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From balancing work and relationships to navigating financial challenges and health issues-in our hectic and busy lives, stress is simply unavoidable. Fortunately, there are proven-effective techniques you can use every day to combat the negative effects of stress and integrate healthy relaxation habits into your life. The powerful yet simple writing practices in this guided journal can help you get started today.

In The Stress Relief Guided Journal, you’ll explore your own stress response and triggers, and create a personalized action plan for stress reduction. Grounded in evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the prompts in this journal integrate a variety of stress-relieving methods you can implement in your life when stress becomes overwhelming-including progressive relaxation, self-hypnosis, visualization, and mindfulness.

If you’re looking to find a place of calm and respite in the midst of our busy world, this journal can be that place. Just write, explore, and make it yours.

Written by renowned mental health and wellness experts, New Harbinger’s Journals for Change combine evidence-based psychology with proven-effective guided journaling techniques to help you make lasting personal change-one page at a time.

Reviews

Jeffrey C. Wood, PsD, coauthor of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook and The New Happiness
This is a book that should be on every adult's reading list and handed out to every child in school. Let's face it, the world is a stressful place, and we all need to learn to relax. This book will show you how with a fun, easy-to-use journal.
Jeffrey Brantley, MD, emeritus professor in the department of psychiatry at Duke Medical Center, founder of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program at Duke Integrative Medicine, and coauthor of 5 Good Minutes of Mindfulness
The Stress Relief Journal is a friendly and empowering aid for anyone who wishes to do more to help themselves. By inviting the reader to use their natural mindfulness to notice and record their present-moment experience while engaging in a variety of mind-body practices, the authors have provided an accessible, helpful, and transformative path into the realm of mindful awareness and mind-body healing.
Elena Welsh, PhD, author of 5-Minute Stress Relief and The Panic Deck
The Stress Relief Guided Journal provides research-backed tools in an approachable and user-friendly tone. Actively managing stress has huge health and mental health benefits, and this journal is an easy way to get started.