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A Search for the Lost Art of Happiness
By Kerry Cue $24.95
‘At the age of 42 I had life sorted. I had the complete Aussie family package: a house in a leafy suburb, corporate husband, 2 kids, the private school thingy, a career that included speaking engagements, a book contract, columns in 3 newspapers nationally and enough energy left over to play netball. Then the wheels fell off my life. The events that shook my world were not the stuff of newspaper headlines rather a record of the suffering of an ordinary life and it was relentless And so the book begins ‘Certainty ended for me on 2nd March, 1995. I was 42 years old.’
I was a humorist. My first three books, the Ratbag books, were humorous romps about growing up on a small police station in Victoria. Born to Whinge was a comic account of parenting my own children. AS my life fell apart about me I found myself slipping into a pit of misery. Amazingly I could act out the role of being a humorist – I’d done it a thousand times- but I felt nothing. I was numb. Why couldn’t I just say to myself ‘Cheer up’, ‘Don’t worry’ or ‘Relax’ and get on with life? Why didn’t this jolly, hockey-sticks cheerleader talk have any impact on my emotions whatsoever? I set out to find the answers.
Calling on my scientific background I began reviewing studies in psychology, neuroscience, anything. Eventually, using the new science of the brain, I stumbled upon the Language of Emotion, the only language your emotional brain understands and I used it to deal with my chaotic inner world.
In Forgotten Wisdom I’ll show you how to use the language of emotion to sort your own, sometimes jumbled, emotional thinking. Not only does Forgotten Wisdom use this language to provide insight into emotional issues such as love, loss, relationships, self worth, obsession, addiction, exhaustion, choice and much more, it will show you how to understand your emotions and coach them forward.
The language of emotion is simple. You are using these words all the time, but you have forgotten to pay attention to their significance. It is your forgotten wisdom this book seeks to address.
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