Sacred Stress

A Radically Different Approach to Using Life's Challenges for Positive Change

George R. Faller, The Rev. Dr. Heather Wright (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2016
SkyLight Paths Publishing,US (Verlag)
978-1-68336-275-3 (ISBN)

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Learn how to understand and use stress for positive change. With up-to-date analysis, real-life examples and spiritual practices, this book explores the effects of stress and ways to honor its symptoms. Rather than being limited by a perspective of distress, you can use stress as a catalyst for growth in all areas of life.

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 good: 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.

George R. Faller, MS, LMFT, a lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department for twenty years who participated in 9/11 rescue efforts, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy supervisor, and an Emotionally Focused certified therapist, supervisor and trainer. He is also the founder and president of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy and teaches at the Ackerman Institute in Manhattan. The Rev. Dr. Heather Wright, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is a licensed professional counselor and executive director for a faith-based counseling center. She taught graduate-level counseling and pastoral theology and served as a board certified chaplain. She is the author of Redeeming Eve: Finding Hope beyond the Struggles of Life and Small Group Leadership as Spiritual Direction.

Prologue: Our Stories
Introduction

Part 1: How Stress Affects Our Interior World
1. Reframing Thinking: Expanding Our Perspective
2. Creating Connections: Learning to Embrace Our Emotions
3. Opening the Door to Transformation: Knowing and Naming Our Emotions

Part 2: How Stress Breaks and Makes Relationships
4. Nurturing the Ultimate Connection: Romantic Relationships, Sex, and Stress
5. Enjoying the Wild Ride: Parenting and Stress

Part 3: How External Realities Shape Our Stress
6. Breaking a Dependency: Handling Money with Integrity
7. Claiming Strength and Resiliency: Overcoming the Wounds of Trauma

Epilogue: Befriending Stress
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2016
Verlagsort	Woodstock
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-68336-275-6 / 1683362756
ISBN-13	978-1-68336-275-3 / 9781683362753
Zustand	Neuware