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HAPPY NEVER AFTER
Why the Happiness Fairy Tale is Driving Us Mad (and How I Learned to Flip the Script)
Jill Stark was living a dream. She had a coveted job as a senior journalist, her love life was flying, and her lifelong ambition of publishing a best-selling book had just become a reality. After years of chasing her fairytale ending she'd finally found it.
But then it all started to fall apart. Getting her happy ever after plunged Jill into the darkest period of her life.
Suffering an emotional breakdown at a time when she was supposed to 'have it all' forced her to ask if she'd been sold a lie. What if all the things we're told will make us happy are red herrings? Could the relentless pursuit of happiness actually be making us miserable?
In a forensic examination of our age of anxiety, Jill explores why in a Western world offering more opportunity, choice, and wealth than ever before, so many of us are struggling to find calm and contentment. With humour, insight, and razor-sharp wit, she sets her own lifetime mental-health battles against the backdrop of a stressed-out, 'always on' modern world that has learned to view sadness and failure as abnormal. But what if the key to contentment is letting go of the happy-ever-after fairytale and rewriting the script?
From the ashes of Jill's epic breakdown comes this raw, funny, and uplifting memoir, documenting a journey from despair to clarity. We're all looking for answers. We all want the happy ever after. What would happen if we stopped chasing, stayed still, and found calm amid the chaos?
Jill Stark is an award-winning journalist and author with a career spanning 18 years in both the UK and Australian media. She spent a decade on staff at The Age covering health and social affairs as a senior writer and columnist and now works as a media consultant and freelance writer contributing to ABC Online, SBS Digital and The Saturday Paper. Her first book, High Sobriety: my year without booze is a best-selling memoir that was long-listed in the Walkley Book of the Year Awards and short-listed in the Kibble Literary Awards.
But then it all started to fall apart. Getting her happy ever after plunged Jill into the darkest period of her life.
Suffering an emotional breakdown at a time when she was supposed to 'have it all' forced her to ask if she'd been sold a lie. What if all the things we're told will make us happy are red herrings? Could the relentless pursuit of happiness actually be making us miserable?
In a forensic examination of our age of anxiety, Jill explores why in a Western world offering more opportunity, choice, and wealth than ever before, so many of us are struggling to find calm and contentment. With humour, insight, and razor-sharp wit, she sets her own lifetime mental-health battles against the backdrop of a stressed-out, 'always on' modern world that has learned to view sadness and failure as abnormal. But what if the key to contentment is letting go of the happy-ever-after fairytale and rewriting the script?
From the ashes of Jill's epic breakdown comes this raw, funny, and uplifting memoir, documenting a journey from despair to clarity. We're all looking for answers. We all want the happy ever after. What would happen if we stopped chasing, stayed still, and found calm amid the chaos?
Jill Stark is an award-winning journalist and author with a career spanning 18 years in both the UK and Australian media. She spent a decade on staff at The Age covering health and social affairs as a senior writer and columnist and now works as a media consultant and freelance writer contributing to ABC Online, SBS Digital and The Saturday Paper. Her first book, High Sobriety: my year without booze is a best-selling memoir that was long-listed in the Walkley Book of the Year Awards and short-listed in the Kibble Literary Awards.
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Published 2018-07-01 by Scribe Publications |