Instructions for Your Discontent: How Bad Times Can Make Life Better (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Sarah Ban Breathnach (Foreword) "RESTLESSNESS is your first clue..." (more)
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Restlessness is your first clue. Discontent can creep into your life, making you feel uncomfortable, as if sitting too long in a cramped space. It can make you grumpy and put you in a bad mood. It can dampen your spirit and make you feel sluggish, dissociated, and disinterested. Yet you can use it to change your life.

Instructions for Your Discontent is an inspiring guide to making discontent the driving force for change in your life. A practical handbook for using bad times to make life better, Instructions for Your Discontent deals with the feeling that we all have from time to time: something is wrong, but we don't know quite what it is. Supportive and refreshingly honest, Barrie Dolnick, author of the extremely successful Simple Spells books, identifies that feeling as discontent and urges us to respect it, rather than ignore it. Discontent is an intensely creative state, she says. It nags and pokes us to get ourselves going and to accomplish what we really want in life. It's trying to tell us something and we need to listen.

Covering all aspects of life, Instructions for Your Discontent explores relationships, love, jobs, money, family, self-worth, anger, and time. This captivating and thought-provoking book provides creative and sensible instructions to guide you through the challenges, anxieties, and fears that interrupt your life and cause you unhappiness. Instructions for Your Discontent offers accessible, intelligent advice for weeding through the downers and moving beyond a life that is just okay. Enjoy examining your discontent and being happy again.

About the Author

Barrie Dolnick is the author of several books, including Sexual Bewitchery and How to Write a Love Letter. She is also a high-profile consultant whose company, Executive Mystic Services, uses alternative information techniques, including tarot cards, astrology, and meditation, to guide clients to fulfill their potential. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Scribner (April 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743214420
• ISBN-13: 978-0743214421
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,109,527 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars NOT written by Sarah Ban Breathnach, March 29, 2006

By	H. Staiger (PA.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Instructions for Your Discontent: How Bad Times Can Make Life Better (Hardcover)

I ordered this book thinking it was written by Sarah BB -AND- Barrie Dolnick as indicated on the top of the amazon page. When the book arrived today I find that Sarah contributed TWO pages only. Disappointing. I love Sarah's books. I am keeping it anyway since it is a bargain book but amazon really should change their page.