Happy Not Perfect, Poppy Jamie
Happy Not Perfect, Poppy Jamie
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Happy Not Perfect
Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

Author: Poppy Jamie

Narrator: Poppy Jamie

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2021


Synopsis

A clear path to overcoming uncertainty, perfectionism, and fears of rejection so you can finally find peace with the past and create a happier, healthier future

“Poppy’s powerful approach will help you take control of your thoughts so they don’t control you.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Even before the pandemic brought on a crushing wave of stress, anxiety, isolation, life change, and financial struggle, there was already a growing mental health crisis. Due to a culture that encourages perfection, hustle, and fictional life/work balance, many are burning out. Behind her Instagram-projected image of “happy wellness founder,” Poppy Jamie was also struggling mightily with perfectionism and life purpose.

She began working with mental health experts and researchers to find practical tools to overcome her inner critic and rewire her mind. She discovered that it is possible to create new neural pathways in your brain to break patterns of avoidance, challenge fears of not being good enough, and turn failure around by stretching the mind with new, healthier thought habits. The old wiring (and habits) that you’ve been stuck with can be written-over. You can actually upgrade your headspace to make curiosity, vulnerability, compassion, and emotional flexibility your default settings.

In the emphatic and trusted voice of Bridget Jones meets neuroscience, Poppy shares her Flexy Thoughts approach for changing how you react to emotional triggers and think of yourself while improving your mental and physical health, relationships, and vision of the future.

Our emotional resilience may continue to be tested, but the new perspectives and strategies in Happy Not Perfect will help us bring confidence, adaptability, and acceptance to whatever comes next.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jasmine on February 19, 2021

I’m not typically a person that will pick a self help book above other things, but this was a nice change of pace! Happy Not Perfect is a book that challenges people to be flexible with their thinking. We often find ourselves fixated on things that do not serve us, or we hide the qualities that make......more

Goodreads review by Emma on March 12, 2022

A flexible future is knowing that there are unlimited ways to become the living embodiment of our chosen values, which is our purpose and completely individual. I picked up Happy Not Perfect as I needed to read a self-help book for a reading challenge. I went in very skeptical and finished the book......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 25, 2021

This book wasn't for me, but I can appreciate what the author was going for. First off, I had no idea who the author was, so I looked her up and she's an influencer/designer. This book is a sort of memoir that sprinkles in advice she's learned. I have to say, if I were one of her followers, I would......more

Goodreads review by Zoë on July 01, 2021

this book is very aesthetic and looks pretty on the shelf! :-) writing wise, i’m cringing......more


Quotes

“After perhaps one of the most a­nxiety-ridden years in our recent history, this book by wellness founder Poppy Jamie is a welcome read . . . [Jamie] details her work with mental health experts and researchers to uncover effective brain-rewiring strategies. Through her experience, you̕ll glean advice on how to be more adaptable and accepting of our very uncertain world.”—mindbodygreen

“Poppy is one of my favorite voices in the world, always in pursuit of understanding, information, and empathy.”—Jameela Jamil

Happy Not Perfect is a must-read if perfectionism, comparing yourself to others, and thinking you’re inadequate is taking you down. The strategies here are well thought out, practical, easy to implement, effective, and life-changing. Using them, you’ll experience breakthroughs that lead to less anxiety, more emotional freedom, and genuine connection with others. Thank you, Poppy Jamie, for gifting us with your FLEX approach!”—Joan Rosenberg, PhD, author of 90 Seconds to a Life You Love

“For the past four years Poppy has been campaigning for better mental well-being education and accessible tools. She is inspirational and makes complex problems easy to understand. She teaches when you don’t think you’re being taught, so suddenly you leave a conversation with Poppy feeling amazing and realizing you know so much more than before you started. She’s on speed dial when I need some words of wisdom mid-crisis!”—Suki Waterhouse

“What Poppy does in Happy Not Perfect is marshal the evidence from a legion of world-renowned thinkers, living and dead, to demonstrate the reality that striving for perfection is counter-productive, that before we can be happy we must offer ourselves compassion and ultimately, that the solution to our own happiness is not external but internal. She offers innumerable examples and practical techniques that gives us the tools necessary to be the architects of our own happiness and recognize that to be happy, one doesn’t have to be perfect.”—James R. Doty, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University

“I believe mental health is one of the most important things to address in our society today so that it can become more widely accepted and less ʽshameful’ to talk about. That’s why it’s called mental HEALTH after all. The work that Poppy has done to normalize and celebrate the conversation around mental health has been beyond generous. I’m so grateful to have gotten to know her beautiful soul. From the minute you meet her, you can immediately sense that her mission in life is to help others.”—Julianne Hough

Happy Not Perfect takes what I teach people in therapy and puts it all in a book you can keep by your side.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone