Download or read book Happiness and Other Disorders written by Ahmad Saidullah and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;Sometimes, Writing Is Irresistible &Hellip;&Rsquo; Confesses The &Lsquo;Keeper Of Secrets&Rsquo;, The Pompous, Erudite, And At Times Wickedly Funny Fictional Editor Of This Collection Of Stories. In His Editor&Rsquo;S Note, He Tells Us Of A Mysterious Box Of Manuscripts, Almost Impossible To Open, Whose Contents Reconstruct The Lives Of Several Characters From A Small Town In North India That Was Torn Apart By Religious Violence. This Collection, He Informs Us Tantalizingly, Is Compiled From What He Could Hurriedly Salvage From The Box Before It Shut, Never To Open Again. An Unnamed Man Flees For Bombay After Assassinating A Politician During A Religious Riot In Western India In &Lsquo;Flight To Egypt&Rsquo;. In &Lsquo;Fifteen Sketches Of Rumi&Rsquo;, A Young Woman Comes To Comes To Terms With The Possibility That Something Within Her Has Been Irreparably Mutilated By Her Family&Rsquo;S Brutal Response To Her Love Affair. And The Title Story, &Lsquo;Happiness And Other Disorders&Rsquo;, Is A Uniquely Styled Comic Account Of The Editor&Rsquo;S Back Problems. Beautifully Crafted And Remarkably Layered, Happiness And Other Disorders Offers Portraits Of Characters And Societies Torn Apart By Violence And Oppression. Ahmad Saidullah Displays A Brilliant Command Over A Complex Range Of Narrative Styles In This Highly Original Debut Collection.
Download or read book Health Happiness and Well Being written by Steven Jay Lynn and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER 14: MAKING MARRIAGE (AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS) WORK -- CHAPTER 15: THE JOYS OF LOVING: ENHANCING SEXUAL EXPERIENCES -- CHAPTER 16: RAISING OUR KIDS WELL: GUIDELINES FOR POSITIVE PARENTING -- CHAPTER 17: FINANCIAL SKILLS -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX
Download or read book Furiously Happy written by Jenny Lawson and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened... In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy." It's a philosophy that has - quite literally - saved her life. Jenny's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. And who doesn't need a bit more of that?
Download or read book The Twelve Steps to Happiness written by Joe Klaas and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1990-04-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those of us working a Twelve Step program, here is a useful touchstone for anyone who has wrestled with questions like: "Am I really working my program to the fullest?" This classic handbook helps us find the tools to work our programs and see our way clear toward the happiness we deserve.
Download or read book My Path to Happy written by Charlotte Reed and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of May the Thoughts Be with You comes this refreshingly candid, illustrated account of one woman’s journey through and beyond depression. Anyone who has suffered from depression understands that the “path to happy” is a winding one, marked by roadblocks and confusing intersections. In My Path to Happy, Charlotte Reed shares her own experience of depression as well as the practices that ultimately helped her through the darkest time of her life. A quick, uplifting read, this playfully illustrated book acknowledges that recovery looks different for everyone. Rather than a prescription for healing, it offers honesty, solidarity, and a hopeful tale meant to comfort and inspire.
Download or read book Happiness written by Ed Diener and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research by the world's leading expert on happiness, Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness. shares the results of three decades of research on our notions of happiness covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness offers readers unparalleled access to the world's leading experts on happiness provides "real world" examples that will resonate with general readers as well as scholars Winner of the 2008 PSP Prose Award for Excellence in Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
Download or read book The Tree of Happiness written by Cynthia Stevison and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a mental health crisis in our country today. Few people realize mental disorders can be treated and managed. Recovery is possible. The Tree of Happiness explores the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness. This story offers encouragement and empowerment to those willing to accept it and climb into their true potential. This book converts decades of personal and professional healing strategies into a proven process that equips readers with the tools to create their own Tree of Happiness. Readers will Discover how to unveil the roots that bind them. Find answers to help those that suffer from mental illness. Experience comfort that they are not alone. Discern how mental disorders can be managed. Unpack how recovery is possible.
Download or read book Promoting Happiness Among People with Autism and Other Severe Disabilities written by Habilitative Management Consultants, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Happiness and the Good Life written by Mike W. Martin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher Mike W. Martin here examines the meaning of happiness by connecting it to the philosophical notion of "the good life."
