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

Author: Lucy Danziger, Catherine Birndorf

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2010


Synopsis

Ask any woman how she's feeling. Even when things look pretty darn great from the outside, chances are that at least one thing (and it may seem minor to others) is nagging at her, making her feel less than spectacular, bringing her down: I'm too fat. My husband doesn't help enough around the house. My friend is going to be mad if I don't call her back. Why don't my kids try harder at school? My job is less than inspiring. Whatever happened to that old boyfriend, the one who got away?

Whether it's the size of our thighs or our bank accounts, there always seems to be something that isn't measuring up to our high standards—and we let the dissatisfaction spill over into other areas of our lives, distracting us from taking pleasure in everything that's going right.

In The Nine Rooms of Happiness, Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self magazine, and women's health psychiatrist Catherine Birndorf use the metaphor of a house to release us from this phenomenon. In this house, the living room is where we deal with friendships and our social life; the bedroom is where we explore intimacy, romance, relationships, and sex; the bathroom is for issues relating to health and body image; the kitchen is for nourishment and the division of chores; and so on. Our "inner house" can have eight beautifully designed, neat and tidy rooms and one messy one, and still we focus on the mess.

The Nine Rooms of Happiness pinpoints common self-destructive patterns of behavior and offers key processes that will help listeners clean up their emotional architecture. After each room is "clean," Danziger and Birndorf show us how we can spend time on ourselves figuring out what is most meaningful to us—finding larger passion and purpose that makes returning to the rest of our house a pleasure, no matter what calamity or mess awaits.

The result? This book will help you think differently about the things that are bringing you down and be able to live a happier, more joy-filled life, in every room of your emotional house.

About Lucy Danziger

Lucy Danziger has been editor in chief of Self magazine for more than eight years and has grown the circulation to over six million monthly readers. Lucy lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristen

This book will impact every reader differently based on where they are in life, their past, their present and their future. It's at times hard to follow but at minimum EVERY woman should read the epilogue. For me, it was the most meaningful and moving and takes about five minutes to read but will ma......more

Goodreads review by Stacy

This is a pretty easy read, with a good metaphor for thinking about happiness. There are some good mantras that they call "pearls" that are easy to remember and call upon when unhappy thoughts start to creep in. I enjoyed the book and intend to look through it again before returning it to the librar......more

Goodreads review by Blue

This sounded like a great book, but I was disappointed to find that many of the examples didn't really pertain to myself or my current situation. I suppose they are more broad and not specific to appeal to a wide audience of women, but I'm all about specifics. Also, in reading the few stories that d......more