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Life is stressful. There’s just no getting around it. But while everyday stressors are a fact of life, that doesn’t mean they have to control you. Rather, with the right scientific understanding, you can actually make stress work for you instead of against you. Trying to live a completely stress-free life is a zero-sum game. The true goal of your relationship with stress is to figure out how to manage it effectively; how to use it to build and support a meaningful, resilient life. In these 18 enriching and inspiring lectures, discover how to manage and minimize the stress in your life. You’ll explore the nuances of stress in ways you never really considered. These include types of stress (such as traumas, moderate stressors, and activities of daily life) and the idea that what you experience in life is really just your brain’s response (using memory and reasoning) to raw input and stimuli. You’ll also explore the relationship between emotion and stress, including the idea that expressing your rage could actually be making you angrier. Dr. Bonura fills these lectures with scientifically-backed techniques, behavior modifications, and exercises you can use to build a personalized toolkit to better manage your stress response. You’ll learn about responsible detachment from stressful situations, the importance of ruminating right after a traumatic event, the ways physical affection helps with healing, and much more. Rooted in scientific findings from experiments, research papers, and case studies, these lectures offer you nothing less than a bold new way of facing (and appreciating) daily life.
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Topic Better Living Subtopic Health & Wellness How to Make Stress Work for You Course Guidebook Kimberlee Bethany Bonura Fitness and Wellness Consultant PUBLISHED BY: THE GREAT COURSES Corporate Headquarters 4840 Westfields Boulevard, Suite 500 Chantilly, Virginia 20151-2299 Phone: 1-800-832-2412 Fax: 703-378-3819 www.thegreatcourses.com Copyright © The Teaching Company, 2017 Printed in the United States of America This book is in copyright. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of The Teaching Company. Kimberlee Bethany Bonura, Ph.D. Fitness and Wellness Consultant K imberlee Bethany Bonura earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Florida State University, with a research focus in Sport and Exercise Psychology and graduate certificates in Program Evaluation and Educational Measurement and Statistics. Her doctoral dissertation, The Impact of Yoga on Psychological Health in Older Adults, won national awards from the American Psychological Association (Division 47) and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). Dr. Bonura serves as a peer reviewer and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. She is also a peer reviewer for the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, The Journal of Social Change, and the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology. Dr. Bonura serves as a member of the Master’s Thesis Award Review Committee for the AASP and as a peer reviewer for the annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, as well as the annual conferences of the American Educational Research Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Association. She served as editor in chief of the Yoga Alliance newsletter Yoga Matters from 2002 to 2004. i Dr. Bonura has been practic