Awaken Your Inner Leader is a non fiction self help book by author Edita Atteck, self described as a means to ‘Transform Stress Develop Emotional Mastery and Thrive’. It is designed for busy professionals searching for more in their lives, and more within themselves to become more confident people. For those suffering from their stressful existence with pain, lack of sleep and worries plaguing them, Edita Atteck offers a comprehensive guidebook filled with practical exercises that you can put into action to help develop the confident leader within you. The book’s claim is that not only does this help in the workplace with work and relationships, but that working on this concept provides comfort in all areas of life, relieving stress and emotional turmoil along the way.

I really loved the conceptual ideas of this book, and I think that positive, inward thinking books like these can really help people to transform as individuals instead of looking to others for satisfaction. Edita Atteck is clearly very aware of the powerful effect which nerves have on the human body, and how to reverse the damage done to the nervous system by taking care of both body and mind. The exercises themselves increase in difficulty but are all easy to develop from small steps, and I believe this is a method which could genuinely help those who follow it. Overall, Awaken Your Inner Leader would provide fantastic advice to people who want to succeed in life but are struggling with stress from their occupations. A recommend read!

Awaken Your Inner Leader: Transform Stress Develop Emotional Mastery and Thrive by Edita Atteck is a non-fiction self-help book that details ways to recognize and deal with stress in our modern world. Awaken Your Inner Leader is written as a guide for people, especially in North America, who are bound in the rat race of their careers and professional lives while trying to manage their personal lives, and the resulting stress that comes with this lifestyle. Edita has divided the book into a few broad sections, each with its own individual chapters that go through defining what stress is at a physical and emotional level, the “operating system” of our body and system, what an emotion or feeling is and how it is formed, developing emotional literacy and learning how to become aware of and manage one’s emotions, developing self-leadership or self-mastery with the aid of various techniques, etc. There are questions listed at the end of each chapter for self-reflection, along with a list of references and resources at the end of the book.

Awaken Your Inner Leader is a handy guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed or dissatisfied with their busy professional and personal lives. This is true of North America and the book is geared towards this audience. I liked that Edita has explained and analyzed such concepts as what an emotion is, the different types of emotions and if they are useful or not under certain conditions. The writing style is fast paced and the book length is just right for a topic of this kind. It is obvious that Edita feels strongly about the subject and has a genuine passion for it. Overall, this is a helpful guide towards understanding and minimizing stress.