Learning how to effectively deal with stress is one of life’s greatest challenges. Life can get overwhelming when balancing the family, the job, the friends, the diet, the checkbook…and everything else in between. Ruth Klein, the De-Stress Diva™, offers 77 easy and effective ways to de-stress every aspect of life in THE DE-STRESS DIVA’S GUIDE TO LIFE: 77 Ways to Recharge, Refocus, and Organize Your Life (Wiley, October 2008; $14.95). These practical tips and techniques can be put to work immediately to rebalance and re-energize every aspect of life. 

According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly 50% of Americans state that they need help learning how to manage stress, and 80% report they feel stress on the job. A 2007 national survey by the American Psychological Association (APA) finds that money and work are the biggest stressors for almost 75% of Americans.  The survey found that 48% of Americans believe their stress has increased over the past five years. 

Too much stress can lead to anxiety disorders – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that forty million Americans, 18% of adults over the age of eighteen, suffer from some form of anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. 

When people are stressed out, they don't want a lecture on how to manage their time or to read a lengthy article on ways to make their lives easier. Instead, they want quick and easy answers and on-target suggestions they can use immediately. 

THE DE-STRESS DIVA’S GUIDE TO LIFE is separated into sections, each one addressing such specific problems as the holidays, clutter, time, diets, body aches, bills, and demanding colleagues. Then Klein offers solutions in order alleviate these stressful life situations. There are many different ways to relieve stress, including creative experiences, aromatherapy, acupressure, time-saving tips, homeopathic, and dietary means. Having a selection of things to trying out is a way to find out what works best for the individual. 

Klein uses these strategies to help women streamline their day-to-day experience, increase efficiency and meet the demands of personal and professional life with less stress. Many of these tips take less time than teeth brushing, and their effects can be noticed immediately. No matter what goals the readers set up for themselves; the key is to recognize the obstacles and then chart a course of action to overcome them. This is the ultimate secret in resolving stress.

THE DE-STRESS DIVA’S GUIDE TO LIFE makes coping with the stress of life so much easier, and readers will also learn to use stress effectively and creatively in a way that energizes rather than stresses. By using the tips in THE DE-STRESS DIVA’S GUIDE TO LIFE, readers will benefit from workable solutions to common stressors, and concrete, motivating ways to reach their goals. THE DE-STRESS DIVA’S GUIDE TO LIFE allows the reader to take immediate action to relieve stress and become healthier, happier, and more relaxed.