Less Stress, More Calm: Discover Your Unique Stress Personality and Make It Your Superpower

by Lauren Hodges, Ed.D.

Overview

Each stress personality chapter highlights “stress resets” and unique “superpowers” to use to shift your mindset, get to know your inner voice more intimately, and learn what parts of yourself under stress might actually be used as golden opportunities for growth. 
 
“The point of this book is to learn how to manage and control how you uniquely show up under stress: your stress personality. Stress isn’t the problem,” writes the author.
 
Less Stress, More Calm isn’t just another self-help book with one-size-fits-all vague and generalized concepts. Years of research and personal experience have led author Lauren Hodges, EdD., to a local, national, and internationally successful career providing proven, adaptable, and easily implemented strategies for living a calmer, more enjoyable life with less stress.
 
The author’s quirky sense of humor, community compassion, scientific insight, and devotion to her field of expertise in human performance and well-being bring you to a sense of self otherwise unknown or yet understood.
 
Less Stress, More Calm identifies and defines eight Stress Personalities:

• The Fighter
• The Runner
• The Worrier
• The Freezer
• The Pleaser
• The Negative Self-Talker
• The Distracted
• The Thriver

After readers identify their stress personality (or personalities – they’re not locked into one), they are provided practical and specific steps to better managing stress, including:

• interactive exercises
• a no-wrong-answers stress inventory
• thought-provoking, reflective questions
• interesting science lessons
• dozens of stress reset strategies

Readers will learn to better recognize themselves under stress and take action to recover so they can show up as their best more often for people and relationships that matter most, at work and at home.
 
From reef diving in the Florida Keys to Michael Jordan to a Navy SEAL to powerful client stories and testimonies, Less Stress, More Calm is the perfect combination of serious, fun, and real-life examples of what works and what doesn’t when aiming for a life with less stress and more calm!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640954793
Publisher:	Sound Wisdom
Publication date:	04/02/2024
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	483,860
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Hodges is a consultant, speaker, and owner of Performance on Purpose, LLC, a human performance coaching and training company. Lauren is a globally renown expert in human performance and learning sciences who has spent the last 17 years consulting with Fortune 50, 100, and 500 companies on their well-being and human performance strategies. Working alongside companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Thrive Global, Accenture, Estee Lauder Companies, United Airlines, Avery Dennison, and more, Lauren leverages her expertise and experience to equip individuals and their teams with the tools needed to move beyond burnout to thrive in life and at work. She lives in Satellite Beach, Florida with her husband and two boys.

Table of Contents

Preface, 13; PART I, THE BACKSTORY, 15; Chapter 1, The Scene, 16; Chapter 2, The Science, 31; Chapter 3, The Solution—Stress Reset, 57; Chapter 4, The Rules, 70; PART II, STRESS PERSONALITIES, 85; Chapter 5, The Fighter, 86; Chapter 6, The Runner, 112; Chapter 7, The Worrier, 135; Chapter 8, The Freezer, 157; Chapter 9, The Pleaser, 181; Chapter 10, The Negative Self-Talker, 209; Chapter 11, The Distracted, 237; Chapter 12, The Thriver, 267; PART III, INSIGHT TO ACTION, 291; Chapter 13, The Interaction, 292; Chapter 14, Thriver Accelerators for Every Stress Personality, 312; Chapter 15, The Bottom Line, 346; Notes, 365; About the Author, 379