The Happiness Trap (Second Edition): How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
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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 escaping the “happiness trap.”
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 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 fulfilment at work
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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Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers say this second edition is informative, empowering, and life-changing, with especially clear and approachable language. Many readers call it an excellent introduction to ACT principles and say it helps them accept anxiety and improve their mental state, while a smaller set of reviewers criticize the pacing and some examples as repetitive or unhelpful.
Goodreads readers also describe it as quick to read and straight to the point, with the second edition noted for adding substantial new material. YouTube review results include multiple videos specifically about The Happiness Trap, including one clearly titled as a book review and others framed as summaries or detailed reviews of the same title.
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Specifications
| Topic | Happiness |
Product Details
| Publisher | Shambhala |
| Publication date | July 5, 2022 |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1645471160 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1645471165 |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Dimensions | 6 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,183 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) #7 in Emotional Mental Health #13 in Stress Management Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (6,013) |
