Happiness Trap How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: a Guide to ACT

Name: Happiness Trap How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: a Guide to ACT
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ISBN: 9781590305843

ISBN-10: 1590305841

ISBN-13: 9781590305843

Edition: 2008

Authors: Russ Harris, Steven C. Hayes

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What if almost everything you believed about finding happiness turned out to be inaccurate and misleading? What if those very beliefs were in fact making you miserable? Too many of us are caught in the happiness trap: we think that we should be happy all or most of the time, and we believe that we can control the circumstances of our lives in order to avoid unpleasant experiences. In reality, every life is touched by disappointment and difficulty. Ironically, it is our fear of negative experiences that keeps us trapped in cycles of unhappiness. Based on the insights and techniques of a new form of psychotherapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Harris offers key principles…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Russ Harris is a medical practitioner, psychotherapist, and executive coach. He is author of ACT Made Simple, ACT with Love, The Reality Slap, The Confidence Gap, Getting Unstuck in ACT, and the international bestseller The Happiness Trap. He is also a world-renowned trainer in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). He lives and practices in Melbourne, Australia.



Foreword


Introduction: I Just Want to Be Happy!



How You Set the Happiness Trap



Fairy Tales



Vicious Cycles



Transforming Your Inner World



The Six Core Principles of ACT



The Great Storyteller



True Blues



Troubleshooting Defusion



Look Who's Talking



Scary Pictures



Demons on the Boat



How Do You Feel?



The Struggle Switch



How the Struggle Switch Developed



Staring Down Demons



Troubleshooting Expansion



Urge Surfing



Back to the Demons



The Time Machine



The Dirty Dog



A Confusing Word



If You're Breathing, You're Alive



Tell It Like It Is



The Big Story



You're Not Who You Think You Are



Creating a Life Worth Living



Follow Your Heart



The Big Question



Troubleshooting Values



The Thousand-Mile Journey



Finding Fulfillment



A Life of Plenty



Facing FEAR



Willingness



Onward and Upward



A Meaningful Life


Acknowledgments


Suggestions for Crisis Times


Further Readings and Resources


Index


About the Author