Self Joy

Striving not to be average is exhausting and breaking us. Our pursuit of success and perfection is blinding us to the everyday pleasures of the ordinary. Trying to be across our friends, our family, social media, our careers and our hobbies all the time can be damaging. We have been sold the story that we can do it all, that we are superhuman and that being above average is the path to success and happiness. But it's time we pressed pause. It's time to rediscover our appreciation of the ordinary and the average - that space where most of the best things happen.

Jasmine Yap’s life is great. Well, it’s okay. She’s about to move in with her longtime boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college - all of which she mostly wants. But her stable world is turned upside down when she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul’s loss is their golden ticket to showing Jasmine that she deserves much more. The only problem is, Jasmine refuses to meet anyone new. But...what if the family set up a situation where she wouldn’t have to know? A secret Jasmine Project.

As you discover what your emotions tell you, you’ll uncover the essence of what you truly love in life. Inside The Joy Cycle, you’ll follow this process by reflecting on your emotions, the gratitude they trigger, and the joy this creates in your life. As you repeat that cycle over and over, you’ll finally begin to experience and comprehend that elusive goal of Happiness.

Can you remember the utter delight of playing chase, flying a kite, or getting messy with a box of paints? As children, playing is how we make sense of the world and our place in it. Why then, as adults, do we forget how to play? Drawing on more than 20 years of neuroscientific research and clinical practice, psychotherapist Joanna Fortune has discovered that play is central to the human experience–and is the key to living a happier, joyful life.

A powerful, loving presence I can’t quite describe pulses through me...clearing my mind at last...I am astonished by this second chance—this feeling of warm, tender, indescribable, and unconditional love permeating me. Danét’s ability to unflinchingly express her raw innermost thoughts and feelings during moments of darkness and coming into her own light provide a powerfully transforming listen. This memoir is a story of forgiveness, redemption, and the restoration of self-love and abundant joy.

I Am the Energy of Trust, Acceptance, and Power is based on the inspiring, true story of Hounaïda Bellasfar, a woman who has traversed cultural barriers to build and create who she wanted to be. Born highly sensitive, she traveled between the visible and the invisible worlds to find her personal truth. Hounaïda’s journey has led her through isolation, discovery, and a career that culminated in architecture, coaching, and writing, across France, the UK, and Canada.

This book is a guide for teens and young adults. It is a detailed book on everything you will need to know to set up your new life. It will hopefully keep you from failing, although you can always learn from your mistakes. From years of experience, I am able to show you the way to begin having a happy, healthy, prosperous life.

It's not necessary to be happy all of the time. By applying the simple three-step principles in this book, however, you can develop the ability to be happy whenever you choose! Dr. Teitelbaum's personal experience with thousands of very ill patients shows that these techniques can help you reclaim both health and passion in your life.

Computer game habit is another idea of fixation with the presentation of computer games over the most recent 20 years or something like that. It is viewed as a mental compulsion, instead of a physical one and an individual who lives with this kind of dependence feels constrained to invest a ton of energy playing computer games alone or with companions. Get all that you have to know here.

Dr. Adrianne Ahern's powerful program can help you make a quantum leap to a life with purpose, joy, and excellence. Snap Out of It Now! is your guide to do-it-yourself fulfillment-whether you want more self-confidence, wealth, love, or just more fun! Dr. Ahern's 4-step method teaches you to stop the negative thinking, look at what you really want for yourself, listen to the feelings in your body - your inner guidance - and breathe away the negativity. These are the keys to connecting with your inner joy.

It's hard to separate work from life, maybe because work is part of everything we do, both at home and in the workplace. But one thing is certain - when we improve the quality of our work, we improve the quality of our lives. Having held 18 different jobs in various fields, author Amanda Dickson is keenly aware that not all work is equally enjoyable. In the trademark enthusiastic style, she offers practical suggestions for finding joy in whatever work you do.

Inside this transformative audiobook, you'll discover a carefully curated collection of affirmations, each a radiant gem designed to uplift your spirits and invite joy into every facet of your existence. These powerful affirmations act as daily companions, guiding you on a journey towards a more joy-filled and purposeful life.

In his blockbuster book The Law of the Garbage Truck, David J. Pollay showed how to deflect the negativity that derails our goals and leaves us stressed and miserable. Now, in this inspiring follow-up, Pollay explains how making three simple promises to yourself - "to find joy every day, do what you love, and make a difference" - can radically enhance every aspect of your life. Illustrating his points through memorable, personal stories, Pollay makes it simple to practice transformative strategies that help us achieve fulfillment.

Wild World, Joyful Heart is both a rally cry and a guidebook for attaining the physical, emotional, and mental health that you deeply desire. Will you use your mind as a bridge or a barrier? This question is the thread that you'll follow through Laurie’s extensive research, clinical experience, and unique story-telling style to create better health and more joy in your everyday life. This book is an invitation to bravely inhabit your life in a whole new way - while your joy, contentment, and wholeness reverberate out to stitch up our wounded world.

Each of us desires happiness in our lives. And why shouldn't we? It's a desire that's central to all of human nature! Despite this fact, so many of us spend our lives chasing the elusive state of being known as happiness, yet few manage to find it and even fewer manage to retain it for very long. Best-selling author Dan Howe unlocks the deep mysteries concerning the keys to not only achieving happiness, but how to maintain it throughout your life and even how to call more of it into your life at will!

Tired of feeling exhausted at the end of the day? Do you wish you could feel happier in your everyday life? In Turn your Happiness On, you will find the most powerful, scientifically proven, simple strategies to increase your feelings of happiness right now. Norma Nikutowski wrote this book to share the insights she gained from counseling people who were struggling to find joy. She also tells stories of her own search for happiness and the sometimes humbling experiences which taught her so much. Her mission is to help as many people as possible enjoy their lives.

What are you searching for in life? Is there a void that you are desperately attempting to fill? Are you wondering what might be next? The job, relationship, salary, title, status, and so much more have been the focal point of so many explorations. These things are sought after in hopes of bringing ultimate and sustaining joy. However, they never do.

Pluck narcissism out from the roots and build long-lasting, mutually beneficial, nurturing relationships with those you love! Have you been called a narcissist not one or two times, and you want to understand whether you are one and what you can do to become a more wholesome person if this is, in fact, true? Or perhaps something at the back of your mind tells you that you might have narcissistic tendencies, and you're looking to do a bit of introspection regarding this? Either way, this guide will be your shining light!

Losing someone you love can be a devastating experience. It is often excruciatingly painful and hard to wrap your mind around. Trying to take in the reality of death and then figuring out how to move forward can leave you overwhelmed, shattered, heartbroken, and frightened. And because it feels impossible to accept the unacceptable, we learn by osmosis to put misery on the back burner and pretend we're mostly okay.

Stop! is not a book about health, wellness, stress reduction, diet, and exercise. There are thousands of books on those topics. Stop! is not fundamentally a business or a self-help book. Eric Parmenter's Stop!, based on the latest behavioral and brain science, is designed to help you figure out what you can stop doing to create more space in your life to enhance your joy, your well-being, and productivity, so that you can live a life on purpose.