Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World - Softcover

Laroche, Loretta

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9780767906661: Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World

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ISBN 10: 0767906667 ISBN 13: 9780767906661

Publisher: Broadway, 2002

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For most of us, life has become such a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing, and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Guided by the timeless wisdom of her grandmother Francesca, renowned stress coach and humorist Loretta LaRoche makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time, when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach.

In Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal, Loretta takes an honest and hilarious look at the gizmos, self-help regimens, talking heads, comfort products, nutrition plans, and sexual freedoms that we have all come to believe will make our lives better. She shows us that in many ways, they’re filling our lives with more stress and insanity and keeping us isolated from the thing that matters most in any healthy life: real human connection. With Loretta’s contemporary wit and a hearty dose of Francesca's old-world wisdom, Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal is a breath of fresh air for everyone who's suffocating in our techno-crazed, germ-phobic, "go-go-go" world.

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"I would like to see all the world’s great leaders locked in a room with Loretta LaRoche for twenty-four hours. When they’d emerge, they'd be saner, wiser, and happier, and our planet would be better off."
–Larry Dossey M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words

"Loretta LaRoche is a riot! If you want to know why you feel 'spiritually empty' and what to do about it--read this book. Not only will it make you laugh out loud, it will challenge you to rethink the way you live your whole life."
–Cheryl Richardson, author of the New York Times bestsellers Take Time for Your Life and Life Makeovers

“Loretta is one funny lady. As you read this book, you'll be laughing yourself into greater health and wisdom, along with a lot of other people.”
–Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living

About the Author:

An international consultant and lecturer in the field of stress management for more than twenty years, LORETTA LAROCHE is the author of Relax! You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left (more than 50,000 copies sold). Her three PBS specials were highly acclaimed, and her motivational videos have sold more than 200,000 copies. Also an adjunct faculty member for the Behavioral Institute of Medicine, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, she lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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