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                                                                     "A book for every woman who has misplaced her happiness."
                                

                              
                                  




                                
contact Kristen Houghton


Visit:
www.andthenillbehappy.com

"Read my new blog, Keys to Happiness
filled with solid tips 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

Read me in
The Huffington Post
                                                                              
                                                                               
published by GPP Life, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press

                                                                                             contact publicist Allyson Coughlin
                                                                                            Allyson.Coughlin@globepequot.com    
                                                                                                         203.458.4646

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 a Lifestyle columnist for The Huffington Post and a featured writer for More Magazine,
Hartford Woman, and Today Magazine.

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 Launch and signing at Barnes and Noble 12/22/09


                                                                                                            





















  Interviews for AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY! :        
    TwoDay Mag.com
    Commitment Magazine
    AOL That's Fit Magazine
  Arizona Republic Quarterly, May, 2010
  Forever Young, Gulfshore Life March, 2010





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