Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom into Today's Insane World - Softcover

An international consultant and expert in the field of stress management presents an honest and entertaining look at how to slow down and enjoy life, explaining how to cope with the high-tech insanity and fast pace of the modern world in chapters ranging from "Who Cares? You're Gonna Die Anyway" to "Just Have Some Lasagna and Shut Up!" Reprint.

us, life has become such a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing, and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Guided by the timeless wisdom of her grandmother Francesca, renowned stress coach and humorist Loretta LaRoche makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time, when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach.

In Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal, Loretta takes an honest and hilarious look at the gizmos, self-help regimens, talking heads, comfort products, nutrition plans, and sexual freedoms that we have all come to believe will make our lives better. She shows us that in many ways, they’re filling our lives with more stress and insanity and keeping us isolated from the thing that matters most in any healthy life: real human connection. With Loretta’s contemporary wit and a hearty dose of Francesca's old-world wisdom, Life Is Not a Stre