Over the course of a decade, positive psychology authority Dr. Beth Cabrera has surveyed and interviewed more than a thousand women to gather insight into how to effectively balance career and family responsibilities. Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-Being gathers essential findings and offers women proven strategies for living more authentic, meaningful lives.
Through the lens of shared experience, Cabrera thoughtfully examines the challenges women face and presents a simple yet powerful model for enhancing well-being that can both improve and transform lives. Helpful self-assessments guide you toward feeling good and doing good, and each chapter delivers tried-and-true tactics that real women have used to manage the difficulties of fulfilling their multiple, often conflicting, roles.
Discover pathways to reducing stress, experiencing greater joy, and finding more meaning in your life by employing Cabrera’s solid strategies for thriving based on personal values, developed strengths, and what matters most–enduring family ties and relationships.
Forget trying to find balance, and focus on what you can actually control– your own well-being! Forget trying to find balance, and focus on what you can actually control– your own well-being! I was so appreciative to have found this book, and I loved every moment of reading it. Dr. Cabrera has obviously done a ton of research and weaves in her own life experience in with her story to supply the reader with a long, yet actionable, list of things that we can do to improve the quality of our life. She covers mindfulness, practicing gratitude, being hopeful, living your values, focusing on…
Too much whining, and not enough action from Cabrera’s book I felt like there was a huge amount of whining about society which is not what I wanted nor expected from this book. I thought it would be more of a “how to” book. The one thing that I did get out of this book is that Cabrera mentions another book, Meditation in a New York Minute, which I purchased and it was super useful and definitely had the “how to” component that I was seeking. I don’t need the negativity and whining about how “life’s not fair to women” as it is…
If you are a woman, know a woman, care about a woman–read this book. Beth Cabrera knows about working women and well-being. She’s a working mother, a psychologist, and a professor who researches and teaches at the #1 Well-Being University in the country: George Mason. There’s no doubt that her book will become a roadmap for working mothers who want to lead a happier, healthier life. She presents a compelling argument why women can’t do it all. She also presents a much better alternative: Well-being. Her formula contains two simple and powerful…