| Press Kit "A book for every woman who has misplaced her happiness." contact Kristen Houghton Visit: www.andthenillbehappy.com "You'll be able to read my weekly blog, the And Then I'll Be Happyfilled with solid keys showing you how to achieve your own personal happiness. This is a site for every woman who has sabotaged or misplaced her own happiness. Learn how to live your life successfully on your own terms." Kristen Houghton published by GPP Life, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press order here Do you suffer from what author Kristen Houghton calls "The Goldilocks Syndrome?"™ This is the belief that in order for you to be happy, everything, including the wants and needs of others in your life must be "just right." Women especially seem to place their happiness in the future when everything will be "perfect." They can't be happy until... "When my relationship is happy, when I have more money, when I'm successful, when my kids have all the best in life, when I'm finally thin enough; etc., etc.., then I'll be happy!" Women wait for the perfect time to be happy! Kristen's exciting new book,. . .AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY! addresses the major mind-sets that keep women from truly being happy. With a foreword and endorsement by Dr. Janet Taylor, prominent NYC psychiatrist and "Today Show" correspondent, this book is for anyone who’s ever sacrificed her own happiness trying to make someone else happy . . . who’s assigned her happiness, one more time, to some future date “in a galaxy far, far away.” It’s no big deal, happiness can wait, right? Wrong! It doesn’t have to wait. With "...And Then I’ll Be Happy!", Kristen Houghton, a former saboteur of her own happiness, gives women the tools they need to shake off the unhappiness epidemic. In a beguiling blend of practical advice and humor, she debunks the myths about how and when women find happiness. Houghton presents true stories of women who put their happiness on hold for different reasons, provides tips on what readers can do to avoid a similar problem, and identifies the major mindsets that keep women from happiness. True stories and practical advice for women about how to feel better today. With this book, women everywhere—whether in the midst of their careers, choosing to be stay-at-home moms, or caring for aging parents—can put their happiness right where it belongs: in the present. Excerpt from book A Note from Kristen on, "...AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY!" "Like Goldilocks, many women can't be happy until everything in our lives is "just right." We place the date for happiness "somewhere in the future" and by doing that, we waste the present. I think you will find all of the true stories in my book as self-revealing and heartfelt as I do. Many women, including me, suffer from the "Goldilocks" syndrome and, because we do, we unwittingly sabotage our own chances for happiness. As a relationship writer and speaker, I am very excited about my new book, ...AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY! Addressing the "conditions" you think you need in order to be happy, my book helps you identify the real reasons you place your own happiness completely last on your exhaustive to-do list. There are crucial keys to help you understand why your state of happiness should never be "conditional" for any reason. You learn that you are the only one who can give yourself 'permission' to be happy right now. It is a refreshing wake-up call for any woman who has ever put her own happiness on hold." Kristen Houghton is the nationally syndicated “Relationships” columnist for The Examiner Newsmagazine and a featured writer for Salon Magazine and More Magazine. She is a frequent commentator for The Huffington Post As an award-winning writer her work has been called, "fresh, insightful, sharp, and sexy-funny!" by New Writers Guild Kristen Houghton is represented by Stacey Glick sglick@dystel.com Dystel & Goderich Literary Management One Union Square Suite 904 New York, NY 10003 212-627-9100x22 Book signing at Barnes and Noble 12/22/09 Home Page About Kristen Book Information Articles Media and Links Calendar Publicity Photos Contact Info Copyright ©2010 ...AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY! by Kristen Houghton. All rights reserved. Copyright Laws and Penalties apply. ©2010 Official Web Site of Author Kristen Houghton. All articles and stories on this site are written by Kristen Houghton and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed, wholly or in any part, without the express written permission of Kristen Houghton. Copyright additionally protects all material written by this author under the name CK Houghton Literary Web Site created by: ©2009 Wordsmith, LLC. Advocate for the following charities: Sacred Jude, Thanks and Giving North Shore Animal League - A No Kill Shelter Broadway Cares Broadway Barks |
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