The Happiness Trap

How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

De: Russ Harris

Narrado por: Russ Harris

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 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

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 by 50 percent 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 fulfillment at work

New topics include activating self-compassion; how to deal with loneliness, grief, and trauma; how to work with difficult behaviors like people-pleasing, perfectionism, and procrastination; and how to make difficult decisions.

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.

©2008 Russ Harris (P)2022 Shambhala Publications

Truly awesome

Chalk full of practical ideas and steps to more fully live with purpose. I can’t think of another book that has more value per chapter. Definitely tops my self help book list.

5/5

learned a lot, love how he has a tiny workshop within the book to help yourself more. He helps, you write. highly recommend. thank you for helping me see things differently!

Great book with helpful applications!

I thought this book was well balanced between theory/science and personal examples and practical application.

Really great practical book

Loved the author’s candor and encouragement. Helps break things down into digestible pieces. I am planning on reading his book on relationships too!

wonderful book!

Great content, performed well. I use a lot of these principles and techniques in my coaching practice