Unwind!, Michael Olpin
Unwind!, Michael Olpin
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Unwind!
7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

Author: Michael Olpin, Sam Bracken, Dr. Daniel Amen

Narrator: Sam Bracken

Unabridged: 4 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/05/2014

Synopsis

This book by Michael Olpin, a top-notch stress expert, and Sam Bracken, a no longer stressed-out writer, stands out from other books on stress management in one significant way: its “whole-person” approach. Unwind! is about optimizing your body, heart, mind, and soul, recognizing that any and all of these dimensions of your life affect your anxiety level. It helps you get clear about who you are as well as your priorities and goals. The authors show you how to take charge of your life and how to make better choices that will prevent stress in the first place.The authors explore seven key paradigm shifts, from reactive to proactive; unmotivated to inspired; pressured to prioritized; hassled to harmonious; anxious to empathic; defensive to diverse; and tense to tranquil. Delving deep into each of these paradigm shifts, readers learn how to prevent most of the daily stresses people typically experience, by getting at the roots of stressors.

About Michael Olpin

Dr. Michael Olpin is director of the groundbreaking Stress Relief Center at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Coauthor of the popular college textbook Stress Management for Life: A Research-Based Experiential Approach, he runs the website StressManagementPlace.com to help people everywhere discover that “the world is not a stressful place.” A lifelong athlete, Michael is usually out biking and running in the beautiful mountains of northern Utah, where he lives with his wife and four kids.

About Sam Bracken

Homeless at age fifteen, Sam Bracken graduated near the top of his Las Vegas high school class, landing a football scholarship to the Georgia Institute of Technology. On his arrival there, everything he owned fit in a duffel bag, hence the title of his renowned graphic mini-memoir, My Orange Duffel Bag. Sam lives with his wife and four children in Utah, where he serves as global director of media for FranklinCovey and leader of the Orange Duffel Bag Foundation, a nonprofit for rescuing at-risk youth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on August 21, 2015

This book compiles lots of good habits to establish in our lives. Top ways this book has challenged me. 1. Focused breathing. 2. Step back from situations to avoid fight or flight responses. 3. Fight or flight response is for life and death situations not to be sustained for more than a few seconds.......more

Goodreads review by Anil on June 11, 2019

Drawing copiously from Steven Covey's seminal book , "Seven Habits of Highly Successful Men", Olpin provides for a do-able prescription on how to avoid stress, arguably the biggest killer in the world. He quotes from Covey's book to drive home a pertinent point :'The moment you think that the proble......more

Goodreads review by Dana * on September 18, 2014

A simple straightforward listing of approaches to thoughts and actions to destress your life. Not just to calm down but to avoid stress by examining its causes. Nothing mindbendingly new, so if you read this type of thing often this is a repeat. But if this is new to you, you will find it very useful......more

Goodreads review by Mike on October 05, 2020

"Cocooning is the practice of retreating into your private space and avoiding personal contact with other people. We feel safer in our cocoons. We resent having to leave them." (p. 111). 2020 just said, "Hold my beer." I'm working on making friends with the stress in my life and I work with this profes......more

Goodreads review by Nitin on August 05, 2020

Brilliant!! A must read for everyone considering the circumstances!!......more

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