After the sudden death of her husband in 2016, expert psychologist and speaker Karen Guggenheim found herself asking life altering questions: Is it possible to overcome pain by learning to be happy? Is it possible to find your own life and sense of fulfilment again? Overwhelmed by suffering, she used her grief as a motivator to look into her life. This journey of post-traumatic growth brought her, among other things, to found one of the most important world events on joy - the World Happiness Summit. Life-affirming and empathic, Cultivating Happiness offers Karen's practical and tangible pathways to well-being. It shows how small actions and daily changes can bring positivity, compassion and serenity into our personal lives and to those around us. Beginning from her experience and giving an account of the principles and research that supported her transformation, this book is evidence that not only can happiness be taught and learned, it also possible to rewrite our stories for a fuller, richer and happier life.
