The Creativity Cure: A Do-It-Yourself Prescription for Happiness

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From a premiere hand surgeon and an accomplished psychiatrist comes an innovative highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into creative potential. A Do -It-Yourself Prescription Happiness In their insightful book wife-and-husband physicians Carrie and Alton Barron present an innovative highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into creative potential. A gifted psychiatrist and a premier hand surgeon Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research a combined forty years of medical practice and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity CureInsight Movement Mind Rest Your Own Two Hands and Mind Shiftleads the way to a more meaningful fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness and linking internal thought to external action readers will build the mind-set and habits necessary for happiness and positive change. They will experienceand learn how to sustainthe deep satisfaction that accompanies creating something by hand. The perfect self-help book for our handmade homemade crafting culture The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands.