The Nine Rooms of Happiness Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life's Little Imperfections

by Danziger, Lucy; Birndorf, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781401323356
• ISBN10: 1401323359
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

The editor-in-chief of "Self" magazine, along with one of its top columnists, offers this metaphor to understanding happiness via the rooms of a house. "Nine Rooms" is an entirely new, exciting approach to the problems that haunt most women.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Welcome to Our House...and Yours	p. 1
What's Stressing You Out, When Everything Should Be Great?	p. 9
You Have the Key to Your Own Happiness	p. 13
You're Happier Than You Think You Are	p. 21
Draw Your Emotional House	p. 30
Pearls and Other Bits of Portable Wisdom	p. 35
The Basement: Where the Memories Are Stored	p. 43
The Family Room: Where the People You Love Drive You Crazy	p. 58
The Living Room: Friends Are the Family You Choose	p. 85
The Office: You Earn Your Paycheck...and Your Stress	p. 106
The Bathroom: You're So Vain...and That's Not All Bad	p. 137
The Bedroom: Love, Sex, and Unmade Beds	p. 159
The Kitchen: Can't Stand the Heat? Must Be in the Kitchen	p. 189
The Kid's Room: Where Everything You Do is Wrong	p. 217
The Attic: Expectations and Other Emotional Heirlooms	p. 246
The Tenth Room: "Even My BlackBerry Gets to Recharge"	p. 260
Epilogue: Edith's Excellent Adventure...and Yours	p. 270
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