: more soluble fiber, eat during daylight, healthy habit formation techniques, times it's useful to play video games.
Worth a quick read, my main takeaways are: more soluble fiber, eat during daylight, healthy habit formation techniques, times it's useful to play video games.
raechel's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
A lot of this is common sense and it's nice to see TONS of citations to show that they're scientifically backed. Some of the suggestions, if you added them all up, would take up a lot of your time.
ekmoore11's review against another edition
4.0
I was caught by the title when passing it in the library one day. As someone who deals with a pretty high amount of stress, I figured it was worth a try. The book has some good advice and is nicely laid out. I liked that some chapters at the end reiterated the advice given in a bulleted form (though I wish all of them had this feature instead of just some). I thought the information was interesting, and that the author did a good job of breaking it up and not making it too statistical or boring. All in all interesting, and I'll be curious to see how this advice works when I give it a try. Recommend for anyone looking to lessen their stress levels a bit more.
bookhound's review against another edition
5.0
This book was awesome and very relevant for me as someone who tends to favor the “emotional brain” and can think negatively more than I’d like. There’s some really eye-opening information (and some I know but learned a lot more about). The current research on areas related to how the brain and body handle stress along with practical advice for improvement made this fascinating and accessible. I liked the formatting of the book as well. This is probably the best book I’ve read on mind-body connection.
Main subjects: the brain, emotional regulation, cortisol, fostering growth in the rational brain, tuning your body clock, extinguishing inflammation, modulating insulin resistance, motivation, aligning beliefs and goals, and resilience.
*thanks to Goodreads for the giveaway!
Main subjects: the brain, emotional regulation, cortisol, fostering growth in the rational brain, tuning your body clock, extinguishing inflammation, modulating insulin resistance, motivation, aligning beliefs and goals, and resilience.
*thanks to Goodreads for the giveaway!
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