Snag How To Be Happy (Or At Least Less Sad): A Creative Workbook Fabricated By Lee Crutchley Distributed As Volume

book is a wonderful tool for this with depression to help identify what triggers them to feel down, as well as set activities and mind sets to help pull oneself back out.
It contains pages of prompts and thought evoking answers for the reader to answer, For example, one page says "List things you do every day that give you no pleasure, Cross out anything nonessential. " The next exercise "List thugs that's you do every day that give you pleasure, Circle anything onessential. " When I went through the prompts I answered them in a separate journal so that I can always go through and redo them, or lend it to a friend in need.
This book definitely brings out my creative side, I love busting out mypack of gel pens and working on one page each day! Really helped when I was blue, Especially asking friends to write a sentence about me, Wow. A simple guidance for a complicated mind of mine, Author and illustrator Lee Crutchley brings his lively interactive approach to a littlediscussed but very common issue: the struggle with depression and anxiety,
 
Through a series of supportive, surprising, and engaging prompts, HOW TO BE HAPPY OR AT LEAST LESS SAD helps readers see things in a new light, and rediscover simple pleasures and everyday joyor at least feel a little less sad.
By turns a workbook, trusted friend, creative outlet, security blanket, and secret diary, the pages of this book will offer solace, distraction, engagement, a fresh perspective, and hopeful new beginningsfor readers of all ages and walks of life.
This book never claims that it will heal you, It doesn't say it will change your life, It doesn't. That's okay.
But it does help you figure out how some of your thought processes might be harmful, proves to you how they are wrong and helps you work on yourself.
There are a lot of exercises in this, Sometimes they are fun like imagining what kind of animal you would be and stuff like that and sometimes they don't really work, Like the one with the tv show schedule you are only allowed to watch one episode of one show everyday and since I'm a tv show addict, this really didn't work.
I tried though! The one that I didn't want to do was listening to an album you hate for a whole day

that would be a hell of a way to ruin my day.
But I get where he's coming from with those exercises, they were just not for me,
The one I loved was where you have to write down how you thinkof your friends would describe you and then ask them how they actually would.
My friends might me cry with their love, It's nice to know that you have people that love you,
This book is a lot about getting to know yourself but that can be kind of exhausting, I think that's okay though,
Overall, it was a good book takes time but it's worth it, I'll definitely work on another one by Lee Crutchley, When I received this book I had no idea what it was, I hadnt ordered any books recently and it appeared in my mail and am I glad it did! I spent some time thinking about this wonderful new magic of books randomly appearing on my doorstep, thanks sitelinkPerigee, I then flipped through the book and knew this would be great.
Perigee sent this to me in return for my honest opinion and I received no compensation for it,

After figuring out where it came from, I spent a few more minutes having an internal crisis over whether I should blog about it, I mean is it a book Is it a workbook Its both, Then, I remembered Ive written about much sitelinkshorter works, and loose collections of words I sitelinkwouldnt even deign to call a book so why shouldnt I post about it Add in that May is Mental Health month and SelfDiscovery month who knew! and Mayis National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week and this is the perfect time to have read it and to blog about it.
But the best news for YOU, dear reader, is that the book comes out tomorrow, Mayth, so you should most definitely go out and get a copy!

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a solidly CBTbased workbook, i recognized many activities from my therapy and positive psychology studies and my personal therapy sessions, nothing groundbreaking, but probably great to pair with talk therapy or do before or after seeking therapy, Great little book with writing prompts to aid with the recovery from depression, I enjoyed the majority of this book and replicated many of the pages in my own journal, I do think that the CBT thought distortion section is a little offensive to INFJ personality types, such as myself, but the author is not a psychologist and states that fact outright.

Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone looking to reflect on their own feelings and thoughts, not just to someone coping with depression, makes you pauze and think in a more positive way,
I would have liked more background information or explanation but I get it's a workbook,
A great book to reach for when you're feeling down and stuck in that mood, I love how this isn't just a personal memoir/instruction manual for how to be happier but also, it includes activities! It's short, sweet and worth it.
Nothing preachy and no “secrets to life” Im in, Total super! Liebevoll gestaltet, aufmunternd, macht Mut! As much as i dislike self help books, this really did not feel like one, a nice reminder and something to come back to every once in a while, I haven't technically finished this book as it is something I turn to when I'm having a particularly low moment in my fight with depression, However I find that this book is wonderful in helping me discover the little things that keep me going, The title is right, it's not how to be happy, It's how to be less sad, Depression isn't something that goes away, you learn to cope with it and this is a great thing to cope with, Thefingers listing what you appreciate everyday but sometimes forget about is a wonderful thing for me, I frequently forget how lucky I am to have my ten items/people,

I recommend this to anyone having problems with their depression or anyone who just needs a little nudge in the direction back to being happy.
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