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The Happiness Trap
- How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
- Narrated by: Russ Harris
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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- Anonymous User
- 2023-03-05
So happy!
So inspirational!! I bought the book, read it, then bought the audible to listen to it over and over. Amazing job!!
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- Brendan Carmichael
- 2023-11-30
Classic, must read!
One of the best self help books of all time! It shoots not be missed.
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- Josie Kehler
- 2023-06-21
Been waiting for this kind of help for a long time
I am not through the whole book yet but am learning alot about unhooking and anchoring which is much needed in my life.
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- Xiaowei Zhang
- 2022-08-01
ACT is great
Too heavy for listening while doing something else. More of the type of book to actually read instead of listening to, but content is great.
Helped me with my anxiety and depression.
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- Ashley Boss
- 2023-07-08
It’s genuinely changed my life
I don’t have enough words for how this book has helped me. I have shared it with everyone I know. I have bought the hard copy after hearing the audio book just so I can make notes. I feel heard, seen, and validated for the first time in my life. I got this book at the perfect time (I’ve had a life time of trauma, struggle with rumination depression and anxiety, and last year, at 35 years old, i was diagnosed with ADHD. it’s been really hard for me. It’s like I don’t know who I am. This book helped me start identifying this and gave me the tools to move forward.) I’m so grateful for its information and I can’t wait to keep diving deeper into ACT and establish a consistent practice and become who I am meant to be.
Thank you Russ Harris. Thank you so so much. There is more information in this book than any other “self help” book I’ve ever read. He doesn’t impose beliefs or ideas on you like a lot seem to, he simply shares his knowledge in a kind, and numerous way. I can’t wait to listen to it all over again.
Buy this book. Listen to it. Do what it recommends. It will honestly change your life.
Thank you so much for finally providing the information I needed. I’ve been searching for this my whole life.
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