The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Russ Harris (Author, Narrator), Shambhala Publications (Publisher)

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Free yourself from depression, anxiety, and insecurity, and instead build a rich and meaningful life with the updated and expanded edition of the world’s best-selling guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Over 1 million copies sold!

In The Happiness Trap, Dr. Russ Harris provides a means to escape the epidemic of stress, anxiety, and depression, unlocking the secrets to a truly fulfilling life.

Updated and expanded by 50 percent in its second edition, this empowering book presents the insights and techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), covering more topics and providing more practical tools than ever before. Learn how to clarify your values, develop self-compassion, and find true satisfaction with this bigger and better guide to:

Reducing stress and worry
Handling painful thoughts and feelings more effectively
Breaking self-defeating habits
Overcoming insecurity and self-doubt
Building better relationships
Improving performance and finding fulfillment at work

New topics include activating self-compassion; how to deal with loneliness, grief, and trauma; how to work with difficult behaviors like people-pleasing, perfectionism, and procrastination; and how to make difficult decisions.

The Happiness Trap is for everyone. 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 show you how to build authentic happiness, from the inside out.

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12 hours and 19 minutes
Author

Russ Harris
Narrator

Russ Harris
Audible release date

8 January 2022
Language

English
Publisher

Shambhala Publications
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B09PMC66WY
Version

Unabridged
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Listening Length	12 hours and 19 minutes
Author	Russ Harris
Narrator	Russ Harris
Audible.com.au Release Date	08 January 2022
Publisher	Shambhala Publications
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09PMC66WY
Best Sellers Rank	204 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 2 in Mood Disorders (Audible Books & Originals) 3 in Depression (Books) 7 in Cognitive Psychology (Books)

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The Shepherds

Helpful and informative read

Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2019

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Was delivered quickly and a great price. Cheaper than I could find elsewhere. Great book and highly recommend to anyone wishing to find ways to increase their overall happiness.

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Miss P

Life changing book

Reviewed in Australia on 10 June 2021

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I love this book, it will help you manage your thoughts and deal with struggles you may have. Also great just for a different perspective, recommended by my therapist.

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Richard

great book

Reviewed in Canada on 1 December 2020

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I have read many self help books. This one saved my life . This one improved my quality of living. I am forever grateful.
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.

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pammy g

An excellent book for worriers or people who are prone to bouts of depression.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2016

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What a boss book this is! So informative and puts a total new angle on how the mind perceives things and lowers your mood or causes anxiety. It's taught me a lot.

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Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2017

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good service excellant product would recomend.

R Walt

Awesome book but impossible to practice without daily commitment

Reviewed in Canada on 23 February 2018

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Wow. This is a great book, and ACT is a very creative and well-articulated fusion of psychology and Buddhist wisdom. This is basically the highlights of Buddhism distilled into a modern, non-religious psychotherapy method. And it's explained so clearly and without needing to reference Buddhist terminology (kind of like being able to drive a car without knowing how the engine works). The beauty of ACT is how intuitively right it is: we can't escape suffering and we can't escape the fact that our brain produces thousands of thoughts every day (some useful, some completely useless and negative), so we might as well recognize them, make room for them and act on our values anyway. If there's any fault with the book, it's that it doesn't emphasize or honestly describe the commitment involved in building up awareness and mindfulness to the point that you can observe and defuse your daily sensations, thoughts. There's no shortcut or quick way to develop the level of mindfulness needed to effectively practice ACT on a daily basis. There are monks who dedicate their entire lives to building up their level of awareness and concentration, and to suggest that this can be attained without a committed practice is just false advertising. And unfortunately, this is one of the foundations of ACT, so if you've tried other self-help/improvement methods before and then fizzled out, the same will likely happen with this one unless you make some sort of mindfulness exercise a core practice in your life. This comes as a consequence of borrowing wisdom from another practice and distilling it out of context for another purpose. The wisdom does apply in psychotherapy, but the original practice is a long, challenging path.

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

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2016

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Useful tool for therapy.

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