Download or read book Uncovering Happiness written by Elisha Goldstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldstein believes that overcoming depression and uncovering happiness is in harnessing our brain's own natural antidepressant power and ultimately creating a more resilient antidepressant brain. In seven simple steps, she shows you how to take back control of your mind, your mood, and your life --
Download or read book The Happiness Trap written by Russ Harris and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.
Download or read book You Can Choose to be Happy written by Tom G. Stevens PhD and published by You Can Choose To Be Happy. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Stevens' research identifies specific learnable beliefs and skills--not general, inherited traits--that cause people to be happy and successful.
Download or read book Understanding Happiness written by Mick Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to be happy, and there are plenty of people telling us how it can be achieved. The positive psychology movement, indeed, has established happiness as a scientific concept within everyone’s grasp. But is happiness really something we can actively aim for, or is it simply a by-product of how we live our lives more widely? Dr. Mick Power, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Clinical Programmes at the National University of Singapore, provides a critical assessment of what happiness really means, and the evidence for how it can be increased. Arguing that negative emotions are as important to overall well-being as the sunnier sides of our disposition, the book examines many of the claims of the positive psychology movement, including the relationship between happiness and physical health, and argues that resilience, adaptability in the face of adversity, psychological flexibility, and a sense of generativity and creativity are far more achievable as life goals. This is a book which will fascinate anyone interested in positive psychology, or anyone who has ever questioned the plethora of publications suggesting that blissful happiness is ten easy steps away.
Download or read book Behind Happy Faces written by Ross Szabo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Happy Faces is a summary of the most frequently asked questions that over 2 million young people have about their mental health. The book is a guide on how to navigate mental health challenges for oneself, family, friends and in relationships. The information is delivered using positive examples of multiple personal stories.
Download or read book The Happy Kitchen Good Mood Food written by Rachel Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that your gut is responsible for producing around 90% of your serotonin, the chemical which makes you feel good? The Happy Kitchen is a joyous bible of good mood food, packed with recipes and meal planners to keep us calm, boost energy and help us sleep. Since suffering her last serious bout of depression in 2011, Rachel Kelly has evolved a broad holistic approach to staying well, but at the heart of her recovery has been changing the way she eats. Over the past five years, she has worked with nutritionist and food doctor Alice Mackintosh. Together, they have built up a repertoire of recipes that target particular symptoms, from insomnia and mood swings to stress and exhaustion. In chapters ranging from Steady Energy and Beating the Blues to Finding Comfort, they put all the theory into practice, setting out how you can incorporate it into your daily life. Along with delicious new recipes and meal planners, there is a toolkit of Super Good Mood Foods, as well as ‘Science Bites’ scattered through the text in which Alice explains the biology and chemistry of nutrition. When you’re feeling fragile it can be hard to overhaul your diet; it is one more thing on your ‘to do’ list. But as Rachel has learnt, it is small steps that make a difference. Alice’s recipes are easy to follow, and soothe and gladden the soul. Follow their advice, and without trying, you too will, week by week, begin to feel stronger and happier.
Download or read book Activating Happiness written by Rachel Hershenberg and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not just big choices that can radically change our lives—sometimes it’s the small ones. Activating Happiness offers powerful, evidence-based strategies to help you conquer low motivation, nix negative moods, and defeat depression by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments. If you have depression or just suffer from low mood and lack of motivation, you know that your life isn’t going to change with one grand, sweeping gesture. But you can make important decisions every day—whether it’s getting off the couch and going for a walk, signing up for a course in pottery or screenwriting, or just setting aside some time to meet and chat with a good friend over coffee. These little things won’t change your life all at once. But over time, they will shape the way you live and see the world and keep you on a path to wellness. In Activating Happiness, you’ll find solid strategies based in behavioral activation and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you break the cycle of avoidance, guilt, shame, and hopelessness that can take hold when you’re feeling your lowest. Using this guide, you’ll find little, doable ways to “show up” to your life, get the ball rolling, and start really feeling better, instead of just reassuring others. You’ll learn to set healthy goals for your body like eating and sleeping well, as well as healthy goals for your mind. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to view your life through the lens of your own deepest values, which will spark a commitment to real, lasting change. The best thing about change is that you can start anywhere. By building a life—moment by moment—of rewarding behaviors that correspond to your values, you have the recipe for getting and staying well at your fingertips. This book will guide your way.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Happiness written by Susan A. David and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text for researchers and practitioners interested in human happiness. Its editors and chapter contributors are world leaders in the investigation of happiness across the fields of psychology, education, philosophy, social policy and economics.
