Have you ever walked on a treadmill that was going too fast?

Like the pink bunny in the battery commercial, we keep going and going, even when it means neglecting our health and our own personal well-being. God and our families and friends don't get the best of us...they get what is left of us.

Every woman deals with stress. The key is learning how to adjust the speed of your life.

Teresa Bell Kindred provides ten proven strategies that can help you hold on when you are stressed out. The stories and practical De-stressor tips in this book will encourage you, while at the same time remind you that you are not alone.

Teresa Bell Kindred is the author of A Mother's Prayer: The Gift of Love and column-writer of "Kindred Spirits" for Kentucky Living and Alabama Living. She frequently contributes to Christian Woman magazine and has an online column at www.parentingteen.com. A former teacher and now a full-time writer, conference speaker, and mom, Kindred and her husband live with their five children, ages seven to seventeen.