Human Moments: How to Find Meaning and Love in Your Everyday Life

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Where Meaning and Love Abide
Renowned author Edward Hallowell proposes a simple, effective way to find happiness and love in this totally unique guide to living a fulfilling life. Dr. Hallowell teaches us how to recognize and appreciate a 'human moment,' an instance when we recognize

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There is an immense variety to human moments, so much so that it is difficult to define a human moment more precisely than I already have without losing the variety in the process.

Where Meaning and Love Abide : Part 3
Skipper worked in the financial industry, and he took many trips from his home in Newton, Massachusetts to New York, where he would win waltz contests dancing with his daughter (my aunt Duckie) to the music of Guy Lombardo

Human Moments™ is unlike any book available today. Renowned author Edward Hallowell proposes a simple, effective way to find happiness and love in this totally unique guide to living a fulfilling life. Dr. Hallowell teaches us how to recognize and appreciate a "human moment," an instance when we recognize and connect to things that really matter most in life and make it worth living.

An engaging storyteller, Hallowell uses his own personal experiences from a traumatic childhood to a prosperous adulthood to illustrate concepts and connect with readers. Skillfully he teaches us how to recognize human moments when they happen, how to savor them, treasure them, and turn them into an enriching experience. Best of all, he reveals how human moments are happening to us all the time - in fact, every day.

Hallowell forms each chapter around narratives of intensely moving stories from his own life and embellishes them with personal accounts and reflections from others. He concludes each one with suggestions on "creating connections" in our own lives through which we find true meaning and love.

For all those engaged in the ongoing work of personal growth and life enrichment, Human Moments™ is at once poignant and inspiring, uplifting and endearing-an unforgettable book that will awaken hearts and change lives.

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, Massachusetts, an outpatient treatment center serving children and adults with a wide range of emotional and learning problems. He is the co-author of Driven to Distraction and the author of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, and Worry, among other titles.

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