Depression is not a choice. People don’t wake up and think they would like to feel unhappy, empty, or unmotivated all the time. Unfortunately, many of us do not understand depression, and those that are affected, do not want to be portrayed as weak or mentally unstable if they seek help. Thankfully, the stigma around mental health is lifting as more and more people share their stories. This book takes the reader on a journey to discover natural ways to overcome depression and achieve good mind health. In an inspiring, candid guide and cookbook, Holly June shares insight into how she journeyed through clinical depression to eventually achieve overall happiness through four pillars of mind wellness. After offering a glimpse into her personal story and wellness philosophy, June leads others through a holistic roadmap that provides valuable tools and information regarding foods to eat to attain good mind health, exercises that improve the mood, lifestyle changes that relieve anxiety and manage stress, and ways to live more emotionally and spiritually. Included are over seventy delicious recipes that utilize fresh, wholesome ingredients that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. The Journey Back to Happiness is a compassionate, practical guide to overcoming depression through easy-to-implement natural tools that help create a meaningful, healthy, and happy life.

We all face different challenges in life-we lose loved ones or jobs, fail at relationships or at achieving our goals. While our pain and grief are incomparable among us, one thing is true of all of us: we were created for happiness. But how do you reclaim this birthright in the face of devastating loss, or even just amid the daily hurts and disappointments that pile up year after year? Step one: acceptance. By choosing to accept the reality of your circumstances, you make a mental shift that allows the healing process to begin. The surprising result? Peace. It may not arrive immediately; but slowly and surely, you will begin to experience a serene equilibrium that has nothing to do with your outer circumstances. Acceptance is just the first step in your journey to reclaim a vibrant life. In her book Back to Happy: A Journey of Hope, Healing, and Waking Up, Connie T. Bowman shares how she rediscovered joy after the death of her first child. In addition to personal stories, she offers nine practical steps you can take toward healing as well as links to podcast interviews and a list of helpful books, videos, prayers, and poems.

Your Journey to Happiness This book will guide you on your path of self discovery. If you go through each chapter and honestly go through each exercise, I promise it will help you to: Greater appreciation for yourself. Release guilt and blame. Forgive yourself and others. Recognize the good in your life today. Set realistic goals you can and will achieve. Better balance all aspects of your life. Learn how to act vs. react to people and situations. Release stress and fear Utilize your internal guidance system -emotions and intuition. Control your thoughts to create the life you want. Live in awareness to harness the power of now. All of these things are part of the ten steps in this book to take on your path to fulfillment and lasting happiness. Enjoy every step because the joy is in the journey!

The Happiness Journey introduces you to the science of happiness. In it you will discover groundbreaking new research on how we can be happier and mentally healthier from the fields of psychology, biology, sociology, neuroscience, and more. Through empirical studies, robust data, and methodical research, scientists are uncovering the fundamental principles of human happiness. The Happiness Journey brings those principles to you.

Consistent with the most recent research in brain science on fear and happiness, this imaginative tale gift wraps all the power of a groundbreaking self-help book into one rollercoaster of a story. Colorful, thought-provoking lessons stay with the reader long after finishing the last page. A car accident leaves Liza, a successful single mom, unconscious. Trapped inside her subconscious and hijacked by her imagination, Liza learns firsthand how her thinking shapes her life. Her thoughts carry her away to dangerous and mysterious places, each gifting a lesson of how fear influences her thoughts, beliefs and the fullness of love in her relationships. Happiness, she discovers, is a function of her thinking. During her journey Liza uncovers secrets to rid herself of the fear-based behaviors that are inconsistent with her true self. To her delight, breaking free from the shackles of fear is simpler than she ever dreamed. Happiness is just a thought away...with practice. The book serves as an ongoing resource for those interested in the art of intentional living.

This is a lucid and passionate approach to the science of happiness and its conditioning factors: emotions, stress, hormonal flows, and aging, as well as the social, economic, cultural, and religious aspects associated with the emotion.

Slightly overweight, pale and discontented, Christine begins her journey from southern France to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain on a quest to fit into a deliciously skimpy silk Bellino top. Along "The Way", she meets characters whose paths intertwine with hers for a few days or for a lifetime. In lurid detail and with relatable humour, Chris blends the physical and spiritual journey of her pilgrimage with stories of the past that have made her into the person she is today.