Curated resources that complement The Happiness Trap (Second Edition): How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by deepening Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills and practical application. These picks support values-based living, self-compas...
Core text for readers seeking an updated, expanded guide to ACT-based tools for stress, anxiety, and low mood. This edition adds material on self-compassion, loneliness, grief, trauma, and habits like perfectionism and people-pleasing, while strength...
The Happiness Trap (2nd Ed): How to Stop Struggling
Designed for readers who want bite-sized, daily practice that reinforces concepts from The Happiness Trap. Each of the 50 cards offers an ACT-based prompt, reflection, or strategy to handle anxiety, insecurity, and difficult emotions while moving tow...
The Happiness Trap Cards - Shambhala Publications
Great for visual learners or those who find dense self-help books hard to finish. This profusely illustrated companion makes ACT principles and the ‘happiness trap’ idea easy to grasp through cartoons and simple explanations, while following the same...
The Illustrated Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling
Best for helping professionals or serious self-help readers who want a deeper, more technical understanding of ACT behind The Happiness Trap. This clinician-focused guide breaks down the six ACT processes, offers scripts, exercises, metaphors, and se...
ACT Made Simple: Easy Primer on Acceptance
A workbook-style classic by ACT cofounder Steven C. Hayes for readers who want intensive written exercises alongside The Happiness Trap. It introduces ACT skills through step-by-step practices aimed at anxiety, depression, anger, and other painful ex...
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
Ideal for readers whose main struggle is recurrent low mood or depression alongside the themes in The Happiness Trap. Grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, it explains how habitual rumination and efforts to ‘fix’ sadness can worsen depress...
The Mindful Way Through Depression
This unofficial companion is for readers who want a structured, question-and-exercise-based way to apply each idea from The Happiness Trap (Second Edition). It focuses on translating the book's concepts-like values clarification, defusion, and accept...
The Happiness Trap (2nd Edition): How to Stop Struggling
Good for readers whose main barrier to living their values from The Happiness Trap is chronic self-doubt, performance anxiety, or avoidance. Using ACT and mindfulness, Harris shows how to change your relationship with fear, clarify values, and take a...
The Confidence Gap: Overcoming Fear & Doubt
Best suited to readers applying The Happiness Trap in the middle of serious life crises such as bereavement, illness, breakup, or job loss. Harris uses ACT methods and real-life stories to guide you through ‘reality slaps’-painful gaps between the li...
The Reality Slap: Finding Peace & Fulfillment
A concise, cartoon-rich version of The Happiness Trap for those who prefer short, visual explanations or need a quick refresher. Co-created with illustrator Bev Aisbett, it distills ACT ideas into simple graphics and brief text, targeting issues like...