The Creativity Cure: How to Build Happiness with Your Own Two Hands

A Do-It-Yourself Prescription for HappinessIn 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 Cure—Insight Movement Mind Rest Your Own Two Hands and Mind Shift—leads 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 experience—and learn how to sustain—the 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.

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Scribner (August 6 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1451636792

ISBN-13: 978-1451636796

Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces