Breaking the Stress Cycle, Andrew Bernstein
Breaking the Stress Cycle, Andrew Bernstein
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Breaking the Stress Cycle
7 Steps to Greater Resilience, Happiness, and Peace of Mind

Author: Andrew Bernstein

Narrator: Andrew Bernstein

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2021


Synopsis

Originally published as The Myth of Stress, this revolutionary 7-step program will help change how you think about stress and show you how to easily transform and eliminate stressful thoughts from your personal and professional life.

Where does stress come from? Financial worries? Health issues? Conflicts at work or at home? For more than half a century, we’ve been told that stress is caused by outside pressures and that the best we can do is to breathe, try to relax, and accept that life is hard.

According to Andrew Bernstein, this is all wrong. Spurred by the death of several family members when he was young, Bernstein began a quest to understand the real dynamics of stress and resilience, and discovered that stress doesn’t come from your circumstances—it comes from your thoughts about your circumstances. Consequently, the true antidote to stress is not exercise or physical relaxation, but uncovering these stress-producing thoughts and dismantling them. Bernstein created a simple 7 step-process that helps you do this faster, often with life-changing results.

In Breaking the Stress Cycle, Bernstein shares solutions for how to stop managing stress and break the cycle of ups and downs at its source. Guided worksheets and step-by-step coaching show you how to reframe your thinking on relationships, money, work-life balance, weight loss, discrimination, regret, grief, and more.

With compassion, intelligence, and humor, Breaking the Stress Cycle offers a complete re-education in the nature of stress, and can permanently change the way you handle challenges in all areas of your life.

About Andrew Bernstein

Andrew Bernstein is the founder of the Resilience Academy and creator of ActivInsight. His work is changing the way individuals and organizations around the world understand stress and resilience. His clients include Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, and many others. He lives in New York City with his family. For more information, visit ResilienceAcademy.com.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rose on December 05, 2022

Andrew Bernstein has written a self-help book of the first order. First, he made an original contribution -- no small feat. Second, his systematic presentation reveals his experience. Clearly, Andrew knows whereof he writes... and teaches. Third, the technique has proven very useful for me. Fourth, I fo......more

Goodreads review by Elitsa on May 29, 2019

Most people go through their entire lives without clearly understanding the relationship between thought and emotions, and without realizing that the source of all emotions (positive and negative) is internal. Nothing can make you frustrated. Nothing can make you depressed. Nothing can make you angr......more

Goodreads review by Beth on August 04, 2013

This book totally changed the way that I view stress. It has been a couple of years since I read it and I could use another round of it but it has still changed my life. It helped me to make big decisions in my life and be able to cope with it.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas Geisner on July 24, 2017

Change the way you think of stress! Well written with actionable techniques for changing the way you handle stress. Difficult topics are handled very eloquently. A must reed!......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 04, 2023

an interesting take on how to approach stress by flipping things around on its head and trying to justify why the stressors that you want gone actually make sense to be present. i’ll grant that this technique permits a unique perspective and progress, but i don’t get the feeling that this applies as......more