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In a provocative and practical look at modern stress, Seeking Serenity offers an empowering new message: Stress can serve as a guide to living our happiest and healthiest lives. In Seeking Serenity, stress columnist Amanda Enayati challenges our long-held assumptions about stress, painting a groundbreaking picture that separates myth from reality when it comes to what is commonly referred to as the plague of modern life. Weaving together stories, research from science, history, philosophy and diverse faiths, and everyday exercises, she crafts a fascinating tale that begins with the behind-the-scenes machinations of corporate villains and ends in the power of our stories to shape our realities.We are living in an era of dramatic highs and lows, with lives that move at a pace and intensity impossible at any other time in history.
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Amanda Enayati is a columnist, author and speaker whose essays about stress, happiness, creativity, technology, and identity have appeared widely, including on CNN, PBS, NPR, Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Salon and elsewhere. As a contributor for CNN Health, she began examining the quest for well-being and life balance in her health column, "Seeking Serenity," in 2011. She is also the stress and technology correspondent for PBS MediaShift. Born in Tehran, Amanda fled the Iranian revolution as a child refugee and lived in several countries before settling in the United States in the mid-1980s.
