Activating Happiness: A Jump-Start Guide to Overcoming Low Motivation, Depression, or Just Feeling Stuck

Activating Happiness: A Jump-Start Guide to Overcoming Low Motivation, Depression, or Just Feeling Stuck

Activating Happiness: A Jump-Start Guide to Overcoming Low Motivation, Depression, or Just Feeling Stuck

Activating Happiness: A Jump-Start Guide to Overcoming Low Motivation, Depression, or Just Feeling Stuck

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Overview

It’s not just big choices that can radically change our lives—sometimes it’s the small ones. Activating Happiness offers powerful, evidence-based strategies to help you conquer low motivation, nix negative moods, and defeat depression by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments.

If you have depression or just suffer from low mood and lack of motivation, you know that your life isn’t going to change with one grand, sweeping gesture. But you can make important decisions every day—whether it’s getting off the couch and going for a walk, signing up for a course in pottery or screenwriting, or just setting aside some time to meet and chat with a good friend over coffee. These little things won’t change your life all at once. But over time, they will shape the way you live and see the world and keep you on a path to wellness.

In Activating Happiness, you’ll find solid strategies based in behavioral activation and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you break the cycle of avoidance, guilt, shame, and hopelessness that can take hold when you’re feeling your lowest. Using this guide, you’ll find little, doable ways to “show up” to your life, get the ball rolling, and start really feeling better, instead of just reassuring others. You’ll learn to set healthy goals for your body like eating and sleeping well, as well as healthy goals for your mind. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to view your life through the lens of your own deepest values, which will spark a commitment to real, lasting change.

The best thing about change is that you can start anywhere. By building a life—moment by moment—of rewarding behaviors that correspond to your values, you have the recipe for getting and staying well at your fingertips. This book will guide your way.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626259430
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 12/01/2017
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 521,581
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Rachel Hershenberg, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the research and treatment of depression. She is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University, and director of psychotherapy in Emory’s Treatment Resistant Depression program. She has published over twenty-five peer-reviewed publications and has appeared as a guest specialist on local radio.


Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD, is distinguished professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. In addition to his teaching, clinical supervision, and research, he maintains a limited practice of psychotherapy in New York City. He is past president of the psychotherapy division of the American Psychological Association, and author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Clinical Behavior Therapy, Converging Themes in Psychotherapy, Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration, From Cognitive-Behavior Therapy to Psychotherapy Integration, and How Therapists Change.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Principle 1: Approach Rather Than Avoid
Principle 2: Self-Care Generates More
Energy to Engage in Activities You Value
Principle 3: Procrastination Is an Emotional
Decision to Avoid Discomfort
Principle 4: When Your Schedule Is Full,
You Do More
Principle 5: Stay On Track by Sharing
Momentary Victories
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes

Interviews

Hershenberg resides in Brookhaven, GA.

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