Don’t fall prey to your stress response and the relentless damage it does to your health!

Learn to prevent this harmful, chronic physiological cascade triggered by professional and personal stress-evoking circumstances you face every day.

Get the Stress Release Course

With the Stress Release Course, learn how to prevent stress and master techniques to sleep better, decrease anxiety, lower blood pressure, increase energy, think clearly, and feel better in all stressful environments by strengthening your resilience.

The Release Course

This online course emphasizes current best practices and tools to support successful stress management. It also offers interactive components with technical and content support.

Master Your Stress with Expert-Developed Online Education

Michael Olpin, PhD, has more than thirty years of experience in teaching, coaching, speaking, and training people on stress reduction, prevention, and maintaining a high level of resiliency and mental & emotional well-being. He is the founder of the Stress Relief Center, has taught stress management at several universities, and his stress management trade and textbooks are used globally.

The Release Training Course leverages this experience to provide a transformative solution that can change your life.

The Solution

The human body is capable of dealing with stress in small amounts. However, if stress persists and becomes chronic, it can have harmful effects on both physical health and psychological well-being. Chronic stress can adversely impact every system of the body.

Hundreds of studies over the last 20 years have shown that stress contributes to a significant percentage of all major illnesses, including the number-one cause of death in America, cardiovascular disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 75% of adult doctor visits are due to stress, and up to 90% of all visits to primary care physicians are due to complaints related to stress.

Most of us experience high stress but struggle to know what to do about it or where to find legitimate help.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by stress and its adverse effects? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. You need a complete stress management program that can help you reduce stress and equip you with the necessary tools to prevent it from happening in the future. This is where “Release” comes in!

“Release” is not just another program. It's a new online training program meticulously crafted by the esteemed stress management expert Michael Olpin, Ph.D. It's the bedrock of effective stress management, a cutting-edge, research-based approach that's guaranteed to alleviate your stress.

The Release Training Program is not just a program-it's a comprehensive toolkit. It's versatile, evidence-based, and life-changing. It includes video and audio resources, scenario-based decision-making exercises, learning activities, guided relaxation exercises, and knowledge checks. With Release, you'll have all the tools at your disposal to effectively manage stress and pave the way for a healthier, happier life.

Intro Module

Stress Release Course Introduction
Pre-test
5 Components of Lifelong Stress Management
The Importance of Stress Reduction
Stress Self-Assessment

Module 1

The Real Reason You’re Stressed
The Source of Stress – A Cognitive Model
Stress Reduction Practice
Guided Relaxation to Relax and Recharge – The Power Nap
Guided Sleep Meditation – The Power Nap: Sleep

Module 2

The Big Reaction
Short-Term Stress
Physiology of the Fight-or-Flight Response
Activating Parasympathetic (Rest & Repair) Nervous System Activity
Stress Reduction through Focused Breathing
Guided Relaxation to Relax & Recharge – Relaxed Breathing
Guided Sleep Meditation – Relaxed breathing: Sleep
One-Minute Quick Relief Activity

Module 3

How Long the Stress Response Should be On
Stress Response Designed for Immediate Activity
Stress Reduction through Autogenics
Guided Relaxation to Relax & Recharge – Autogenics
Guided Sleep Meditation – Autogenics: Sleep
One-Minute Quick Relief Activity

Module 4

Effects of Chronic Stress
Stress Reduction through Exercise
Guided Relaxation to Relax & Recharge – Guided Imagery: Still Mountain Lake
Guided Sleep Meditation – Guided Imagery – Still Mountain Lake: Sleep
One-Minute Quick Relief Activity

Module 5

The Power of Perception
How Perception Activates the Stress Response
Stress Reduction through Progressive Relaxation
Guided Relaxation to Relax & Recharge – Progressive Relaxation
Guided Sleep Meditation – Progressive Relaxation: Sleep
One-Minute Quik Relief Activity

Module 6

Stress Prevention
Thoughts lead to Emotions – Stressful Thoughts lead to Stressful Emotions
Reactive vs. Proactive Paradigms
Stress Reduction through Yoga
Mindfulness Meditation to Relax & Recharge – Flowing Comfort
Guided Sleep Meditation – Flowing Comfort: Sleep
One-Minute Quick Relief Activity

Module 7

Thoughts Precede Emotions
How to Upgrade your Thoughts to Remove Threat Thoughts
The Four Simple Questions that Prevent Threat Thoughts
Upgrade Resistance Thoughts to Stress-Free Thoughts
Guided Relaxation to Relax & Recharge – Guided Imagery – Relaxing at the Beach
Guided Sleep Meditation – Guided Imagery – Relaxing at the Beach: Sleep
One-Minute Quick Relief Activity

Module 8

Get Rid of Threat Thoughts
Stimulus-Response and the Gap In-Between
Gaining Mental Calmness by Finding Meaning and Purpose
Stress Reduction through Massage
Guided Relaxation to Relax & Recharge – Guided Imagery – Floating through Colors
Guided Sleep Meditation – Guided Imagery – Floating through Colors: Sleep
One-Minute Quick Relief Activity