Active Relaxation: How to Increase Productivity and Achieve Balance by Decreasing Stress and Anxiety

Product Description
Work stress, worry, anxiety, fatigue?  Want to learn meditation, mindfulness, time-management, balance, and efficiency?  Active Relaxation is a practical guide for anyone, from executives to mothers, to students, to laborers, who wants to be more productive and less anxious. It contains a plethora of simple and effective tools that help the reader reduce stress and achieve balance. The book is aimed toward people who want to live a more relaxed and balanced lifestyle, but have no time for traditional forms of relaxation, have tried them without success, or fear that relaxing may sacrifice their success.
Review
Dr. Abel presents an array of leading anxiety and stress management strategies. Her fun and engaging writing style cuts right to the core underlying principles.
–Holly Hazlette-Stevens, Ph.D. author of Women Who Worry Too Much

Active Relaxation is filled with great ideas for decreasing stress and living a more productive life! The step-by-step strategies are practical, straightforward, and helpful. –Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP, Author of The Anti-Anxiety Workbook

Dr. Abel has made an excellent and concise suggestion to pare down your worries by implementing what she calls B3’s…individuals will undoubtedly see their worry time decrease.  –Patrick B. McGrath, Ph.D., Author of The OCD Answer Book
From the Author
Hello,

I decided to write this book based on two sets of observations I made in my clinical practice as a psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders.  First, I began to notice that a byproduct of stress and anxiety reduction is improvement in productivity, which allowed more time and thereby greater balance in the individuals I was seeing in therapy.  Second, I noticed that many people are not able to relax effectively with traditional methods of relaxation such as meditation, yoga, and guided imagery and almost ironically can become more relaxed moving.  People with or without ADHD who have problems with concentration and highly motivated people afraid to lose their edge, do best with strategies that they can use while they are working, driving, or otherwise going about their day.  Therefore, over a decade ago, I began to focus more and more on utilizing existing strategies, as well as developing my own, to help people simultaneously reduce stress while improving productivity and balance without ever having to sit quietly; hence the title of my book “Active Relaxation.”  One observation is that once people begin to use active relaxation effectively, they often find themselves able to relax much better sitting still.  I hope you decide to purchase my book and add yourself to the 100’s of people who have found the concepts and tools presented in it to be life-changing.  

About the Author
Dr. Abel attained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at West Virginia University where she specialized in anxiety disorders and behavioral medicine. Her training included a practicum at the Anxiety Disorders Center at Chestnut Ridge Hospital and an internship treating anxiety and running Heart Healthy and Smoking Cessation groups at FCI Morgantown Prison. During residency she gained invaluable experience on the following rotations: Panic Disorders, Eating Disorders, Women’s Issues, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. While at Penn State, Dr. Abel worked exclusively with individuals suffering from a primary diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder where she was promoted to Associate Director of the Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute under the direction of  T.D. Borkovec, a leading expert in the treatment of worry.

Dr. Abel has been in private practice in the St. Louis area specializing in anxiety since 1994. She is published in several professional journals and wrote a pamphlet on worry for The Association for Advancement of Behavioral Therapy. She is quoted in several popular magazines (e.g., Health, Prevention, Glamour) and has participated in severa