For every pack sold, $5 will go to the children’s charity Books for Kids.

Welcome to Happy Mails Children’s Edition. These Happy Mails are designed for children ages 7 to 12 and are based on the same principles as the regular Happy Mails. We should all feel good about ourselves and have a life that is filled with hope and optimism. Optimism is a mind state that can be learned and what a better time to learn such an attitude than during childhood?

Let’s not fool ourselves that childhood is rosy and without difficulty and struggle. Children can develop depression in the same way adults can. However research strongly indicates that optimism can help prevent depression. These Happy Mails are an opportunity for a child to look at their life in a positive way, to think about the things they love and clarify what really matters to them. Experiencing positive emotions means a person is more likely to embrace and accomplish goals.

Happy Mails may assist your child in developing and expressing an opinion, so important to self-esteem. They can also assist in reducing extremes of thinking, especially the persistence of negative thoughts. For example, ‘bad things always happen to me’, and ‘good things never come my way’ are common negative thoughts that hopefully through the activities your child will recognise are not true.

These Happy Mails can be completed by the child on their own. However, they are a valuable opportunity to allow parents to interact with their child and get to know them in a more positive environment. Even spending a few minutes a week looking at your child’s Happy Mail will help you appreciate your child better and your child will value the positive attention you give them.

Importantly, Happy Mails provide opportunities for your child to exercise different character strengths. Signature strengths emerge at the age of seven and if nurtured will bring great rewards to your child. As such, you may find your child flourishing in certain activities, since they are getting to use their strengths.

Take a look at the sample Happy Mail which I suggest you print out and give to your child to complete at their leisure.

Happy Mails Children’s Edition come in a pack of 20. Give your child one Happy Mail a week to complete.

Prices are in Australian dollars and payment is made through PayPal. Once you have made your payment you will receive your Happy Mails in your email inbox. Make sure to give a correct email address!

For each pack sold, $5 will go to the children’s charity Books for Kids. The aim of this charity is to provide books to at-risk children. “Literacy is essential to lifelong success.”

Additional information and guidelines are available.

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This guide has been put together for practitioners who are considering using the internet to provide therapeutic services to clients. My website Make the Change was established in 2005 as an online counselling service. As a private practitioner, who was determined to work professionally and ethically, a great deal of effort was put into setting up a site I was satisfied with. As such, I would like to share with you essential matters when considering an online counselling service. Throughout I offer anecdotes from my own experience so you can discover how it was put into practise.

Online Counselling: a Guide for Therapists is available as an eBook for $8.99.

Prices are in Australian dollars and payment is made through PayPal. Once you have made your payment you will receive your eBook in your email inbox. Make sure to give a correct email address!

Book details:

• ISBN: 9780980759020
• Pages: 63
• Publication Date: October 2010
• Publisher: MTC Books

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Happy Mails have been designed to inject some happiness into your life, as you reflect on yourself and the world around you. They are a means of engaging your thoughts, feelings and actions, so you can develop an optimistic outlook on your life. Hopefully you will come to appreciate the value of now and get excited about the future.

Using Happy Mails gives you an opportunity to pause from your day, letting you unwind, reflect and feel good about yourself and your life. So much focus in life is on the negative and dreary. This is an attempt to redress that imbalance, providing you with tips and ideas to boost wellbeing and relieve stress.

In each Happy Mail you will have suggested things to do, relaxation ideas and wellbeing tips all intended to boost your happiness. You also have a chance to reflect on your favourites, think about a weekly goal and brainstorm some of the joyful elements of your life. You also have an opportunity to do a drawing each week. This is your chance to get creative, without needing to attend an art class.

Take a look at the freebie happy mail which I suggest you print out and complete at your leisure.

Happy Mails come in a pack of 20.

Prices are in Australian dollars and payment is made through PayPal. Once you have made your payment you will receive your Happy Mails pack in your email inbox. Make sure to give a correct email address!

By the way, they are called Happy Mails because they were originally set up as a weekly email service. Now they are available as a pack, which means you no longer have to wait to receive them. However, I suggest you still complete one a week. That way, you have 20 weeks worth of happiness reflections and activities to uplift you.

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Now available as a Kindle edition on Amazon.

This collection brings together over 250 of Julia Barnard’s wellbeing and happiness tips.

You may be familiar with these tips from using her Google gadget, visiting her website or subscribing to her newsletter. Finally, you have access to these tips in this one handy volume.

Enhancing happiness and wellbeing is the intention of these tips and suggestions. They are ideas you can easily implement to improve your day. All of these tips are based on sound psychological thinking and are particularly influenced by the principles, ideas and research of positive psychology.

In the book you will find a tip per page with space given for your own notes. Julia encourages you to reflect on each tip and apply it to your own life.

You can order the collection as an eBook for $5.99.

Prices are in Australian dollars and payment is made through PayPal. Once you have made your payment you will receive your eBook in your email inbox. Make sure to give a correct email address!

Book details

• ISBN: 9780980759013
• Pages: 264
• Publication date: October 2010
• Publisher: MTC books

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