Stress Wisely

How to Be Well in an Unwell World

It’s time to make stress your ally, not your enemy.

Stress is inherent to the human condition. When not properly understood, stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health, our relationships, and our lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

In Stress Wisely, award-winning psychology scholar and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how we can be strategic in stressful times by challenging everything we’ve been told about stress—and wielding its power in our favor.

With her signature honesty, humor, relatability, and intimacy, Dr. Robyne draws on her vast research and real-world experiences in wellness, stress, and resiliency to help you navigate the chaos in the wisest way possible.

Through smart strategies and awareness-raising exercises grounded in science and the eight touchstones of wellness—physical, emotional, intellectual, social, environmental, occupational, financial, and spiritual—Dr. Robyne teaches you how to make your nervous system your ally in every stage of your life (yes, even in the most challenging circumstances).

Life is joyful, complicated, messy, and downright hard at times, AND you are capable to navigate it all. In Stress Wisely, get ready to learn, unlearn, and integrate smart stressing principles for a healthier, more meaningful, and purpose-filled life that is waiting for you. Better days are ahead.

©2023 Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe (P)2023 Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe

Personal and Practical

A solid read that gives you insight on how you can change your perspective. It validates your feelings while instilling you to learn and react in a more productive manner. The book has inquisitive questions and thought provoking chapters. Dr Hanley Defoe talks about her experience to bring it to a real world scenario and how it has helped her. Powerful for passing wisdom.

I realize how important is to make priority in our life what is the purpose or why I am doing and family always come first.

Excellent book that help and provide some techniques help with the stress, amazing, I enjoying each moment of the book.

Insightful but felt a little incomplete

The best realization I had was on burnout but the book seemed short on suggestions to resolve that in particular

Practical stress management tools wrapped up in heartfelt stories

This book was helpful to me in so many ways. Dr. Robyne’s heartfelt stories made it feel personal, but still gave practical and meaningful strategies for managing stress. This was one of the easiest reads/listens I’ve experienced the personal development field. I giggled and even cried. Such a wonderful book! Thank you, Dr. Robyne for being so open and bringing so much love and acceptance to this field.

Book club book

This was a book club book and that is the only reason that I finished it. The biggest thing that stood out to me is that she used the "We'll see" story about the farmer that was also in Bluey. I'm not big on self help books, so I'm not fond of this one. I wouldn't recommend it, but that doesn't mean that someone who actually does like self help books wouldn't enjoy this, so give it a try if you like that genre.