Happy Never After: why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad (and how i flipped the script)

Getting her happy-ever-after plunged Jill into the darkest period of her life forcing her to ask if she?d been sold a lie. What if all the things that she?d been told would make her happy were red herrings? Could it be that the relentless pursuit of happiness was making her miserable? From the ashes of Jill?s epic breakdown comes this raw funny and uplifting exploration of our age of anxiety. Charting her own life-long battles with mental-health problems Jill asks why in a western world with more opportunity choice and wealth than ever before so many of us are depressed anxious and medicated. When we?ve never had more ways to connect why do we feel so profoundly disconnected? Happy Never After is a soul-searching journey from despair to clarity and a forensic examination of our troubled times. Road-testing neuroscience?s latest psychological frontiers in compassion acceptance gratitude play hope and solitude Jill turns the happiness fairytale on its head and swaps the ?quick fix? approach to mental ill health for the long road back to herself. In the end Jill has a hard-earned question for us. We?re all looking for answers. We all want the happy-ever-after. What would happen if we stopped chasing stayed still and found calm and meaning in places we least expected?

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Scribe US; US edition edition (April 2 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 194753470X

ISBN-13: 978-1947534704

Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces