How to Make Stress Work for You

Course Overview

Join a fitness consultant and popular instructor for a fascinating look at how to finally control your stress.

Trying to live a completely stress-free life is unrealistic. The true goal is to manage stress effectively, using it to build a meaningful and resilient life. In this course, consisting of 18 enriching lectures, you’ll discover how to manage and minimize stress in your life. You’ll explore various types of stress, including traumas, moderate stressors, and everyday irritants, along with the emotional responses that accompany them.

Dr. Bonura presents scientifically-backed techniques, behavior modifications, and exercises to help you build a personalized toolkit for managing your stress response. You will learn about responsible detachment from stressful situations, the importance of ruminating after trauma, and how physical affection aids healing among many other strategies, all rooted in research and case studies.

Course Content

01: A New Mindset about Stress (32 min)

02: Happiness: A Fickle Queen (34 min)

03: Anger: A Tyrannical King (35 min)

04: Swimming in an Ocean of Sorrow (32 min)

05: Why You Stress: Arousal and Value Judgment (32 min)

06: Choose Your Adventure: Choose Your Stress (29 min)

07: Heaven and Hell Can Be Other People (32 min)

08: Our Overstressed, Overscheduled Kids (35 min)

09: Change Your Mind to Change Your Stress (31 min)

10: Emergency Stress Management (31 min)

11: Good Stress Helps You Handle All Stress (31 min)

12: The Stress of Learning and Mastery (32 min)

13: Alternative Approaches to Stress (32 min)

14: Mindfulness: Heart Healing to Manage Stress (34 min)

15: Channeling Stress for a Competitive Edge (29 min)

16: Emerging Stress Management Technology (34 min)

17: Rest, Restore, Recover Your Resilience (31 min)

18: Learning from Your Stress (34 min)