BEYOND HAPPINESS by Dr. Jennifer Guttman

Happiness is a fleeting emotion. It’s watching a child open birthday presents, or seeing the first snowfall of the season. It’s not an enduring state of being we can achieve, and often it’s outside our control. Instead, Dr. Guttman urges us to shift our thinking away from happiness and towards a healthier alternative – satisfaction, a sustainable state of being.

Combining the same personal and professional insights gleaned over thirty years of practice that have brought her YouTube series over two million views, Dr. Guttman’s BEYOND HAPPINESS shares the proven techniques for sustainable life satisfaction:

1. Avoid assumptions – learn to have agency in any situation instead of acting based on what you imagine other people are thinking or feeling about you, reducing our innate negativity bias. 
2. Reduce people pleasing behaviors – don’t default to putting the needs and desires of others ahead of your own. This enables you to live an authentic life.
3. Face your fears – learn to not let your fears prevent you from working toward and achieving your goals, resulting in more self-efficacy and self-respect.
4. Make decisions – take action more easily by recognizing that almost every decision we settle on is, at best, just a well-informed guess, eliminating decision paralysis.
5. Closing – Acknowledge that starting is easy, but closing is hard – following through on what we start, no matter how difficult, will lead to self-confidence, self-efficacy, and self-respect.
6. Active Self-Reinforcement – Reward yourself for consistently executing any of the other five techniques. You will make the cognitive shift from aspiring to gain and needing praise, rewards, and reassurance from others to appreciating the profound value of giving those things to yourself by focusing on self-care.

Jennifer Guttman will be available for interviews around the May 30 release of BEYOND HAPPINESS. Please let us know if you’re interested in an

Advance Praise for BEYOND HAPPINESS

“Dr. Guttman’s book is a game changer. It offers a crystal-clear plan on how to transform everyday patterns and lead a more joyful life.”

– Amy B. Scher, bestselling author of How To Heal Yourself When No One Else Can 

About the Author

Dr. Jennifer Guttman received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University. She began her career working at a family homeless shelter in New York. When she found that traditional protocols made it difficult for people to access her services, she fought to ensure that every resident could meet with her as often as they needed, eagerly working day and night to fulfill requests for services. Motivated by a desire to reach even more people, she started lecturing and opened a private practice. Her approach fuses traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques with her own core methods, which have been developed and refined through thirty-plus years of personal interaction with her clients. The combination of these innovative methods and her unparalleled empathic abilities has enabled her to have a profound impact on thousands of patients from diverse walks of life.