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Negatively Ever After

A Skeptic's Guide to Finding Happiness

By Deanna K Willmon
Published by She Writes Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book
Fed up with happiness gurus telling you that you can't be happy unless you get rid of all of your negativity? Sick of all those perky Positive Pollys receiving all the happiness glory? Negatively Ever After will provide the guidance you need to find happiness without the impossible task of eradicating negativity from your life. This book debunks the popular misconception that being positive and being happy are synonymous. Using a simple “Happiness Bank” analogy, the author shares her research, experiences, and missteps in discovering that negativity is not the enemy. From achieving self-adoration and learning what gratitude truly means to determining whether sharing happiness is really a good idea, this book explains how to develop “Negativity Wisdom” in order to embrace and effectively utilize your inherent negative tendencies. Realistic and accessible, Negatively Ever After will help you harness your negativity and find your own inner happiness.

About The Author
Deanna K Willmon

Deanna Willmon graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary social science. A Las Vegas native, she still resides in her hometown with her spouse and two children, both of whom should be finishing their university studies and leaving the nest. Any. Day. Now. Willmon’s professional career has primarily been spent in management and administration, striving to better organize and help make others’ professional lives more tolerable. Her weekends are spent playing board games, reading, writing short stories, and working on her first novel. Despite a (somewhat) irrational fear of the Internet, she can be found on her blog and lurking on most social media sites. She also occasionally creates items for the happy negativist and those who love them in the online store called Slap Happy Sundries.

Product Details
  • Publisher: She Writes Press (September 12, 2017)
  • Length: 256 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781631523137

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Raves and Reviews

2017 USA Best Book Awards Finalist in Self-Help: General “Delving into the anatomy of negativity, dissecting the emotions, personal significance, and social expectations of an often controversial topic, this book encourages you to discover and explore your own negativity, and offers guidance on how to harness and productively use this powerful, and often unrecognizable, emotion. Willmon demonstrates that negativity can have a positive impact on your road to true happiness.”
—Gail Zacok, MSN, RN, FNP-C, Author of The Practical Patient

“Exemplifies how useful negativity serves as a catalyst to improve one's life.”
—Maria Doncaster, PhD, Psychologist

“Negatively Ever After correctly elaborates on the often undervalued virtues of utilizing and analyzing the negativity in your life to establish personal goals and greater inner happiness. One can consider that a pearl starts out as an irritation of sand that the oyster acknowledges by converting the negative irritant, eventually resulting in a luminous pearl.”
—Alice Prem, Psychic Medium and Retired Attorney

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Negatively Ever After

A Skeptic's Guide to Finding Happiness

By Deanna K Willmon
Published by She Writes Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster