Conquer Stress: The Overthinker's Guide to Peace and Happiness

by Nicole Gauder

The mind is a very powerful tool. It can also be your worst enemy if you let it take control of your life. Do you often find yourself trying to silence the millions of thoughts swirling around in your brain? Have you ever found yourself so overwhelmed and stressed that you feel ready to punch something?

You are not alone.

Imagine being happy, peaceful, and stress-free. Happiness is not something you find in life, it is something you bring to life, and you have the power of choice to be happy right now. Life is too precious to feel stressed out due to feelings such as anxiety, doubt, worry, frustration, and fear. You are bigger than those negative emotions that all lead to stress.

Take the time to invest in yourself, take control of your mind, get to the root of your problems, turn your negativity into potential and start following your heart to happiness! By tapping into your subconscious, you can take control of the storm brewing in your brain and get to the root of the issues causing you stress - helping you find peace of mind and leading you on the path to a happier and more peaceful life.

Conquer Stress: The Overthinker’s Guide To Peace and Happiness by Nicole Gauder provides you with the motivation and inspiration you need to change your mindset and turn your life around. Focusing on key aspects in chapters such as 16 Empowering Beliefs, Turning Your Negative into Potential, and Following Your Heart To Happiness, this book will guide you on your journey to peace. Helpful tools, reflections, and exercises are included as an added supplement to assist you on your journey in calming your mind. The secret is to align yourself with the happiness that you seek. Find happiness now. Be your own truth and start the journey of following your heart to peace and happiness.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Overcome anxiety and stress
• Relax your mind and body
• Maintain mental clarity while reducing stress
• Control your emotions
• Improve your self-esteem
• Improve your mindfulness
• Prevent overthinking and obsessing
• Stop worrying and stressing
• Increase your self-control
• And much more

Kindle Edition

Published September 26, 2022

About the author

Nicole Gauder is a spiritual alignment specialist, mental healer, and author. She provides her readers with the tips, tools, and techniques they need to take their lives from where they are to where they want to be. Nicole loves reading and is passionate about enlightening others to the higher truths of life. Nicole helps her readers identify their goals, release limiting beliefs, and create lasting change in their lives.

Reviews

[Rosemary Mairs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This self-help manual lays out a path to inner peace and happiness. I’m a chronic overthinker; it wasn’t until I went through two significant periods of depression that I finally realised I was my own worst enemy and really needed to change. As Nicole Gauder explains, the human condition is prone to negativity, seeks it out in all situations, in every aspect of our lives. Positive thinking is a matter of choice.

Each chapter has useful advice and tips. For instance, the beliefs you hold about yourself need to be evaluated, are they toxic, holding you back? Also, the power of the imagination is a helpful tool; no matter what else is happening in your life, there is a sanctuary you can reach in your mind, can imagine yourself there, experience peace and happiness by association. Another example, is procrastination being a stress producer, whatever is preying on your mind, that needs done, don’t keep putting it off.

This stress-conquering guide will be useful to dip into, to re-read when I find myself slipping back into my old thought patterns. I recommend this book; it is concise, informative, encouraging, and most important of all – empowering.

[Eric Kao · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This review is 100% my own opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I influenced by the publisher/author in any way.

Conquer Stress by Nicole Gauder is not the book you might expect from a spiritual adviser -there is real work being done here, not just general advice! Yes, she advocates the power of the mind and positive thinking, but what makes this book stand out to me is her writing prompts. Throughout the book, she explains what you need to know about a topic, but then follows up with questions that are meant to cut to the core of your inner thoughts. Sometimes, the answers you find might sting - your own reasons for holding yourself back. She always follows these with a series of questions that leads you, from one answer to the next, on a pathway to new thoughts. It is clear to me that she understands that just reading a book won’t solve your problems. You have to roll up your sleeves and do some digging yourself.

There is a lot of helpful and empowering advice in this book. She focuses on mindfulness but actually takes the time to explicitly explain the process of building this mentality. She addresses both sides of your thoughts, beliefs, and actions - the positive thoughts and the negative thoughts. As someone who has worked in health and wellness myself, acknowledging the difficulty of overcoming negative thoughts is a hallmark of an experienced practitioner. Only inexperienced practitioners tell you to just think positive thoughts and the universe will answer. Nicole’s 10+ years of experience shine through with her practical advice that focuses just as much as dealing with the negative as it does with increasing the positive.

The chapters are short and easy to digest. Sometimes, I would read an early chapter and wonder how you would actually do what she suggested. Be patient - she introduces ideas early to let you digest them. Later chapters then delve into them and guide you with her writing prompts.

Recommendation: this book, while advocating actionable steps, has a strong element of spirituality. If that does not speak to you, then this book is not for you. If you are looking for advice on conquering stress and the tools to make changes to your thoughts, then I absolutely recommend you not only read this, but follow her writing prompts. Her advice and writing prompts remind me of “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem” by Nathaniel Branden. A key difference is, it took me weeks to work through his tome, while I was able to read her easy-to-digest book in a day.

“You are in charge of your life. Hold yourself accountable for the outcomes you create. Celebrate the fact that you have the power to determine your own future.” - Nicole Gauder, ‘Conquer Stress’

[Lucy Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 stars, rounded to 4

A short but enlightening little book, Conquer Stress reminds readers that the mind is a powerful tool and our perception is something that is fully under our control. Whether or not you are happy is for you to decide, as happiness is a birthright for you to control. There are a variety of things you can do to take advantage of the powerful tool that the mind is, from guided imagery to reflecting on limiting beliefs and finding the solution that can be embedded in a problem.

I think that I would have liked the book less if it had not had those questionnaires and chapter reflections; the chapters by themselves would have sounded quite superficial and platitudinous to me. However, having those clear, relevant prompts and recurring chapter reflections made the concepts and techniques offered in this book seem more useful and applicable. These reflections and prompts helped me admire how powerful the mind is and how just passively moping about a problem instead of actually using it is like a deviation of your own freewill. I especially enjoyed identifying my own limiting beliefs. Long story short, the top two limiting beliefs I have are that 1) I am not accomplished enough and 2) Community/connection is overrated. I was also able to devise my own modified version of guided imagery to motivate me throughout the day to accomplish my goals in a stress-free manner.

For any potential readers, I would recommend giving this book a go... but only if you are willing to answer at least some of the prompts or pause for reflection. Introspection will only help augment the content in this book.

[Country Mama · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked the book Conquer Stress by Nicole Gauder. She wrote such an interesting and helpful book for everyone to read. Anyone who is under stress or not should definitely read this book to get some helpful tidbits on how to conquer your stress! I loved the introduction where Nicole states that happiness is your birthright. This is such a true and poignant statement. In this book there are also parts of each chapter where you can reflect on what you read and also there are parts where you must answer some questions as you go. In a good self-help book, in my opinion, you need to do self-introspection and this book has many questions as you read in each chapter and also where you have spaces to write in the book or to grab a piece of paper. I felt great after reading through this book and doing each of the reflections and self-introspection questions each chapter. I highly recommend people who are feeling stressful in their lives to read Nicole’s book and hopefully like myself, you will feel better in no time!