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Rather, according to Seligman, true, enduring happiness (i.e. ‘authentic happiness’) is the result of paying attention to one’s personal strengths rather than focusing on perceived weaknesses. From relaxing games to creative outlet, Happy Color is the ideal game to follow you everywhere. Discover a coloring book mixing art games and coloring games, all wrapped in an app that will accompany you through your antistress needs. A story about unexpected friendship, romance, and Texas-size girl power, this is another winner from Julie Murphy.
Relaxing games and art therapy: paint your worries away with our art games. With true antistress effects, our coloring games game will allow you to express yourself creatively and enjoy the calming effects of art therapy. How can we keep our minds in a happy mood, and continue loving, when life itself is complicated, challenging and frequently disappointing?
Experience the antistress effect of an adult coloring book: our coloring games are the perfect solution when you're facing boredom, need to express yourself creatively or when you need to turn to relaxing games to decompress. Just start painting a Disney, Marvel or nature piece of art and feel your worries seep away. While a working knowledge of current events is important, all too often we’re immersed in the 24-hour news cycle and when negativity abounds, our mental health and sense of well-being begin to erode. Weber shares his ongoing pursuit of Zen meditation practice and the things he has learned about bettering one’s life from the laboratory… which is actually his yoga mat! Quitter by Jon Acuff:From figuring out what your dream is to quitting in a way that exponentially increases your chance of success, Quitter is full of inspiring stories and actionable advice. This book is based on 12 years of cubicle living and Acuff’s true story of cultivating a dream job that changed his life and the world in the process. It’s time to close the gap between your day job and your dream job. With her MA in English from Rutgers University-Camden, Brandie spends her days chasing around her toddlers and writing. She loves to pair wine with her reading; preferably a Brontë, or an Elliot, or a Woolf novel. Depending on the mood. She currently lives in Florida with her husband, two kids and furry beast.
Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment. How to Walk Away is Katherine Center at her very best — a masterpiece of a novel that is both hopeful and hilarious; truthful and wise; tender and brave.” 11. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson:A humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest.“I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people’ also might never understand. And that’s what Furiously Happy is all about.” Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things.Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems , published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity , published in 2015. “ 23. Women Were Birds: Fifty Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams On New Year’s Eve, 1984, Lilian Boxfish, 84, takes a walk around New York City. The book is a a combination of the encounters she has as she meanders through the city, and her reflections on her life—arriving in the city in the 1920s, her career in advertising, her marriage and divorce, motherhood. It’s a quiet book about ordinary things, and it left me with a sense of peace. No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal Short of going all Henry Thoreau and retreating to the woods for a while, what can we do to lift our spirits, find an escape, and change the things we think about? The first and most obvious step is to abstain from social media, but that’s not entirely effective — or even possible, in many cases. A second possibility is to fill our brains with good stuff; to seek out positivity and nourish our souls with that instead.What books have lifted your spirits, warmed your heart, or made you smile? Leave your suggestions in the comments below. Advice from my 80-Year-Old Selfby Susan O’Malley & Christina Amini:What advice would your 80-year-old self give you? That is the question artist Susan O’Malley, who was herself to die far too young, asked more than a hundred ordinary people of every age, from every walk of life. She then transformed their responses into vibrant text-based images. From a prompt to do things that matter to your heart, to a reminder that it’s okay to have sugar in your tea, these are calls to action and words to live by—heartfelt, sometimes humorous, and always fiercely compassionate. I am very interested in your thoughts… have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think? Would you recommend any to someone with a bit of time on their hands? Please comment below! MILLIE MICHALCHUK IS OUR QUEEN. If you need more Millie in your life after reading, then streaming, Dumplin’, don’t forget that our fave has a novel all her own!
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