Valeria Davenport Th D.

Stress Can Kill!: a Problem with Modern Causes and Biblical Answers Valeria Davenport Th D.

Stress Can Kill! shares one woman's faith journey as well as personal anecdotes in order to illustrate how Biblical teachings can help others reduce stress in their own lives.

Valeria Davenport is a devout woman of faith who explores the doubts, fears, and perplexities she experienced while facing her own stressors to show how she ultimately found comfort and guidance in the Bible and through prayer. In an honest and self-disclosing style, Davenport includes specific examples of common stressors as well as guidelines on how to both respond to and remove these specific stressors from our lives. Davenport relies on the Bible to educate others on why:

• Worrying is the consumption definition of stress
• Reasoning is a deceptive and manipulative stressor
• Turning our focus inward can eliminate many ailments
• Dreaming up worse-case scenarios is a killer stressor
• Facing frustration with integrity will keep us calmer

For anyone concerned about the deadly capabilities that stressors have in our own lives, Stress Can Kill! provides spiritually-guided wisdom so others can learn how to spend more time developing and strengthening a relationship with God, ultimately eliminating their own deadly stressors and moving toward a more peaceful existence.