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If you want to get physically fit you start working out. But if you want results, you can´t just do just any workout - you need one tailored to your own body´s needs and personal situation. It´s the same with wellbeing.

What constitutes ´stress´ to one person may be motivating, inspiring and focusing for another. Our capacity for resilience varies depending on individual circumstances and from situation to situation. What is consistent and universal is that we all struggle with stress and resilience, and we all need to be open to figuring out how best to effectively manage stress to create greater personal resilience that will itself help us to cope better.

This book offers you an encyclopaedia of self-help options for you to adapt according to how you tick and to the circumstances you find yourself in at any given moment.

It addresses 60 different issues, and for each one provides a short ´Spotlight´ to understand the issue, ´Top Tips´ for dealing with it, and an ´Action Plan´ to put those tips into practice.

Wellbeing is about managing the ebbs and flows of what life throws at us. It´s a mindset, a personal commitment and an ongoing endeavour. But if we adopt a focused and sustained engagement with this journey, then we´ll learn to embrace and reap the benefits of ´being well´.

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Section A - Stress Management
1. Managing Workload Pressure 2. Choice and Control 3. Task Prioritisation 4. Constructive Criticism and Managing Rejection 5. Maximising Personal Efficiency 6. Dealing with Difficult People 7. Managing conflict at home and work 8. Redundancy and retirement 9. Work satisfaction 10. Effective Delegation 11. To Know or Not to Know 12. How to Get on in Your Career 13. Confident Public Speaking 14. The Myths of Perfectionism 15. Managing Change in Organisations 16. Working with Global Uncertainty 17. Personal Stress Management Toolkit 18. Organisational savviness 19. Networking and Your Dream Team 20. Spotting signs of stress in others
Section B - Personal & Family Life Management
21. Relationship MOT 22. When Relationships End 23. Anxiety Management 24. Living with Depression 25. Changing negative thinking patterns 26. Supporting Elderly Dependents 27. Bereavement and loss 28. Stages in life 29. Help: Asking for It and Finding It 30. Being Childless or Child-Free 31. Pregnancy and birth 32. Parenting Pre-teens 33. Parenting Teenagers 34. When Children Leave Home 35. Embracing a Mid-life Crisis. 36. Addictions 37. Being single 38. Personal Wellness Toolkit 39. Pain Management 40. Coping with illness

Section C - Personal Resilience
41. Personal fulfilment, satisfaction and purpose 42. Work-life balance 43. Personal and professional development 44. Acceptance strategies 45. Emotional Intelligence 46. Assertiveness 47. Constructive Anger 48. Developing self-confidence 49. Setting Meaningful Goals 50. Mindfulness 51. Life Cycle Events: Losses and Gains 52. Rest and Relaxation 53. Looking After Yourself and Self-Care 54. Problem-Focused Resilience 55. Solution-focused Resilience 56. Change-focused Resilience 57. Managing a Crisis 58. Avoiding Burnout 59. How to Tolerate Ambiguity 60. Procrastination.

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"The accessible style allows the reader to draw upon sensible coaching advice for whichever circumstances they may find themselves in, and the reader is empowered to take charge immediately. ... its appeal became clear - not only for clients, but also for practitioners in their own personal journey toward greater resilience and wellbeing." (Lindsay Crago, University & College Counselling, May, 2019)

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