READ THIS: THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life’s Little Imperfections By Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf, M.D. ENCORE BY THE READ THIS PANEL

By Mover and Shaker Lucy Danziger, The Nine Rooms of Happiness is loved by Whom You Know so much we are giving it an encore review by our panel to kick off the New Year right!  Peachy Deegan says you ALL need to read this book.  Here is Lucy as a Mover and Shaker:
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2011/01/movers-and-shakers-lucy-danziger-editor.html



Our first review:
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2010/02/read-this-nine-rooms-of-happiness.html


The panel absolutely raves:


I read "The Nine Rooms of Happiness" in one day.  Not because I had to, but because I loved it so much I couldn't put it down.  This book spoke to me in a way that made me feel as if it was written for me and for only me.  I have always admired Lucy Danziger, the editor-in-chief of Self magazine and was excited upon learning that she had written this book.  She and Catherine Birndorf really have a winner here!  As I was reading I turned the corners over on pages that inspired me, motivated me, spoke to me.  Flipping back through after reading the book, I realized I had turned over a lot of corners!  What I really loved about "The Nine Rooms of Happiness" is that it took complex issues (work, body image, intimacy, friendship, etc.) and gave the reader a very simple way of examining them.  I loved the metaphor of the house and how each room represents an area of our life.  I loved the personal stories from both authors as well as other women throughout the book.  I loved the "pearls" (a short, to the point summation of how to proceed) at the close of each story.  This book is a quick read and is an inspiration to women everywhere, of every age and every background.  Every woman should read this book and know that finding health, joy and love are all within their reach.  We all deserve those things!

I know we have all heard the saying that sometimes we take ourselves too seriously. If you ever feel that way, then you need to reevaluate the decisions in your life going forward. And to do that you need to learn from the paths you have already chosen. Something that can help you reevaluate your life and feel better about everything is the must read “The Nine Rooms of Happiness”. Basically they help you compartmentalize any self-destructive things you do into 9 Rooms leaving you feeling happier and healthier. They take different people’s problems or successes, analyze the situation and show you how to basically cope either way. We as women put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be perfect in all aspects of our lives. This book helps you look at the issues you are having and realize that you cannot take everything so seriously and how to truly get over it. So if you are feeling in need of a pick-me-up, grab a copy today. You will start feeling better in no time.

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Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life’s Little Imperfections

By Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf, M.D.

Ask a woman how she’s feeling.  Maybe she just landed a major new account, but she’s stressing about the inaccurate charts in her presentation.  Maybe she’s floating home from a fantastic first date, but an analytical play-by-play grounds her.

All too often, women fear their momentary mistakes rather than reveling in their episodes of excellence.  The number of mistakes adds up, gathering mass and force to shake the foundations of even the happiest life.  Unfortunately, this is the way many women think about everything—their love lives, their bank accounts, their family life, their career, and their body image.

Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self, and Catherine Birndorf, a psychiatrist and expert on women’s mental health issues, have teamed up to figure out why it’s all too common for women to be thrown off balance if things are going well in all areas of life except for one.  In their new book, THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life’s Little Imperfections (Voice; December 21, 2010; $14.99; Paperback), they use the simple metaphor of a house to illustrate the central problem: when women should be grateful for what they have in their lives in the room at hand, they are either seeing the room’s imperfections or, worse, worrying about another room.  The book takes women through different parts of their lives (homes), helps them understand their patterns, and gives them new ways of thinking to solve their own problems.

Each room represents a facet of a woman’s life:

- The bedroom is about issues with intimacy—sex, love, desire, and the connection to a partner;

- The bathroom is about issues of health, vanity, body image, weight, and aging;

- The kitchen is about food, nourishment, and cooking; it is also the place to discuss household chores and the division of labor;

- The office/study is about work, career, money, and financial security;

- The living room is about social connections: friendships, neighbors, and social experiences;

- The family room is about family ties, siblings, parents, and other nearest-and-dearest;

- The basement is about memories—childhood, college years, and important life experiences;

- The kid’s room is about parenting issues, including the question of whether or not to have children; and

- The attic is about family expectations, the desire to create one’s own legacy, and other emotional heirlooms.

Danziger and Birndorf evaluated problems that came up in hundreds of interviews with women to find out why a woman’s jubilation or even just self-satisfaction tends to be fleeting, and why the extended periods between those joyful moments are plagued by the inability to appreciate all the good around her.

Does anyone really have it all?  Are new ways of communicating and social media changing habits?  And how can women learn to live with conflict or let go of their own unrealistic expectations that everything has to be perfect at once, and just be happy in the space they’re in?

It’s a universal reality that women are feeling stressed out even when most things in their lives are great. Many women look in the mirror and compare themselves to friends who look ten years younger.  Some feel like failures if they’re having a friend issue, even though they’re happy with their career and husband. Others feel crazed all the time but always want to do more. How can a woman have it all—the family and the job, time for herself and time for others—without feeling like she’s shortchanging herself in any of those areas? 

Filled with testimonials from women, THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS addresses issues relating to women’s sex lives, money issues, in-laws, siblings, friendships, career pressures, and body hang-ups and provides prescriptive advice so readers can tackle their own anxieties, find fulfillment in their lives, and avoid potential pitfalls in the future.  The stories are riveting, the advice accessible, and the pearls of wisdom memorable and useful.   

This book offers insight and strategies for dealing with issues that chip away at happiness—and gives women new ways of thinking to break their old self-destructive patterns. With this book, readers will learn not only how to be happier in every emotional room, but also how to live in the moment and enjoy each room—joyfully accepting, improving and appreciating themselves and their lives.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Lucy Danziger has been editor and chief of Self magazine for more than nine years and gorwn the circulation to nearly seven million monthly readers. As a blogger on Self.com and also for Yahoo Health, writing about how to be healthier and happier in stressful, overly busy times, Danziger has grown a following of hundreds of thousands of online viewers each month. Catherine Birndorf, M.D., is a psychiatrist and the founding director of the Payne Whitney Women’s Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is also a contributing columnist for Self. Both women live and work in New York City.

Check out www.NineRooms.com for author blogs, videos, interviews, and more Happiness advice.

THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS

Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life’s Little Imperfections

By Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf, M.D.

Published by Voice

Publication date: December 21, 2010

Paperback: $14.99 • Page count: 304

ISBN: 978-1-4013-4156-5