Posts tagged getting my bounce back
I'm in the race, but I already won

Here it is March 7 and TWO years since I published Getting My Bounce Back. Seriously. What a whirlwind. I spent the better part of 2017-18 pulling the book together, getting an agent, and landing a publishing contract. Other first-time authors report the experience can be overwhelming but also thrilling, and I’d say it’s been exactly like that for me.

So where am I with all this? Especially since you haven’t heard much from me lately.

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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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