The End of Self-Help
Discovering Peace and Happiness Right at the Heart of Your Messy, Scary, Brilliant Life
Published on 4. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-0-9864282-0-3 (ISBN)
Description
The happiness you seek is already here. Yes, it's true! You just need to know where to look... And you won't find it by focusing on your problems.
- Are you tired of feeling sad, stuck, anxious, and overwhelmed?
- Are you fed up because nothing changes no matter how many podcasts you listen to or how many years you're in therapy?
- Shouldn't you feel better already with all this inner work you're doing?
- Be aware of your troublesome thoughts and feelings so you can make conscious choices that support your well-being.
- Make choices in your life that keep you present and connected inside.
- Taste the possibility of feeling good about yourself and the way you show up in your life-with your family, friendships, and work.
- Notice the simple pleasures in life instead of feeling trapped in old patterns that don't bring you peace.
- Feel whole, spacious, and deeply okay-rather than being hard on yourself;
- Feel better about your past;
- Know what to do with your busy mind filled with worries and negative thoughts;
- Make life-affirming choices in your everyday life;
- Feel fully alive and aware, present to the moments of this precious life.
- 2015 USA Best Book Awards; winner Self-Help: General
- 2015 Living Now Book Awards; tied for silver; Personal Growth/Motivation category
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9864282-0-3 (9780986428203)
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Person
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, blogger, and speaker who joyfully helps people discover that suffering is optional. Through investigating her own experience, and working with clients for over 25 years, she has discovered how to unravel common problems of everyday life to reveal the deepest acceptance and peace. Gail has authored many published articles on coping with stress and chronic medical illness. She has special expertise working with older adults and their families, bringing clear seeing and compassion to the transitions of aging, death, and dying. Her offerings point to realizing that the happiness you seek is already here. It's absolutely possible, in your own experience, to fully live this ordinary, extraordinary, precious experience of life.