- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Broadway; Reprint edition (April 9 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0767906667
- ISBN-13: 978-0767906661
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.4 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 177 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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#507,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Personal Health > Stress > Humour
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"I would like to see all the world’s great leaders locked in a room with Loretta LaRoche for twenty-four hours. When they’d emerge, they'd be saner, wiser, and happier, and our planet would be better off."
–Larry Dossey M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words
"Loretta LaRoche is a riot! If you want to know why you feel 'spiritually empty' and what to do about it--read this book. Not only will it make you laugh out loud, it will challenge you to rethink the way you live your whole life."
–Cheryl Richardson, author of the New York Times bestsellers Take Time for Your Life and Life Makeovers
“Loretta is one funny lady. As you read this book, you'll be laughing yourself into greater health and wisdom, along with a lot of other people.”
–Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living
–Larry Dossey M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words
"Loretta LaRoche is a riot! If you want to know why you feel 'spiritually empty' and what to do about it--read this book. Not only will it make you laugh out loud, it will challenge you to rethink the way you live your whole life."
–Cheryl Richardson, author of the New York Times bestsellers Take Time for Your Life and Life Makeovers
“Loretta is one funny lady. As you read this book, you'll be laughing yourself into greater health and wisdom, along with a lot of other people.”
–Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living
Book Description
For most of 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 Stress Rehearsal is a breath of fresh air for everyone who's suffocating in our techno-crazed, germ-phobic, "go-go-go" world.
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 Stress Rehearsal is a breath of fresh air for everyone who's suffocating in our techno-crazed, germ-phobic, "go-go-go" world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny and full of good advice,
By Sharon Galligar Chance (Wichita Falls, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World (Paperback)
I found this to be a charming book, which is rare in self-help books. Loretta LaRoche is witty, and her in-your-face style of writing lends a great deal of wisdom and advice in this book. I love her analogies of listening to the "inner Grandmother" instead of the "inner child." It just makes sense.Bravo, Ms. LaRoche, Bravo. - Sharon Galligar Chance
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny and full of good advice,
By Sharon Galligar Chance (Wichita Falls, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World (Paperback)
I found this to be a charming book, which is rare in self-help books. Loretta LaRoche is witty, and her in-your-face style of writing lends a great deal of wisdom and advice in this book. I love her analogies of listening to the "inner Grandmother" instead of the "inner child." It just makes sense.Bravo, Ms. LaRoche, Bravo. - Sharon Galligar Chance
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too much whining!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Lifestyle into Today's Insane World (Audio Cassette)
This could have been a good book, but Ms. LaRoche never lets up on comparing todays lifestyle to that of her grandmother - a useless endeavour. She obviously avails herself of all the modern conveniences - like voice mail, TV, fast food, etc but complains incessantly about the present way of life. The book assumes if we enjoy updated technology or spend a few hours watching sitcoms, that we have lost touch with our families, values etc. Ms.LaRoche is sometimes amusing however she offers little realistic advice.
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