How to Overcome Stress. Body Practices to Reduce Depression and Improve Well-Being

Today, stress is the "new normal". If left unchecked, it dictates what we think, how we feel, and how we act. Overwhelm, nervousness, and despondency become such habitual states that we start to forget how to live differently.
On the very... first pages of psychotherapist Rebekah Ladain's book, you will find practical exercises to help determine your stress level, your individual triggers that cause it, and how your body reacts to what is happening. This self-diagnosis will allow you to choose the right tools from the entire arsenal of anti-stress methods that the author offers. Powerful practices of body-oriented therapy will help reset the survival mode settings in which anxiety compels you to live. And by performing exercises to stimulate the vagus nerve, you will learn not only to ease your overly acute reaction to stress but also to develop psychological resilience. You will be able to maintain calmness in almost any circumstance.