Healthy habits of thought lead to the outcomes you want including great relationships, good health, and academic, career, and sporting success. You can know, in each moment, if the thoughts you are thinking are healthy. When you know you are thinking an unhealthy thought, you can use the empowering strategies in this book to change your thoughts to healthier ones. When it comes to coping skills, only Advanced and Transformational Stress Management Skills permanently reduce stress and make your life better every day. Almost all mental and physical illnesses can be traced back to chronic stress. Dr. Joy's groundbreaking work takes stress management to a new level. Moving away from defining emotions as positive and negative, Dr. Joy takes the conversation to the thoughts that cause the emotional response. Dr. Joy's work puts Advanced Stress Management Strategies in everyone's toolkit. Advanced Stress Management Strategies are quick, pro-active, healthy ways to reduce stress as it occurs. Transformational Stress Management Strategies change the way your automatic thoughts process the events in your life so that your initial thoughts are less stressful. Before this breakthrough, the most common stress management strategies didn't do anything more than give your mind a break. They didn't change the stress the situation created. Stress Management skills are critical because life is stressful and people who do not have good skills will use what is available, which often includes Dysfunctional strategies that quickly make things worse and Maladaptive strategies that slowly make things worse. Think of your thoughts as seeds. If you want to grow corn you don't want your thoughts to plant brussel sprouts. Everything you care about, including relationships, health, wealth, fun, and success turns out the way it does because of the thoughts you think. Good mental health no longer has to be random. Replace habits of thought that make your life more difficult than it has to be with habits of thought that make your life more fun. Dr. Joy has helped thousands of people reduce stress and improve their mental health using the same strategies you'll learn in this book. Her evidence-based, experience-informed methods integrate many scientific disciplines including emotion regulation, motivation, organizational behavior, positive psychology, organizational behavior, teams, resilience, self-determination, and self-control. She developed The Smart Way(TM) which is the name she uses to describe the combination of knowledge and skills you'll learn in this book. Dr. Joy is the founder and CEO of Happiness 1st Institute, a Thrive More Now Company. This book will make your life better every day. Why wait another day? Start enjoying life more now.
About the Author: Dr. Joy is an award-winning writer who teaches people to use their brain more intelligently. She is a lateral thinker who aggregates research from many different disciplines to create practical solutions that help people increase success, reduce stress, and improve relationships at work and home. She began researching resilience with one goal: to find out what makes some humans thrive in spite of adversity. She discovered that resilience shares a root cause with every area that affects human thriving including relationships of all types, physical, mental, behavioral, and emotional health, and success in academics, career, and sports. Jeanine read over 6,000 scientific journal articles while writing eight books that cover topics that include: Employee Engagement, Burnout Prevention and Recovery, Resilience and Retention, Positive Health Promotion, Maintaining and Restoring Mental Health, Building Resilience, Social and Emotional Learning, and Suicide Prevention. Her work is informed by research from many different scientific disciplines, affording her a deeper understanding of solutions. You can find her articles published in Forbes, Psychiatry Today, Becker's Hospital Review, Huffington Post, Apple News, and other respected publications. Dr. Joy teaches The Smart WayTM. She is a sought-after public speaker who loves to travel. Prior to forming Happiness 1st Institute, Jeanine did primary research in human thriving while concurrently working in the financial services industry. Her final role in her 1st career was as the Director of Compliance and Risk Management for a nationwide wealth management company. She combines her knowledge of risk management and psychology to help organizations understand and mitigate risk from psychosocial stress at work. Jeanine has an engaging way of sharing complex subjects that make them seem simple, creating ah-ha moments that frequently lead audiences to wonder why they hadn't seen what becomes clear as soon as she explains it. Like Columbus's Egg, she makes the difficult easy to understand and replicate. Her more recent books are written more for the less scientific reader who just wants to know the processes that work to reduce stress, increase happiness, and regulate emotions in healthy ways. The work remains grounded in solid science but it focuses on teaching the reader about strategies that we know work because of the science instead of teaching them about the research.