Lighten Up: Seven Ways To Kick The Suffering Habit,Used

Product Description If you ask yourself When if the last time I felt joyful? and the answer is not today, Lighten Up could open a new door in your life. Lighten Up is not a book for sissies. It takes courage to acknowledge the sadness and losses in our lives, let them go, and reclaim our joy. According to author, Deborah Duda, suffering is the least recognized, most widespread, most pernicious addiction of our time. Part memoir, expose, and guide book, Lighten Up shares practical options and exercises for changing the ideas and behaviors that prevent us from living more lightheartedly. The book focuses on reowning the often deeply hidden energy in us all joy. Because the greatest gift we can give ourselves, our families, our communities, and our world, is to be a profoundly contented person who feels a kinship with all of life, lightening up is the major challenge of a lifetime. Duda is also author of the awardwinning, groundbreaking guide book, Coming Home, a Practical and Compassionate Guide to Caring for a Dying Loved One, first published in 1981, now it its fourth revised and updated edition. From the Author Lighten Up, Seven Ways to Kick the Suffering Habit Book by Deborah Duda 'Joy is the purpose of life,' Dalai Lama A practical guide to increasing the joy in our daily lives by healing the suffering habit. KAUA'I, Hawai'i: Ask yourself, 'When was the last time I felt joyful?' If the answer is not 'Today', reading Lighten Up, Seven Ways to Kick the Suffering Habit will open a door in your life. Part memoir, part expos, Lighten Up is not a book for sissies. It takes courage to acknowledge the sadness and losses in our lives, let them go, and reclaim our joy. Suffering is the least recognized, most widespread, most pernicious addiction of our time, according to the author. We live in a world where angst is prevalent and, for many, even fashionable. Most of humanity believes suffering is inevitable. While feeling emotional pain is unavoidable as we make peace with the oftenprofound changes in our lives, suffering pain prolonged is optional. Lighten Up exposes the severity of the suffering habit and shares practical, and often fun, options for changing our limiting ideas and behaviors so we can live more lightheartedly. 'We are hardwired for bliss, both physical and divine,' concluded Candice Pert, Ph.D., after thirty years of research as a Georgetown University School of Medicine research professor and a National Institute for Mental Health section chief. Lightening up is the greatest gift we can give to our families, our communities, and our world. Being a profoundly contented person who feels a joyful kinship with all of life is the major work of a lifetime. About the Author Deborah Duda, is author of the award winning guide book, Coming Home, a Practical and Compassionate Guide to Caring for a Dying Loved One. Duda has been a US Foreign Service Officer, fashion designer, hospice cofounder, Spanish teacher, coordinator for a FEMA mental health recovery project, and support group facilitator for prisoners in New Mexico and Kaua'i. She currently coordinates an all volunteer grassroots initiative, Kaua'i Share The Care, to help families care for loved ones who need extra help at home without burning out. www.deborahduda.com.