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The Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life's Little Imperfections

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I know my husband and I are in the minority because we don't have kids (and aren't planning to). This book seems to focus a lot on parenting, and as a result it does not interest me. That's a shame, because I think it could be a very interesting subject if it wasn't so skewed in that direction.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy!

This book gets your attention with revealing women's stories (one gives her husband sex daily so that he won't stray and another is overwhelmed with guilt because she has her dream career but is not physically close to her family.) After each "vignette" there is a one act play-like workshop where the experts offer simple strategies to move through the issue and offer simple ways to find some personal resolution. The result: we as the audience confront a little bit our own self especially the parts that may be stuck. We get a little closer to being more honest about who we really are and what we really want through women who share their own stories. "Nine Rooms" explains that balance in the tradition sense is overrated and must be self-defined. Real contentment comes from being able to look at every area of your life--family, friends, work, sex and relationships, and even fitness-- as an opportunity to make peace with the imperfect. Plus the cute little website ([...]) is a lot of fun and I found out when I'm not trapped in the basement, I'm very into making a fuss about my tenth room. ([...])

I am going through a really hard time and I often have trouble with happiness. And though it will take a lot to get me to the place I should be, reading this book gave me a lot of hope for a better future. While reading, I had a smile on my face and a sense of optimism that I rarely have any other time. It gave me a lot of the tools to start changing how I think and I would recommend it for any woman, period. Plus it is an amazing value, especially since it is hard cover. I would have paid even more for it, and I don't normally say that about anything.

I found this book fresh, straight forward and authentic. The authors help you identify issues and offer strategies for dealing with them. The anecdotes make it a fun read, but one that's also serious enough to make it worthwhile. I like the "news you can use" approach to self help, delivered with humor and empathy. This stuff is right on.

Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting over Life's Little Imperfections offers a top pick for any woman with high standards and dissatisfaction in life. It comes from the editor-in-chief of Self Magazine and a women's health psychiatrist and uses the metaphor of a house to discuss friendship, social life, and relationships. Common self-destructive patterns are surveyed in a consideration of how to find passion, purpose and meaning in life.

This is my first self help book that I've read, and it's alright. This book talks about various issues including : family, weight, past, ancestors, money and etc. The authors include stories from other women about their issues and it is a wide variety of issues. That being said, I couldn't really relate to a lot of them and it left something to be desired about the book. I'm not quite finished with it and honestly I'm having a hard time getting through it.

The Nine Rooms of Happiness by Lucy Danziger & Catherine Birndorf, M.D. is the book to kick-start your inner happiness. It could perhaps also inspire you to clean out your actual house, but that isn't necessarily the goal to the book. Find out more about this self-help book in this review.

The Nine Rooms of Happiness is essentially a self-help book that aims to help your inner self deal with all of the clutter that goes on inside yourself emotionally. Lucy Danziger puts it into nine rooms (or actually ten) and uncovers how you can be happier with your life.

This isn't a de-clutter your life book, though that is always a good thing to do too. Instead, you focus on all of the emotional issues that you are being tied down with that aren't letting you move forward to be happy.

Putting your emotions into their own respective "rooms" is a very interesting idea that leads to being able to sort through different areas of your life. Each section about the rooms gives real examples of how you can use these new tools to work through issues.

Overall, The Nine Rooms of Happiness is a helpful book, which is the purpose of it. It will only actually help you if you are ready to change though, so be sure that you are ready to make a change first. I recommend this book to all of us who want a little less stress, and a happier life. That includes pretty much everyone, right?

* Thank you to the publisher of The Nine Rooms of Happiness, Voice, for providing me with a copy of this book for review. All opinions expressed are my own.

This is an awesome read. Really puts things into perspective and gives helpful information to help you overcome and rise above everyday situations women face in our lives. I feel like I can really relate to the author and the other women whose situations are featured in the book. I'm working now to put what I learned by reading this into use in my life. I highly recommend! :)

Recommend this book for any woman who is trying to sort out emotions/values/priorities. And isn't that really all of us? A good friend recommended this & I believe it's a great resource for busy women. Whether you are married, a mom, single, a career person, it doesn't matter - this book will help you be "not so hard on yourself" & learn that we are all navigating the "house" of a busy woman's life.

I can relate to so much of what Catherine says. Most of her comments make alot of sense-common sense. If you a willing to make a difference in your life rather than being stuck in sadness, anger and low self-esteem, this book might help you take those baby steps to a better life.