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The Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life's Little Imperfections Hardcover – March 2, 2010

by Lucy Danziger (Author), Catherine Birndorf (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
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What Room Are You In

Ask any woman how she's feeling. Even when things look pretty darn great from the outside, chances are that at least one thing (and it may seem minor to others) is nagging at her, making her feel less than spectacular, bringing her down: I'm too fat. My husband doesn't help enough around the house. My friend is going to be mad if I don't call her back. Why don't my kids try harder at school? My job is less than inspiring. Whatever happened to that old boyfriend, the one who got away?

Whether it's the size of our thighs or our bank accounts, there always seems to be something that isn't measuring up to our high standards--and we let the dissatisfaction spill over into other areas of our lives, distracting us from taking pleasure in everything that's going right.

In The Nine Rooms of Happiness, Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self magazine, and women's-health psychiatrist Catherine Birndorf use the metaphor of a house to release us from this phenomenon. In this house, the living room is where we deal with friendships and our social life; the bedroom is where we explore intimacy, romance, relationships, and sex; the bathroom is for issues relating to health and body image; the kitchen is for nourishment and the division of chores; and so on.

Our "inner house" can have eight beautifully designed, neat and tidy rooms, and one messy one, and still we focus on the mess.

The Nine Rooms of Happiness pinpoints common self-destructive patterns of behavior and offers key processes that will help readers clean up their emotional architecture. After each room is "clean," Danziger and Birndorf show us how we can spend time on ourselves figuring out what is most meaningful to us--finding larger passion and purpose that makes returning to the rest of our house a pleasure, no matter what calamity or mess awaits.

The result After reading this book you'll think differently about the things that are bringing you down and be able to live a happier, more joy filled life, in every room of your emotional house.

From the outside, you'd think I have it all: beautiful house, wonderful children, devoted husband. But am I happy I think so. There's nothing that has gone terribly wrong. There's no reason for me not to be happy. But I don't feel happy so much as I feel I'm just going through the motions. Sometimes I have the feeling that there's more and I just haven't found it yet. But what . . . and how dare I want more Isn't all that I have enough
--from The Nine Rooms of Happiness

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Lucy Danziger has been Editor-in-Chief of SELF magazine for six years and has a total readership of 5.4 million. She appears regularly on Good Morning America, Today, and the CBS Early Show.

Dr. Catherine Birndorf is a psychiatrist and is Program Director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program. She has appeared on Today, The CBS Evening News, CNN, and MSNBC. She is a contributing columnist for SELF magazine.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1401323359
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voice (March 2, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781401323356
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401323356
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 9.25 inches
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Lucy Danziger has been editor in chief of Self magazine for more than eight years and has grown the circulation to over 6 million monthly readers. Catherine Birndorf, M.D., is a psychiatrist and the founding director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is also a contributing columnist for Self. Both women live in New York City.

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  • Aunt Ro
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2010
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    This book is amazing! I could so relate to so many of the women of whom told their stories. It made me realize how similar we all are to each other in this life, our thought process and our situations. It helped me to validate the issues I've had in some of my relationships, i.e. my sister and my mother. It has given me an inner peace that I never had before. I am circulating this book to my closest friends, as this will help them with clarity in their rooms as well, and help them to move forward. I know for sure that I can now clean up my basement and live in the moment. I will stop trying to duplicate MY childhood for my children. I will stay in the moment with them and help create their own experiences and memories, and know they will love them just as I did mine.
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  • M. Funderburk
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ah ha moments
    Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2012
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    Putting things in perspective of things everyone can relate to made perfect sense. This book points no fingers but helps the reader to get a new perspective of some of life age old problems that seem to get us caught up in our own space. Lets you know you are not alone and that even if there is a problem there are ways of working through them.
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  • bherold
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2010
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    This is an awesome read. Really puts things into perspective and gives helpful information to help you overcome and rise above everyday situations women face in our lives. I feel like I can really relate to the author and the other women whose situations are featured in the book. I'm working now to put what I learned by reading this into use in my life. I highly recommend! :)
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  • Ash
    3.0 out of 5 stars Adequate
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2011
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    This is my first self help book that I've read, and it's alright. This book talks about various issues including : family, weight, past, ancestors, money and etc. The authors include stories from other women about their issues and it is a wide variety of issues. That being said, I couldn't really relate to a lot of them and it left something to be desired about the book. I'm not quite finished with it and honestly I'm having a hard time getting through it.
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  • Monica B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
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  • Sara E. Abalos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not Therapy, But Pretty Close
    Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2010
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    I am going through a really hard time and I often have trouble with happiness. And though it will take a lot to get me to the place I should be, reading this book gave me a lot of hope for a better future. While reading, I had a smile on my face and a sense of optimism that I rarely have any other time. It gave me a lot of the tools to start changing how I think and I would recommend it for any woman, period. Plus it is an amazing value, especially since it is hard cover. I would have paid even more for it, and I don't normally say that about anything.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars wow
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2011
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    I ordered this book used and it came to me like it was new!! Took a while for it to get to me, but I was impressed to see how nice it was. Plus it was a great book! I would recommend this book and of course buy it used!
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  • MJW
    5.0 out of 5 stars The nine rooms of happiness
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    As a professional in the field of psycotherapy, I found this book to be quite helpful in understanding that how we feel comes from deep layers of experinces from our life. The writters have demonstrated this by building a house full of rooms. Each room tells us a part of our history. In understanding the details, we learn how to box up the part of our life experience that keeps us in a dungen and move to feeling in control of our lives and our happiness. The book has been written in such a way that we can understand that who we are and how we react to life, comes from how life has impacted us. But it also helps us to be our own caretaker and not inprisoned by the past.
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