Discovering and practicing your ideal rhythm of stress and renewal – physical, social, and spiritual – will enhance your health, strength, and resilience. Stress reactions are automatic, but to transform stress into strength, you need to become intentional about routines that activate your natural renewal systems. The proven tips throughout Stress Into Strength will help you do exactly that.
Nick Arnett has had distinguished, high-stress careers, including as a paramedic and firefighter with experience in domestic and international disasters, as well as in the corporate world as a software founder and executive. For more than 15 years, he has led and taught people how to be resilient through crises large and small.
In Stress Into Strength, you will learn how to:
Let go once and for all of the stress myths that the human brain’s “negative” bias reinforces.
Gain insight into your personality-based stress reactions and channel any negative, knee jerk reactions into positive, long-term responses to overcome your biggest obstacles.
Learn how to choose physical, social, and spiritual stress and renewal responses that will help make your more flexible and resilient.
Learn tips on when to seek help with trauma, staying undaunted through crisis in the workplace, and even raising resilient children.
Transform your personal and professional life with insights gained from some of the most stressful professions you can imagine.
Nick Arnett supervises medical and rescue resources on a federal Complex Incident Management Team. He is also a crisis responder, fire chaplain and former paramedic with experience in domestic and international emergency response in fire, rescue, medical, communications, public information and crisis intervention roles. He teaches emergency medicine, crisis intervention, resilience, and community emergency preparedness. He previously was a software industry product executive and company founder with seven patents for intelligence-gathering software. Arnett has also been an award-winning reporter for radio, television and print, including CBS and ABC News, Rolling Stone and numerous technology publications. While at the San Jose Business Journal, he broke the story of Steve Jobs' departure from Apple. While in college, he reported the first accurate account of the Reagan shooting for CBS and other news media. Arnett holds numerous certifications in emergency medicine, wildland firefighting, rescue, crisis intervention, and emergency management. He is also a General class ham radio operator (KJ6FOI) active in emergency communications with CAL FIRE and ARES/RACES. Arnett's latest book, "Stress Into Strength: Resilience Routines for Warriors, Wimps, and Everyone in Between," was released by HarperCollins Leadership in July 2021.