The Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life's Little Imperfections

by Lucy Danziger, Catherine Birndorf, Catherine Birndolf

Book Overview

What Room Are You In? Ask any woman how she's feeling. Even when things look pretty darn great from the outside, chances are that at least one thing (and it may seem minor to others) is nagging at her, making her feel less than spectacular, bringing her down: I'm too fat. My husband doesn't help enough around the house. My friend is going to be mad if I don't call her back. Why don't my kids try harder at school? My job is less than inspiring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140134156X
• ISBN13: 9781401341565
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Loved it!

Recommend this book for any woman who is trying to sort out emotions/values/priorities. And isn't that really all of us? A good friend recommended this & I believe it's a great resource for busy women. Whether you are married, a mom, single, a career person, it doesn't matter - this book will help you be "not so hard on yourself" & learn that we are all navigating the "house" of a busy woman's life.

Excellent book!

This book is amazing! I could so relate to so many of the women of whom told their stories. It made me realize how similar we all are to each other in this life, our thought process and our situations. It helped me to validate the issues I've had in some of my relationships, i.e. my sister and my mother. It has given me an inner peace that I never had before. I am circulating this book to my closest friends, as this will help them with clarity in their rooms as well, and help them to move forward. I know for sure that I can now clean up my basement and live in the moment. I will stop trying to duplicate MY childhood for my children. I will stay in the moment with them and help create their own experiences and memories, and know they will love them just as I did mine.

Fresh and Authentic

I found this book fresh, straight forward and authentic. The authors help you identify issues and offer strategies for dealing with them. The anecdotes make it a fun read, but one that's also serious enough to make it worthwhile. I like the "news you can use" approach to self help, delivered with humor and empathy. This stuff is right on.

Not Therapy, But Pretty Close

I am going through a really hard time and I often have trouble with happiness. And though it will take a lot to get me to the place I should be, reading this book gave me a lot of hope for a better future. While reading, I had a smile on my face and a sense of optimism that I rarely have any other time. It gave me a lot of the tools to start changing how I think and I would recommend it for any woman, period. Plus it is an amazing value, especially since it is hard cover. I would have paid even more for it, and I don't normally say that about anything.

Happy To Be Reading This

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy! This book gets your attention with revealing women's stories (one gives her husband sex daily so that he won't stray and another is overwhelmed with guilt because she has her dream career but is not physically close to her family.) After each "vignette" there is a one act play-like workshop where the experts offer simple strategies to move through the issue and offer simple ways to find some personal resolution. The result: we as the audience confront a little bit our own self especially the parts that may be stuck. We get a little closer to being more honest about who we really are and what we really want through women who share their own stories. "Nine Rooms" explains that balance in the tradition sense is overrated and must be self-defined. Real contentment comes from being able to look at every area of your life--family, friends, work, sex and relationships, and even fitness-- as an opportunity to make peace with the imperfect. Plus the cute little website ([...]) is a lot of fun and I found out when I'm not trapped in the basement, I'm very into making a fuss about my tenth room. ([...])