Stress Management Workbook

£19.99

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If your brain has not switched off in months — if you wake up already mentally compiling the list, if you fall asleep still running unfinished conversations, if "I'm just so stressed" has become the answer you give without thinking — this workbook was written for you.

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STRESS MANAGEMENT WORKBOOK | 442 Pages CBT · ACT · CFT — Evidence-Based Clinical Programme Designed by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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Chronic stress is not just "being busy." It is a psychological and physiological system — one in which sustained pressure, perfectionism, mental load, rumination, and a body locked in chronic activation

keep each other running. The longer the system runs, the more "stress" stops feeling like a state and starts feeling like the shape of your life.

This workbook does two things: it shows you precisely how that system maintains itself, and it gives you the structured clinical tools — CBT, ACT, and CFT — to interrupt the build-up, redistribute the pressure, and rebuild a nervous system that knows how to settle again.

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WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO BY THE END

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✦ Recognise the early signals of stress build-up before they become collapse

✦ Map your specific stress drivers — what loads you, what compounds, what cannot be removed

✦ Use CBT tools to challenge the "I have to" and "I should" thinking that runs underneath chronic stress

✦ Redistribute responsibility and mental load instead of absorbing it all

✦ Reduce the perfectionism and over-responsibility that turn manageable demands into overwhelming ones

✦ Catch rumination earlier and disengage from it without forcing your mind quiet

✦ Use ACT-based skills to choose your action when the feeling will not pass

✦ Apply nervous-system grounding for the moments your body is stuck in activation

✦ Build sustainable structure, recovery, and boundary practices for high-demand lives

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FORMS OF STRESS THIS WORKBOOK ADDRESSES

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✦ Chronic stress that has outlasted its original cause

✦ Work-related and high-pressure-lifestyle stress

✦ Stress from caregiving, parenting, or sustained responsibility

✦ Mental load — the invisible cognitive labour of running a life

✦ Stress driven by perfectionism, over-responsibility, or hyper-vigilance

✦ Stress with anxiety, sleep disturbance, or low-grade burnout overlap

✦ The "high-functioning" stress that does not look like a problem to anyone else

✦ Stress that has plateaued despite "self-care" and time off

If you have been telling yourself "I just need a holiday" for years

and the rest never quite arrives, the answer is almost always: rest

is not the missing variable. The system itself needs adjusting.

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THE THREE THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES INSIDE

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✦ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) — for identifying and shifting the unhelpful beliefs that drive sustained stress: over-responsibility, perfectionism, intolerance of uncertainty, and the "if I don't, it won't get done" loop.

✦ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — for the parts of life that are genuinely difficult and cannot be optimised away. The skill of choosing your direction even when the feelings have not resolved.

✦ Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) — for the inner driver that speaks to you in deadlines and demands. High-functioning people under chronic stress are often the harshest on themselves; CFT addresses the layer most stress-management content ignores.

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WHO THIS WORKBOOK IS FOR

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✔ People living with chronic stress, mental load, or low-grade overwhelm

✔ High-functioning professionals whose stress does not look like a crisis from the outside

✔ Those whose nervous system has been on for so long they have forgotten what off feels like

✔ People who have read the articles, downloaded the apps, taken weekends off — and the stress comes straight back

✔ Anyone on NHS or private therapy waiting lists for stress or anxiety

✔ Individuals between therapy sessions wanting structured work in the meantime

✔ Therapists and practitioners seeking a structured, evidence-based client resource

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ABOUT THIS RESOURCE

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Created by Dr Jo Stuart, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, 25+ years of experience supporting people through chronic stress, burnout, anxiety, and psychological overload) — and Fleur Lisa Dumonbreville, CEO and senior operational leader.

This is not "take a bubble bath." It is a structured, 442-page clinical programme in digital workbook form — the depth and rigour you would expect from a private psychology practice, made accessible

without the waiting list and without the four-figure cost.

A standard course of private psychological therapy for chronic stress in the UK runs to 8–16 sessions at £80–£150 per session — typically £640–£2,400. This workbook costs less than a single private session.

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PRODUCT DETAILS

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✦ Format: PDF — fillable digitally or printable at home

✦ Pages: 442

✦ Delivery: instant download immediately after purchase

✦ Compatible with Adobe Acrobat, Mac Preview, iPad with GoodNotes or Notability, and any standard PDF reader

✦ Lifetime access — no subscription, no expiry

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PLEASE NOTE

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This workbook is a self-guided psychological resource. It is not a replacement for professional clinical care. If you are in crisis, experiencing burnout severe enough that daily functioning has collapsed, or having thoughts of self-harm, please speak with your GP, NHS 111, or the Samaritans (116 123 — free, 24/7).

Due to the digital nature of this product, refunds are not possible once the file has been downloaded.

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If stress has been the background noise of your life for longer than you can remember, this is where you begin to turn the volume down. Not by removing the demands. By changing the system that

keeps amplifying them.