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The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living Paperback – 1 March 2007
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In this controversial but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harris reveals how millions of people are misled by popular ideas about happiness, unwittingly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression.
There is a growing number of people who feel something is missing from their lives; that despite financial or family success they are not truly happy, and there must be ‘more to life’. Unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse!
This bestselling book explains how people become caught in ‘The Happiness Trap’, striving to conform to popular ideas about happiness and instead feeling worn-out and anxious. It provides an effective means to escape, through a revolutionary new approach which is shaking the very foundations of western psychology.
Within these pages you will learn scientifically proven techniques to:
- reduce stress and worry
- rise above fear, doubt and insecurity
- effectively handle painful thoughts and feelings
- break self-defeating habits
- improve performance and find fulfilment in your work
- build more satisfying relationships
This book is for everyone, from CEOs to sales staff; astronauts to housewives. Whether you’re lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, or suffering from anxiety or depression, this book will unlock the secrets to living a fulfilled, meaningful life.
- Print length284 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherExisle Publishing
- Publication date1 March 2007
- Dimensions15.1 x 2 x 23.4 cm
- ISBN-100908988907
- ISBN-13978-0908988907
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A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment.
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 controversial but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harris reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in 'The Happiness Trap'! He then provides an effective means to escape, through a revolutionary new approach which is shaking the very foundations of western psychology.
This book is for everyone, from CEOs to sales staff, from astronauts to housewives. Whether you're lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, suffering from anxiety or depression, or preparing for the performance of your life - within these pages you will learn 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, above all,
- create a rich, full and meaningful life.
'Dr Harris shines a powerful beacon forward into the night. enjoy the journey. You are in excellent hands.' Steven Hayes - bestselling author of Get Out of Your Mind And Into Your Life
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- Publisher : Exisle Publishing (1 March 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 284 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0908988907
- ISBN-13 : 978-0908988907
- Dimensions : 15.1 x 2 x 23.4 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 12,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 59 in Self-Help for Anger Management
- 185 in Mental Stress
- 185 in Self-Help for Stress Management
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Dr Russ Harris is world-renowned trainer in ACT, a therapist and a coach, with a background in medicine (as a general practitioner). He has run hundreds of workshops, providing training over fifty thousand health professionals around the world. He is the author of several bestselling ACT-based textbooks and self-help books. The Happiness Trap is an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold worldwide and editions published in over thirty languages.
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I hope anyone out there struggling, finds the right path, healing and support as well.
Maybe this book can help you too .
Excellent writing. Clear and concise.


That said, it's still a 5 star book for me.

