What is stress? A response to your world ; Biological origins of stress -- Understanding your stress. Key sources of stress ; Common and mysterious symptoms of stress -- Stress and your body systems. How chronic stress can harm your health -- Addressing your stress. Healthy responses to stress -- Managing your stress. Lifestyle balance to minimize stress ; Creating a stress-reduction plan -- Severe stress. Handling severe stress and unexpected stress events -- Reducing the stress of people around you. How to become a stress expert ; The future of stress and epigenetics.;"This book aims to give readers a full understanding of the how and why of the human stress response. While once a vital ancient survival tool, our biological stress response may now be in overdrive when confronted by the modern world around us. Research has repeatedly shown that stress can cause physical illness if undetected and unmanaged. This book provides readers with psychological and physical strategies necessary to keep stress from undermining their health, their joy, and the happiness of those around them. These simple and practical strategies help relieve our stress, and the stress of those around us"--