Preserving Human Touch in a High Tech World: Writings, Raps, & Rhymes

Preserving Human Touch in a High Tech World

Writings, Raps, & Rhymes on Stress Resiliency,

Burnout Recovery, and Digital Sanity

Everyday our world becomes more TNT – Time-Numbers-Technology – driven and distracted.  And if human traits were species, two of the most endangered would be Integrity and Intimacy ("I & I").  Preserving Human Touch in a High Tech World is your road map of “writings, raps and rhymes” for:

1) putting some distance between yourself and, for example, insomnia and media-mania or family trauma and office drama,

2) discovering, designing, and digging your own mind-body-spirit passage.  And, perhaps most valuable,

3) its wit and wisdom just may inspire you to reach out and touch, to share and connect with fellow “I & I” explorers.

Take Home Personal Road Map/Survival Skills

An insightful and inspiring 135-page guide, Preserving Human Touch… encourages each reader to embark on his or her own inner journey of self-discovery and self-resiliency.   Surely, this is the foundation and pathway for vital (not just virtual) “f-2-f” (face-to-face) connection.  Toward this end, you will unearth such survival and maturational skills as:

1) laughing at your own flaws and foibles while also using healing humor to deflate and detoxify noxious stress carriers

2) discovering the Stress Doc’s stress resiliency and brain agility “Formula for Natural SPEED”: Sleep-Priorities/Passion-Empathy-Exercise-Diet

3) breaking down “The Silent Wall of Shame”

4) dancing the “Burnout Boogie” and exploring the “Six ‘R’s Road of Burnout Recovery”:  Running-Reading-Retreating-Writing-Relating-Risk-taking

5) preventing yourself, friends, and family or your team, department, and organization from “Going MA&DD” (through Media Addiction & Digital Distraction) and “Bridging the Generational-Digital Divide”; (it’s obvious that the Doc is the founding member of a new 12-Step AA Group:  Acronyms Anonymous).

A Mix of Meaning and Magic...and Battlefield Experience

Whether poetry or prose, purposeful or poignant, the language is colorful yet clear – a tapestry of meaningful substance and magical style.  You’ll discover down to earth tools and techniques for “Stress Resiliency, Burnout Recovery, and Digital Sanity.”  So too enlightening insights to help find or newly conceive “the pass in the impasse.”  This ingenious synthesis is best captured by the “Stress Doc’s” ™ quest to be the Dr. Seuss of Stress for Adults (and kids of all ages).

First, the book is the painful, playful, and soulful outpouring of a one-of-a-kind – stage and page – word artist.  Mark’s hats also include therapist and “Psychohumorist” ™, motivational speaker, “Reality Radio” Podcaster, and “Shrink Rapper” ™.   And he’s a former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service.  (The Doc is battle-tested!)  In addition to raps and rhymes, there are popular essays and Q & As – over forty selections of varying size, substance, and style.  Next each Shrink Rap ™ or Resiliency Poetry sample is illuminated by a brief intro that:  a) sheds light on the context of the work or b) explains how the piece came into being.  Finally, the “R & R” selections – Raps & Rhymes – close with Discussion Questions to enrich engagement and expand awareness.  These head-heart provocateurs also will facilitate meaningful group discussion, whether at the family table or hanging with friends, at book clubs, or in a classroom or workshop setting.

So seek the higher power of Stress Doc humor:  May the Farce Be with You!

Don’t miss your appointment with the Stress Doc.