The Joy Plan: How I Took 30 Days to Stop Worrying, Quit Complaining, and Find Ridiculous Happiness

The results were astonishing-and lasted much longer than the initial monthlong project.In this uplifting and eye-opening memoir, Kaia uses her business savvy to create a concrete Joy Plan to get back on her feet fast. Determined to turn her life around and put her ingrained habits of stress and anxiety behind her, Kaia decided to put everything else on hold and dedicate thirty days to the singular pursuit of joy. But when her biggest plan, the business she cofounded, collapsed, Kaia found herself crushed by depression. Using scientific research on hormones, neurotransmitters, and mindfulness, along with the daily dedication to creating a more joyful existence, Kaia teaches readers how to move past temporary happiness and succeed in creating joy that lasts. As a mother, a wife, and a businesswoman, Kaia Roman always had a plan. Complete with advice, exercises, and key takeaways, The Joy Plan is Kaia's step-by-step guide to how she, and everyone else, can ditch the negative and plan for the joy in their lives.. And what felt even worse was that, with a husband and two kids relying on her to get out of bed, she didn't have a plan to move forward

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"Life-saving. Part memoir, part universally applicable joy-strategy, The Joy Plan tells the author's story of suffering and lays out, step-by-step, the process that helped her experience much more happiness. Whenever fear, worry, anxiety, or negativity grip me, I simply openThe Joy Plan. That is the most accurate description of The Joy Plan.  Follow the steps in this book and watch how joy-the spiritual dimension of happiness-blossoms in your life. Waiting to shed light into my darkness is a strategy, an inspiring anecdote, or well-researched fact with the power to bring me back to hope, peace, and positivity. The Joy Plan is much more than one woman's journey from rock bottom; it is a universal lifeline for reviving the world's long-lost joy." - Rachel Macy Stafford, New York Times best selling author and founder of Hands

She is currently a Mindfulness Teacher for elementary school students and a regular contributor to numerous mindfulness, happiness, and wellbeing blogs. Kaia Roman has a twenty-year background in public relations and marketing. . She lives in Santa Cruz, CA