Amy Newmark - Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life: 101 Stories about Finding a New Path to Happiness

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life

101 Stories about Finding a New Path to Happiness

Amy Newmark, Claire Cook

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Chicken soup for the soul : reboot your life : 101 stories about finding a new path to happiness / [compiled by] Amy Newmark [and] Claire Cook.

pages ; cm

1. Happiness--Literary collections. 2. Happiness--Anecdotes. 3. Self-actualization (Psychology)--Literary collections. 4. Self-actualization (Psychology)--Anecdotes. 5. Anecdotes. I. Newmark, Amy. II. Cook, Claire, 1955- III. Title: Reboot your life

BF575.H27 C45 2014

158.12014943303

101 Stories about Finding a New Path to Happiness

Amy Newmark

Claire Cook

Changing your world one story at a time

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Contents

, Claire Cook

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, Claire Cook

, Dawn A. Marcus

, Kristi Paxton

, David Cranmer

, Sioux Roslawski

, Heather Zuber-Harshman

, P. Avice Carr

, Kathy Whirity

, Peter W. Wood

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, Dean Karnazes

, Shari Hall

, Andrew E. Kaufman

, James C. Magruder

, Roz Warren

, Tanya Feke

, Amy L. Stout

, Sabrina Zackery

, Val Jones

, Shawnelle Eliasen

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, Rebecca Olker

, Kamia Taylor

, Karen Martin

, Arlene Ledbetter

, Sharron Carrns

, Giulietta Nardone

, Tanya Rusheon

, Pat Wahler

, Erin Latimer

, MaryLou Driedger

, Denise Reich

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Amy Newmark

, Lisa Morris

, Brenda Lazzaro Yoder

, Alli Page

, Marijo Herndon

, Robert J. Brake

, Sylvia Ney

, Angela Ogburn

, Jane Lonnqvist

, Jan Bono

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, Jennifer Sky

, Christopher Clark

, Heather Ray

, Patricia Lorenz

, Deborah K. Wood

, Liz Maxwell Forbes

, Lynn Kinnaman

, Jennifer Chauhan

, Kay Thomann

, Sean Marshall

, Katherine Higgs-Coulthard

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Esther Clark

, Jennie Ivey

, Elizabeth Smayda

, B.J. Taylor

Marsha Porter

, Melissa Face

, Lori Lara

, Brian Teason

, Maggi Normile

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, Kamia Taylor

, Theresa Sanders

, Cherie Magnus

, Debra Wallace Forman

, Janet Perez Eckles

, Sara Etgen-Baker

, Jessie Wagoner

, Jeanette Rubin

, Ann Michener Winter

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, Nicole K. Ross

, Kristin Julie Viola

, Stacy Ross

Jaime Schreiner

, Jay H. Berman

, Susan A. Karas

, Tyler Stocks

, Paul Bowling II

, Garrett Bauman

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, Ferida Wolff

, Connie Rosser Riddle

, Christine Burke

, Lisa McManus Lange

, Pam Bailes

, Shannon Kaiser

, Angela Joseph

, Terri Elders

, J.C. Andrew

, Sue Mannering

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, Carol Strazer

, Nancy Julien Kopp

, Eloise Elaine Ernst Schneider

, Dallas Woodburn

, Dorann Weber

, Carol Ayer

, Kathleen Kohler

, Chris Jahrman

, Diana Lynn

, Fallon Kane

, Marilyn Boone

, L.A. Strucke

, Lynn Dove

, Amy Newmark

I m thrilled to be a part of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life. I loved immersing myself in all 101 of the fabulous stories youre about to read, and it was a joy and an honor to be asked to write a story myself.

I was so inspired by these brave and thoughtful men and womenwho all feel like new friends nowand I know youll be inspired by them, too. What struck me most in their stories is that we can bury our dreams for years, even decades, but they still linger beneath the surface and never really go away. I knew this from my own personal experience, but to see it multiplied by one hundred is incredibly powerful.

So, bravo to every one of these contributors, who took long, hard looks at their existing lives, realized they were stuck, and had the courage and the tenacity to change them into the lives theyd dreamed about.

Youll hear about M. Sean Marshalls awesome wife, who helped him celebrate his layoff and turn it into an amazing adventure.

Youll cheer on Kamia Taylor as she fights her way back from homelessness.

Fallon Kane will share the lessons she learned working in a pickle shop.

Youll walk along with Heather Clausen as she gets herself back in shape.