About Stress Less. Love Life More: A Practical Guide to Stress Management, Emotional Resilience, and Reclaiming Joy:
A Science-Backed Guide to Stress Management, Resilience, and Emotional Wellbeing
Modern life is exhausting.
Relentless demands. Emotional overload. Work pressure. Relationship strain. A constant feeling that you’re running on empty.
If stress has become your default setting, you are not broken—you are simply overloaded.
In Stress Less. Love Life More, holistic psychotherapist Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) reveals a powerful, practical approach to stress management that doesn’t require you to escape your life—only to reclaim joy within it.
Drawing on positive psychology, mind–body science, and decades of professional experience, Gaisford has helped burned-out executives, creative entrepreneurs, artists, teenagers, and overwhelmed professionals transform stress into strength, clarity, and confidence.
This book shows you how to do the same.
Inside this life-changing guide, you’ll discover how to:
✔ Use joy as an antidote to stress
✔ Tune into your body’s natural stress signals (your inner barometer)
✔ Anticipate stress before it overwhelms you
✔ Manage everyday pressures and extraordinary life challenges
✔ Build life-affirming coping strategies that actually last
✔ Restore energy, confidence, and emotional balance
✔ Reignite your passion for work, relationships, and life
You’ll also explore practical, evidence-based tools including:
Stress-relieving rituals and quick fixes
Long-term therapies such as yoga, meditation, massage, and nutrition
Mindset shifts that support emotional resilience and sustainable success
This book is for you if:
• You feel constantly exhausted or emotionally drained
• Stress is affecting your health or relationships
• You’ve lost confidence, joy, or motivation
• Life feels overwhelming—even when things look “fine” on the outside
• You want to stress less without giving up ambition or purpose
A fresh approach to stress, success, healing and self-belief
Expanding on the groundbreaking ideas from Gaisford’s bestselling works—
The Art of Success, Mid-Life Career Rescue, and How to Find Your Passion and Purpose—
this book explores the tension we all face between living an inspired life and achieving practical success.
Here’s the truth most stress books miss:
Stress isn’t your enemy. It’s a powerful tool—when you know how to use it.
When harnessed correctly, stress becomes a catalyst for growth, clarity, resilience, and transformation.
Short on time but high on motivation?
Stress Less. Love Life More will cheerlead, support, and guide you toward:
✨ Greater calm
✨ Stronger relationships
✨ Renewed purpose
✨ A healthier, happier life
Living with joy, meaning, and emotional freedom is not a luxury.
It’s your birthright.
👉 Click the BUY NOW button and begin reclaiming your happiness, health, confidence—and sanity—today.
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Author Bio:
New Zealander Cassandra Gaisford is a best-selling author, award-winning artist, mentor and intuitive guide. She is a former holistic counsellor and integrative therapist. She’s is known as the Joyful Artist and The Queen of Uplifting Inspiration.
Cassandra is a corporate escapee who now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. She ‘walks the talk’ – having reinvented her working life multiple times in the search for career nirvana and she’s happy to say she’s found it. Equally satisfying to her is that she’s been able to share the knowledge she has gained. Over the years she has helped thousands of people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances find or create work they love, and to enjoy their lives.
Her journey and lessons learned are shared in her books “The Joyful Artist”; “Word by Word: Some Thoughts on Writing, Love, and Life”; and “Mid-life Career Rescue: How to confidently leave a job you hate and start living a life you love before it’s too late.”
Her other non-fiction books include How to Find Your Passion and Purpose; Mind Your Drink: The Surprising Joy of Sobriety: Control Alcohol, Discover Freedom, Find Happiness and Change Your Life; and a range of other self-empowerment titles.
Cassandra also writes romance novels under her pen name Mollie Mathews (www.molliemathews.com) She loves travelling, the arts and anything that is beautiful and uplifting.