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"I just want to be happy," a simple goal expressed as though it were the very least we could expect of life. Some phrase it differently, and some attach requirement or specifics to the statement by pre-deciding how happiness must be packaged. Nonetheless it sounds so reasonable an expectation and yet for some reason so many people spend an entire lifetime unable to reach or even discover the first step on the path to this universal desire. Many believe that this illusive state would be possible if they could only win the lottery, inherit great wealth....

When her son was three, Brooke Boland was diagnosed with depression. She went back to find where it all started–the panic attacks, the dissociation–in the early days of motherhood. When she found it difficult to read or write. In this wide-ranging collection of essays Boland moves on from the person she was and writes to understand who she is now. She swims with sharks, falls in love with a rabbit, and watches her father fight for his life. She is a newcomer in a small regional town and a mother, but what else?

Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only certain products that were evil-free, glimmers of her mother’s future paranoia grew brighter as Laura’s early years passed. Once her husband left the family and filed for divorce, Sally’s symptoms bloomed in earnest, and the three girls united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother had taught them in order to deflect danger.

The answer is not money, fast cars or luxury mansions. The answer is happiness. Most people acknowledge that money is not everything and admit it is possible to be wealthy and still desperately unhappy. We fruitlessly try to create happiness by buying more stuff, by progressing at work, and even through drugs, sex, and other vices. The road map to true life-ong peace, happiness and purpose is closer and more accessible than you have ever dreamed.

With the rate of divorce reaching epidemic proportions, one wonders what needs to be done to stem this negative flow and see a decrease in future statistics. Whilst this urgent work must be done by all concerned, we must go back to take a hard look at men and women within existing marriages. Questions must be answered as to how both parties are actually behaving within marriage; whether they have truly embraced God’s perception (since he is the one that instituted marriage) and then see what must be corrected.