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Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting over Life's Little Imperfections
Voice
December 2009
On Sale: December 16, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 1401323359
EAN: 9781401323356
Hardcover
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Self-Help
What Room Are You In? Ask any woman how she's
feeling. Even when things look pretty darn great from the
outside, chances are that at least one thing (and it may
seem minor to others) is nagging at her, making her feel
less than spectacular, bringing her down: I'm too fat. My
husband doesn't help enough around the house. My friend is
going to be mad if I don't call her back. Why don't my kids
try harder at school? My job is less than inspiring.
Whatever happened to that old boyfriend, the one who got
away? Whether it's the size of our thighs or our
bank accounts, there always seems to be something that isn't
measuring up to our high standards—and we let the
dissatisfaction spill over into other areas of our lives,
distracting us from taking pleasure in everything that's
going right. In The Nine Rooms of Happiness,
Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self magazine, and
women's-health psychiatrist Catherine Birndorf use the
metaphor of a house to release us from this phenomenon. In
this house, the living room is where we deal with
friendships and our social life; the bedroom is where we
explore intimacy, romance, relationships, and sex; the
bathroom is for issues relating to health and body image;
the kitchen is for nourishment and the division of chores;
and so on. Our "inner house" can have eight
beautifully designed, neat and tidy rooms, and one messy
one, and still we focus on the mess. The Nine
Rooms of Happiness pinpoints common self- destructive
patterns of behavior and offers key processes that will help
readers clean up their emotional architecture. After each
room is "clean," Danziger and Birndorf show ushow we can
spend time on ourselves figuring out what is most meaningful
to us— finding larger passion and purpose that makes
returning to the rest of our house a pleasure, no matter
what calamity or mess awaits. The result? After
reading this book you'll think differently about the things
that are bringing you down and be able to live a happier,
more joy filled life, in every room of your emotional house.
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