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Excerpt from GETTING MY BOUNCE BACK: Hardwiring happiness
Excerpt from GETTING MY BOUNCE BACK: Hardwiring happiness

Once you train yourself to consciously absorb the positive experience or to tell yourself you are absorbing the positive experience, the payoff is you’ll begin to create new neural connections that transform passing mental states, such as feeling cheerful, into lasting neural traits, i.e., being a cheerful person.

Maybe this is what happens subconsciously to people who live amid incredible natural beauty. I suspected this when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I’m wondering if this is what is happening in Jamaica.

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Health, Exercise, Jamaica, Memoir, Personal Growth, Self-Help, Wellness, HappinessCarolee Walkergetting my bounce back, happiness, exercise, Jamaica, fitness, wellnessComment
When helping yourself means reaching out to others for help
When helping yourself means reaching out to others for help

“How would you feel about categorizing your book as self-help or personal growth?”

I was having a telephone conversation with an editor at a publishing house about my memoir. I had finished the manuscript in August and had been pitching the project to literary agents and publishers, taking online workshops on how to publish a book, and tweaking the pages based on feedback from readers.

I was never sure whether it was a good idea to call my book a memoir. I’m always visiting bookstores to look at what’s on the memoir shelf or the self-help, psychology, or personal growth shelves, so I get why she was asking the question.

It’s my fitness journey, that’s true, but I wouldn’t say fitness defines me.

“Sure,” I said, “I’m good with that.”

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Exercise, Fitness, Health, Memoir, Personal Growth, Self-HelpCarolee Walkerself-help, memoir, Health, Fitness, feeling good, exercise, writing, confidenceComment