Anna Napawan’s Happiness Workbook: a CTB based guide to fostering positivity, and embracing joy, receives four stars for me. I feel the book has more potential than what I did with it at this current moment, so in the future, I may change it to five stars.
I decided to do this book because I recognized that I wasn’t a very happy person. Not that I am having depression, but simply that I wasn’t happy I didn’t control negative thoughts that sort of thing. I bought this book with the hope that I could learn more about what happiness is, and how I could go about becoming a more happy person. I think the author does a good job of directing the reader through exercises and points to ponder on defining happiness, understanding what happiness is, and then how to go about developing a set of skills to which one could embrace happiness skills with which one could endure difficult times, and come out in a more positive way.
I went through the book rather quickly, because I wanted to get a Lee of the land. I feel that I need to go back and redo the book, taking my time on each of the chapters, practicing the different skills, finding points in my day where I need to use those skills.
I think some thing that I would like to see may be done by this author or by another is a daily workbook with one exercise that one does a day so that you can focus on that one thing. I’m sure it’s out there.
Recommended: yes, if you’re a person who is concerned about negative thoughts, or intrusive thoughts, this book could be very helpful to you.