Is everyone happier than me?: an honest guide to the questions that keep you up at night
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The point where you feel like your life is unraveling can actually be a place of unimaginable growth--an awakening--if you're willing to ask yourself a few simple questions.
In an age where everyone else's successes are flaunted in front of you on social media, it can be a struggle to feel true happiness and contentment exactly where you are. Throw in difficult circumstances--loss, heartbreak, change, midlife--and it's easy to understand why you feel lonely, lost, unsure of yourself, stuck, and, if you're honest with yourself, flat-out unhappy.
Is Everyone Happier Than Me? provides practical and relatable answers to the questions you've probably already been asking about your life, and poses a few more, to help you figure out what's standing in the way of your happiness, peace, and connection. Author, podcaster, and midlife mom Sarah Bragg is a trustworthy comrade for the journey as she shares the valuable lessons she's learned in her own hard seasons to help you:
- Identify the unhealthy habits you do when you feel unhappy and how to overcome them
- Discover simple ways to find peace even in the murky middle of hard seasons
- Find new ways to connect with others and yourself
- Embrace exactly where you are even as you try to move forward
It's time to let go of the ideal of a perfect life and allow yourself to be a work in progress. And there's no better time to find happiness than right here in the middle.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
In this compassionate outing, Surviving Sarah podcaster Bragg (A Mother's Guide to Raising Herself) tackles "the hard questions" of purpose, faith, and identity that arise in midlife. Routinely kept awake at night as a busy 40-something mom by a "Rolodex of fears," Bragg would ruminate on her relationship with Christ, her tendency to compare herself to others on social media, and her feeling of being "stuck" in her fitness and personal goals. Eventually she realized that "happiness comes down to connection," and she began seeking ways to foster her relationships with other people, from reaching out to acquaintances for coffee dates to taking a four-month-long hiatus from social media (which she contends promotes comparison, not connection). Not all of Bragg's practices stuck, and not all will suit each reader ("Happiness doesn't look the same to everyone," Bragg acknowledges), but her assertion that "we're all a work in progress" resonates, as do her candid meditations about how her faith has benefited by being challenged and tested throughout her life. This frank and chatty offering will go a long way toward helping believers feel less alone. Agent: Mike Salisbury, Yates & Yates. (Mar.)
Publishers Weekly Reviews
In this compassionate outing, Surviving Sarah podcaster Bragg (A Mother's Guide to Raising Herself) tackles "the hard questions" of purpose, faith, and identity that arise in midlife. Routinely kept awake at night as a busy 40-something mom by a "Rolodex of fears," Bragg would ruminate on her relationship with Christ, her tendency to compare herself to others on social media, and her feeling of being "stuck" in her fitness and personal goals. Eventually she realized that "happiness comes down to connection," and she began seeking ways to foster her relationships with other people, from reaching out to acquaintances for coffee dates to taking a four-month-long hiatus from social media (which she contends promotes comparison, not connection). Not all of Bragg's practices stuck, and not all will suit each reader ("Happiness doesn't look the same to everyone," Bragg acknowledges), but her assertion that "we're all a work in progress" resonates, as do her candid meditations about how her faith has benefited by being challenged and tested throughout her life. This frank and chatty offering will go a long way toward helping believers feel less alone. Agent: Mike Salisbury, Yates & Yates. (Mar.)
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