Book description
Find the optimal level of stress and wellness for your life and
career-the essential guide for women
If you're one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of
self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the
most important emotional and physical problems you face every day.
Stress is inevitable, but this book shows you how to embrace it and
use it. The key lies in learning how to transform harmful reactions
into healthy responses.
Optimal Stress offers a new way to view, organize, and shape
your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or
demand in your life. Its approach helps you develop a crucial
understanding of what stress is, what it is not, and most importantly,
how to find the right stress-health balance.
- Clarifies the link between stress and medical disorders such as:
heart disease, immune disorders, diabetes, and gastrointestinal issues
- Explains three key principles-Priorities, Passions, and
Purpose-to help you understand and handle stress
- Shares data as well as other women's true stories, feelings, and
insights about stress
- Reveals that stress is a process, with emotional, psychological,
behavioral, biological and physical components
- Helps you find a renewed sense of meaning, coherence, and
balance in your life through discovery of your personal BestStress Zone
- Gets you in touch with your unique physical and personality
traits and life circumstances that contribute to stress
Don't let stress overwhelm you-discover Optimal Stress and
regain balance in your life.
Carol J. Scott, M. D., M. S.Ed., FACEP, is a
stress-management strategist for organizations and individuals. Dr.
Scott trained in internal medicine at Duke University and emergency
medicine at Johns Hopkins. She is a highly sought-after keynote
speaker, coach, and consultant for such clients as Microsoft,
McDonald's, Civil Service Employees Association NY (CSEA), IBM,
Merrill Lynch, Discovery Communications, and Johnson & Johnson.
She has spoken for the Florida, Pennsylvania, and California
Governor's Conference for Women. She has been a keynote speaker at the
Working Mother 100 Best Companies Work Life Congress. Her work has
been featured in Fast Company and she has been cited in the Wall
Street Journal and the Washington Post. She has been
heard on several radio shows, including the WOR Saturday Morning
Show with Joe Bartlett, the Bev Smith Show, Martha
Stewart Living Radio, and Doug Stephan's Good Day. She is
married with two sons.
