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LaRoche is Erma Bombeck with a wellness agenda. A motivational speaker with her own company, The Humor Potential, LaRoche has been featured on PBS and serves on the faculty of Boston's Mind-Body Institute. Her theme: laughter is important for reducing stress and maintaining a healthy life. In chapters with headings such as "If you don't have to suffer, don't practice" and "How to prevent hardening of the attitudes," LaRoche dispenses practical wisdom laced with laughter and lampoons the human potential movement while subtly delivering its most important messages. Using illustrations from "the committee," her Italian American extended family, she encourages women to look for the humor in every situation ("look at parts of your life as a sitcom, with you as the star") and use it to defuse stress. Included are addresses of organizations and a list of resources for "health, healing and humor." Recommended for popular psychology collections.ALucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Loretta LaRoche has been called the "Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"--and in this helpful and entertaining book her enormous talent for finding the funny details to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper. Filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes and specific advice for coming to terms with today's ever-increasing stress levels, it's a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter. LaRoche dismantles our predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives with the healing power of the absurd.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Relax - You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the power of humor to overcome stress in your life and work (Hardcover)
I checked this book out of the library to help me during a depression. I'd already watched Loretta's video, "The Joy of Stress" during treadmill workouts and laughed myself silly. Periodically bursting out laughing while reading "Relax--You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left" I decided to buy the book. Loretta's wit and humor are excellent tools to help reframe a negative focus, and to look at things in a more positive light even by accepting the absurdity around us. While Loretta's insights are remarkably simple they are also profound, particularly in the way they inspire change within us. With Loretta's help I've found that laughing is way more fun than whining!
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A Bore,
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This review is from: Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work (Audio Cassette)
Loretta is very funny and worth watching on TV. The tapes just don't make it. I have yet (6 mos after purchase) to get through the second one.
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Hilarious!,
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This review is from: Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work (Audio Cassette)
I have the audio cassettes and pop them into my car stereo every few months. Loretta Laroche cracks me up! Her sense of humor is wonderful. It's a great thing to listen to when you're stressed out from work, stuck in traffic, or just feeling down. I recommended the book/tapes to all of my friends!
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