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The Happiness Project: Week Two

By Merely Me Health Expert

Photobucket(Drawing by my son Max)

 

 

The Happiness Project

 

Take one depressed person...me

Implement one suggestion from a self help book each week

See what happens

 

Can one unmedicated and therapy-less woman find the secret to happiness from the words of self-help gurus?  Let's find out! 

 

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Week Number Two:  August 21, 2009

 

I am already violating my own rules.  I am looking not to a self-help book this week for wisdom, but to the movies.  Watched "W...

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