Happiness Is a Good Story

This book uses many personal stories and examples to describe how you can create more happiness in your life through becoming aware of your meaningmaking process. Our personal stories shape our lives. Human beings were designed to create stories, make meaning, and interpret the world we perceive. This ability to make meaning defines our humanity as opposed to animals or plants. Our stories about ourselves and others are the meaning that we have made up to make sense of something that...
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This book uses many personal stories and examples to describe how you can create more happiness in your life through becoming aware of your meaningmaking process. Our personal stories shape our lives. Human beings were designed to create stories, make meaning, and interpret the world we perceive. This ability to make meaning defines our humanity as opposed to animals or plants. Our stories about ourselves and others are the meaning that we have made up to make sense of something that has happened. However, our suffering also lies primarily in the meaning that we have given to what has happened. If we assign the meaning to what happened, then we also are empowered to change the meaning that we create. To regain our empowerment, we have an opportunity to create stories that open up new possibilities, "re‐frame" a situation, or re‐tell our story to ourselves from a different framework. This book provides specific examples for how to transform your meaning‐making process from one that is disempowering to one that empowers you as the hero of your own story.