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Insight into Stress by Beverley Shepherd. Pub CWR, pp112, ISBN 1853453846, £7.50
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Whilst we all need a certain ‘pressure’ to motivate us, this can all too quickly escalate into stress, breakdown or burn out; and somewhere along the way, we lose the ability to see what is happening to us. We have to be vigilant, therefore, and spot the symptoms early.
Shepherd likens the causes of stress to weights on a spring: if too many are added, the spring is unable to snap back, to recover. We are aware of the pitfalls of life changing situations, but she also looks at the expectations of others, and the demands we make upon ourselves: our need to be perfect, to please, to be active …our need, in effect, to win approval and love. With varied biblical passages, she helps us to review our thinking in the light of God’s perspective, and consider how we might change.
Nothing especially new, then, but hopefully she raises our awareness sufficiently, to prevent ‘useful’ stress from becoming life threatening.
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