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The Happy Book: Positive Self Care Journal and Activity Book for Women
The Happy Book shows how to practice and celebrate happiness so you can find it when you really need it. Packed with creative prompts, wacky ideas, and hip activities, this is the ultimate pick-me-up. Packaged to encourage doodling and drawing, The Happy Book has space to scribble thoughts, make lists, fill in the blanks, and paste pictures. This book is about creating a record of what makes you glad, whether that means '80s hair bands or hot chocolate with churros.
Fully interactive and customizable for each reader, The Happy Book allows today's social networking fans an offline outlet for play. From photo scavenger hunts to cake baking to finger painting, everyone's happy formula is unique. The Happy Book enables readers to celebrate and share whatever gives them wall-to-wall joy.
Fully interactive and customizable for each reader, The Happy Book allows today's social networking fans an offline outlet for play. From photo scavenger hunts to cake baking to finger painting, everyone's happy formula is unique. The Happy Book enables readers to celebrate and share whatever gives them wall-to-wall joy.
208 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2009
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June 9, 2011
This is a brilliant book that prompts the reader to actively seek their own personal trail of happiness by identifying what makes them happy personally. A friend gave me this book hesitantly when I was in the middle of a personal crisis. While it seemed slightly odd, I took the effort to skim through it and found that was encouraged! Better yet, by asking myself some of the questions or following some of the challenges if even for a second, that second helped recall joy that I could document. Then I started chasing my own happiness by challenging myself daily. Before long and without a master plan, I had stepped outside my comfort zone to chase my happiness one step at a time, and was greatly rewarded. Before long, the book becomes your own personal reference guide of your happiness to skim through when you're having a not-so-happy day or moment. This is a fantastic book!
April 9, 2011
This is a cute little book! It is actually a journal that you fill in with your own ideas, feelings, etc. The focus of the book is the little things in life that can bring you happiness. Also there are some silly little exercises that will make you smile. And a smile is the first step to laughter which can lead to a little happiness. The activities include prompts, doodling, pasting pictures, list making, and writing down your thoughts with the intent of adding a little "pick me up" whenever you need it.
January 3, 2014
This is a most amazing journal with lots of creative prompts to have more happiness in your life. It's funny, it's joyful, it makes you smile and it makes you write and draw and paste pictures and enjoy your life more.
I loved it more than words can say. I'm still working on filling in my copy, and I've already bought Meg and Rachel's second book, "Secret Me" - and it's as awesome as this one by the way :)
I loved it more than words can say. I'm still working on filling in my copy, and I've already bought Meg and Rachel's second book, "Secret Me" - and it's as awesome as this one by the way :)
April 21, 2010
This book has numerous ideas of things that you can do to make yourself happy, and it also encourages you to document what makes you happy...I plan on starting a "happiness journal" that will incorporate many (if not all) of the ideas in this book, in addition to some of my own! :)
September 7, 2012
This book provides you with very short, simple journal prompts. You can respond by doodling, writing, or cut & pasting. Whatever you decide to do, you will find your mood lifted! It's so much fun!
December 24, 2012
AWWWWWWWWESOMMMMMMMe
May 17, 2015
I really love this book. I highly recommend it to all. I adore it so much, I gave it to several friends as gifts.
June 8, 2013
More of a journal than a book, but I love it. It is one of the most fun and quirky interactive journal and it is sure to make you smile.
March 9, 2022
An undated, free-flowing journal of activities to inspire your happiness. As I look back on my notes, I am astounded that it took me seven (!) years to work my way through this book and its many activities. Not all of them were my cup of tea and, had I completed them, I think I would have felt more foolish or awkward than happy. However, it did inspire me to find substitute activities and to delve into and think about the things that did (and do) make me happy.
September 12, 2018
Just a fun little happy book
June 27, 2014
A book full of prompts about happiness, essentially, a journal. During a period of time of grief processing this book was a valuable resource. Just seeing the bright pink cover made me happier. As a tool for stimulating some writing in my personal journals, and encouraging mindfulness it was helpful. But, as for the content of the book itself, there really isn't much here.
Lots of these prompts could easily come from various places on the internet, and although the doodles in it are cute and endearing, there really is no aid in this book to encourage you as a participant, or help you work through the turning sad-into-happy process. I would have been more pleased with this book if there was a little bit of emotional handholding, or even some more stories of happiness and perhaps combatting sadness from the authors, but there isn't. There's virtue in how perky the book is presented, but it also seems as if the authors forgot to include just how important it is to recall the happy things, lest the weight of the every day drag you to near-suicidal depths. They seem to have the concept that being happy is fun, but not the concept that training your brain to be happy is a weapon against darkness.
Lots of these prompts could easily come from various places on the internet, and although the doodles in it are cute and endearing, there really is no aid in this book to encourage you as a participant, or help you work through the turning sad-into-happy process. I would have been more pleased with this book if there was a little bit of emotional handholding, or even some more stories of happiness and perhaps combatting sadness from the authors, but there isn't. There's virtue in how perky the book is presented, but it also seems as if the authors forgot to include just how important it is to recall the happy things, lest the weight of the every day drag you to near-suicidal depths. They seem to have the concept that being happy is fun, but not the concept that training your brain to be happy is a weapon against darkness.
April 5, 2015
I have arthritis, so I didn't like this post it-version of a book. I had to tear out the pages and glue it down in another book. Just reading it in the way I bought it (online) made my hands hurt. I shouldn't have to take painkillers because I want to read a book! :( I didn't really enjoy the prompts, a lot of them was repetitive, the same pages over and over again. So no... it didn't really make me happy.
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July 8, 2011I need some more smiles these days. :)
December 20, 2015
I pick this up from time to time when I get inside my head and forget how many things I have to be thankful for that do truly make me happy.
January 19, 2015
This is a cute book filled with small reminders of simple ways to be happy. Reminders that we are already happy and all the things we have to be happy about.
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