The Stress Prescription is a fascinating exploration of all things stress. So many things in life cause stress. We can't avoid it, so how about we find the best way of managing it. The author did decades worth of research and found a seven day prescription that will help you harness stress through more positive means. Highly recommended! Be sure to check out The Stress Prescription today.

I found this book very informative and informational. I never knew just how much science there is behind stress and how our bodies deal with stress. I liked the style of this book with it being split into seven days/sections. I love the title and the cover it was very eye grabbing and is what initially drew me to want to review it.

THE STRESS PRESCRIPTION (Seven Days to More Joy and Ease) by Elissa Epel (co-author of The Telomere Effect) is part of a series; other titles, also written by experts in their respective fields, include The Love Prescription and The Sleep Prescription. Epel is the director of UCSF's Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center and serves on scientific advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and the Mind & Life Institute. In this primer, she encourages readers to "read a chapter a day or a chapter a week" and offers one new skill (e.g., Embracing Uncertainty and Openness) per chapter. Epel provides a great deal of reassurance and plenty of personal examples, but not as much practical advice as I had envisioned. To me, there was simply too much emphasis on her own stories (e.g., running out of pipettes due to supply chain issues) and less on helping readers to really adopt some lifestyle practices. A positive element is that her suggested activities "need no special equipment, and at most take five to ten minutes." That short timeframe may make her recommendations attractive and "do-able" for readers. Almost twenty percent of the book is devoted to a listing of further reading and resources and extensive notes.