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Eliz’s books and research explore
stress, performance, heart health,
and the practical realities of performing under pressure.
Stress-Proof Your Life: High Performance Under Pressure
Why does the same situation send one person’s stress level soaring while barely registering for someone else?
Drawing on Eliz’s original research with more than 4,000 people, Stress-Proof Your Life explores what drives stress, why our responses to it are different, and how to choose practical strategies that work for the way you experience and recover from pressure.
Stress-Proof Your Life
High Performance Under Pressure
Not all stress is created equal, and the same strategy doesn’t work for every kind of pressure. Drawing on Eliz’s original research with more than 4,000 people, Stress-Proof Your Life provides a practical framework for understanding what is driving stress and choosing strategies that fit the situation.
Eliz explores Stress Ecology, uncertainty, the physical impact of sustained stress, and the different ways people recover. Assessments, exercises, research, and real-world examples give readers practical ways to evaluate their own stress environment, offset its physical burden, and recover more effectively.
Stress-Proof Your Life is Eliz’s most comprehensive resource for understanding and responding to stress in demanding lives.
Stress-Proof Your Heart
A Practical Companion for Heart-Health Events
Stress-Proof Your Heart brings the most relevant stress and recovery insights from Eliz’s larger body of work into a concise resource focused specifically on heart health.
Written from the perspective of a heart attack survivor who has spent more than two decades researching stress, the book uses assessments, exercises, and practical strategies to explore the physical impact of sustained stress, recovery, and ways to offset the burden stress places on the body.
Designed to accompany heart-health programming, Stress-Proof Your Heart gives participants a useful resource to take home and continue applying what they learned long after the event.
The Stress-Proof
Event Professional
A Practical Guide for
Meeting and Event Professionals
Meeting and event professionals were an important part of the research behind Stress-Proof Your Life. Stress-Proof Event Professional takes insights from that research and applies them to the particular pressures of an industry where high expectations, changing conditions, and getting the details right are part of the job.
The guide offers a practical five-step process for recognizing stress, interrupting the reaction, focusing on what can be controlled, and recovering effectively. It can be used as a standalone resource or as an industry-specific companion to Stress-Proof Your Life, making the book’s broader concepts easier to apply to the realities of event work.
Reframing Stress Dumping Interactions
A Six-Step Roadmap for Frontline and Public-Facing Employees
What happens when someone else’s stress lands on you?
Frontline and public-facing employees regularly interact with people who are frustrated, angry, anxious, or simply having a very bad day. Those interactions can trigger a stress reaction of their own, making it harder to stay calm, think clearly, solve the problem, and leave the interaction behind when it is over.
Reframing Stress-Dumping Interactions provides a practical six-step roadmap for recognizing when stress dumping is happening, validating the other person’s experience without absorbing it, defining your role in the interaction, managing your own reaction, focusing on the fix, and actively recovering afterward.
Designed for customer service, call centers, hospitality, healthcare, and other public-facing environments, the white paper gives employees language and practical strategies they can use in the moment when someone else’s stress threatens to become their own.
Practical Resources
Stress Recovery Personality Quiz
Are You a Border Collie or an Iguana?
Recovery doesn’t look the same for everyone. Some people recover best by staying occupied and shifting their attention to something engaging. Others need quiet, space, and time to disengage.
The Stress Recovery Personality Quiz helps you identify which approach is more effective for you and choose recovery activities that are more likely to replenish your capacity.
Baseline Stress
Level Quiz
How Much Stress Are You Carrying?
Stress can accumulate gradually, making it difficult to recognize how much your baseline has shifted. The higher your baseline stress level, the more strain it places on your available capacity.
This quick assessment gives you a way to take stock of what you’re carrying and recognize when accumulated stress may be leaving you with less capacity for the work, decisions, and demands in front of you.
Holiday Stress Relief Toolkit
Practical Strategies for a Demanding Season
The holidays can add more decisions, commitments, expectations, and complicated interactions to an already full life. This collection offers practical strategies for protecting your time and priorities, navigating difficult interactions, making more intentional choices, and recovering along the way.
Explore the complete series and choose the resources that fit what is creating the most pressure for you this season.
