Don't Get Mad Get Funny! : Using Humor to Manage Stress
Language: English
Published by Whole Person Associates, Incorporated, 1996
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- Softcover
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- Title
- Don't Get Mad Get Funny! : Using Humor to Manage Stress
- Author
- Jasheway, Leigh A.
- Publisher
- Whole Person Associates, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1570251193
- ISBN 13
- 9781570251191
- Illustrator
- Geoffrey M Welles
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 0.583 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
From the Author
Everyone knows that laughing is more fun than, say, an enema. The problem is, laughter is most vital to us when things aren't funny -- when the deadlines are piling up, the dog has eaten your Visa card, or you're in the middle of another argument with your teenager about big pants. Finding humor when life seems tragic (or at least dramatic) may be the best thing you can do for your heath and stress management. I know. I'm the Queen of Stress. My life was so stressful for the first 32 years, I barely cracked a smile. I wasn't voted class clown in high school. I was voted most likely to depress people. My idols were Sylvia Plath and Edgar Alan Poe. But then I grew up and got funny. And it saved my life. And my sanity. My book, Don't Get Mad, Get Funny, is based on a workshop I've been giving all over the country for eight years. It's full of easy, hands-on approaches for adding humor to your stressful life. For example, making funny friends instead of life-o-suctors (people who suck the life out of you, but you knew that, didn't you?) And wearing an animal snout in traffic to distract you and everyone else from road rage. My personal favorite part of the book is the section on rewriting your autobiography with humor. It's a great way to get rid of some of the garbage from your past and replace it with something funny. I've been teaching this technique in 10-week classes that use comedy writing for cheap therapy and have seen many people emerge from pasts that were haunting them. My students have looked at all the traumas from their past -- alcoholic parents, abusive siblings, relationship failures, fears, even rape -- and created their own funny revision of their personal history. My goal in writing Don't Get Mad, Get Funny was to help people. Not just already funny people, but humor-impaired, constipated people. They're the ones that need it the most. I know, I was one. So, if you want to grow up and get funny, here's your chance.
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