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The Happiness Trap
The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living | Russ Harris
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A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. 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 easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides 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, create a rich, full and meaningful life.
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MrsMalaprop
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Psychological flexibility 🧠🙌

LeeRHarry I see the nails and I know it‘s you Serena! 😊 4mo
MrsMalaprop @LeeRHarry Fresh today 💅🏻😁 4mo
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MrsMalaprop
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Did a quick skim read of this today, because I‘ve recommended it to my husband & he‘s currently reading it.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a widely-used cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), & this book kind of started it all for Russ Harris.
I‘ve done his online introductory course & found it a useful approach in my work & life.
I find his style a little irritating, but it‘s good stuff 👍.
Be present. Open up. Do what matters.

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JuliaTheBookNerd
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My #LeastFaveGenre is probably self help books. I have a few but I tend to not find them very helpful so they tend to annoy me 😬

#BookBinge 📚❤️📚

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Eggs And there are SO MANY😳 1y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#FocusesOnMentalHealth 🧠💭 #MarchMagic 💚💰🌈🍀

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs Perfection 🤗💛 2y
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steverus87
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Taking myself out of my comfort zone. Stepping to the side of dragons werewolves and vampires... closing the magic books and focusing on the perceptions of mental health.

focused on the assumptions of suffering people who have this construct in their head of what everyone else is...

Beautiful facts of how the real world actually is ..educating us on what people take for granted. This book has grounded me.. humbling me to over reaction

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CatchMyBookBreath
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is Mental Health awareness month. Wanted to share a bookstack of some of my most frequently reached for titles. 📚 🙏

Sometimes the only comfort we have access to at the time is a book that really helps. What are your favorite books you reach for when you have had it with adulting already?

Every single person who speaks about their struggles makes it that much easier for someone else to feel heard and in good company.🏠 *

AmyG When I go through tough tImes I read Anne Lamott-Help Thanks Wow. She always comforts me and makes me feel hopeful. 7y
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Joanne1
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My second bail for the year. To be honest I didn't get far into the book, definitely less than 100 pages. I found the writing style so incredibly condescending I felt that even if there was some useful information I was not going to be open to it anyway. My happiness declined just reading this so I opted to end the torture. Anyone else get through it?

LauraJ Well, that was counterproductive! Thanks for saving me some time 😁 7y
Joanne1 Yes, I'd say don't bother. Then again, if you read the reviews on Goodreads I'm in the minority (though not alone). 7y
Jeg @Joanne1 I tried to read this sometime ago. Glad I‘m not the only one to bail. It seems to get lots of good reviews so I thought it was just me. 🙃 7y
Joanne1 @Jeg I know, so many good reviews and a friend recommended it to me. But so not my bag. 7y
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Joanne1
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First swimming lesson for the year with some happiness themes reading material to keep me occupied.

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CatchMyBookBreath
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Day 5 of #riotgrams - big books. I got this sticker from a very nice #librarian I meet at #makerfest from the Richmond public library.
Of course, the sticker is orange so we are still on the same book color pile! Lol *

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MillennialCareerCoach
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Really interesting. There were some parts I already knew but what I found most interesting was the discussion on ACT principles; getting comfortable feeling uncomfortable, creating room for discomfort, and defusing from negative thoughts and belief patterns to disempower their influence on your life.

RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! 7y
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NVanRy
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A pup slightly snoring definitely embraces this whole acceptance thing this book has got going on.

MrBook 😊 8y
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