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The Knack of a Happy Life

The Knack of a Happy Life: Nine Lessons along the Journey
Luleen S. Anderson, Ph.D.,
ISBN 978-0-9789736-3-6
$19.95, trade paperback, 286 pages

A happy life is our choice . . . misery is optional! Clinical psychologist Luleen S. Anderson draws on a lifetime of expertise and her own poignant experiences to show each of us how to make that choice for ourselves.

With compassion, gentle humor, and wisdom, her brief essays guide readers through the major turning points of our lives. Men and women, young and old alike, will find hope, joy, and insight in these delightful pages.


Softcover, $19.95 USD

AUTHOR BIO
Luleen S. Anderson was born in the small farming community of Roberta, Georgia, the eighth of nine children. First in her family to attend college, she earned her A.B. from Wesleyan College, her M.A. from Emory University, and her Ph.D. from Boston University. She practiced clinical psychology for many years in Boston, Mass., and Wilmington, N.C., where she currently lives.

The author of three books and more than eighty articles in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, Dr. Anderson has lectured and taught widely. She is passionate about promoting the potential for transcendent happiness that she has experienced personally, and that she has found in friends and in hundreds of troubled clients. The Knack of a Happy Life brings together new writings with many of her essays and newspaper columns, including dozens from Wilma! Wilmington’s Magazine for Women, to which she has contributed regularly since its inception.

BLURBS

“. . . a comprehensive curriculum in happiness . . . ”
—Peggy Payne, author of Sister India and co-author of The Healing Power of Doing Good

“What a rare combination! Luleen Anderson’s book is as serious of purpose as it is entertaining to read, with nuggets of wisdom on every page.” —Ellyn Bache, author of Holiday Miracles and Safe Passage

“There is great beauty and wisdom in this work.” —author and translator Daniel Ladinsky

“When you come across a sharecropper’s daughter, reared dirt-poor, who got a Ph.D., became a therapist, a published writer—you want to know the secrets of her success. Some of the wisest words are also the most simple, and here are her simple, wise, accessible secrets to the knack of a happy life. Her words will resonate in you long after you put down the book.” —Sophy Burnham, author of A Book of Angels

Also by Luleen S. Anderson, Ph.D.

Sunday Came Early This Week
Fill Me Up to Empty
Under the Covers

Visit Luleen's web site for more information.

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