I happened to catch a segment on the Today show about a new book called The Nine Rooms of Happiness. I thought it sounded a bit corny at first, or I was skeptical about a new self-help book. But I was quickly wooed by the authors — Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self magazine, and Catherine Birndorf, MD, a women’s health psychiatrist in New York City.
The same day I got a message from the folks at Self offering to send me a copy of the book to review. I get these types of requests all the time (”read this book,” ”eat this product,” etc.). This time, I thought, yes, this book might be worth taking a look at.
You can learn more about the book by visiting this site Nine Rooms of Happiness or Self magazine. Here’s a video with the authors:
The book uses the metaphor of a house to talk about our emotional life — the living room is where we deal with friendships and our social life, the bathroom is where we face issues of health and body image, the kitchen is about nourishment 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.
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. [click to continue…]
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