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


                                         
                                             




                                           
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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




                                                                            published by GPP Life, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press

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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


                                                                                                                       



























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