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In seven simple steps, Uncovering Happiness uses cutting-edge mindfulness and self-compassion techniques along with innovations in neuroscience to help you combat depression and take back control of your mind, your mood, and your life.Most of us believe when we're depressed that our situation is hopeless. That's a mistake. Dr. Elisha Goldstein reassures us that the secret to overcoming depression is in harnessing our brain's own natural antidepressant power to create a more resilient mind. Uncovering Happiness is grounded in two key foundations: mindfulness, which research shows reduces the risk of relapse and can be a powerful alternative to medication, and self-compassion, a state of mind in which you understand your own suffering with an inclination to support yourself.
About the Author
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is cofounder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles. He is author of Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, The Now Effect: How this Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life, Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious Traveler and co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn and MBSR Everyday: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
He has designed the award winning Mindfulness at Work program for eMindful.com and co-developed the CALM (Connecting Adolescents to Learning Mindfulness) program for teens with his wife Dr. Stefanie Goldstein. He has also designed the bestselling program Basics in Mindfulness Meditation: A 28 Day Program.
His previous popular CDs include Mindful Solutions for Stress, Anxiety and Depression, Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention, Mindful Solutions for Success and Stress Reduction at Work, and Mindful Solutions for Adults with ADD/ADHD. He is author of the popular blog Mindfulness and Psychotherapy on Psychcentral.com, and writes for the Huffington Post and Mentalhelp.net. He has also designed the 12-Week program Mindfulness at Work that is currently being run in many multinational corporations.
He synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. He contends that we have the power to transform our traumas and habitual patterns that keep us stuck in perpetual cycles of stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction and step into greater freedom and peace. He offers practical strategies to calm our anxious minds, transform negative emotions, and facilitate greater self acceptance, freedom and inner peace
Dr. Goldstein, who comes from a family of psychologists, advocates that mental health comes from an approach that looks at all aspects of the self - physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual.
As a licensed Psychologist, he teaches mindfulness-based programs in his own practice and through InsightLA. He has spoken at the UCLA Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Conference headlining Thich Nhat Hanh, Daniel Siegel, and Jack Kornfield, the Psychotherapy Networker, FACES conference, the University of Washington with Dr. Alan Marlatt, the UCLA Semel Institute and Anxiety Disorder Clinic, among others. He has been published in The Journal of Clinical Psychology and quoted in the New York Daily News, Reuters, NPR, UCLA Today, Beliefnet.com and The Week Magazine.
