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Happy Right Now: Empowering Children To Find Happiness Within

Happy Right Now: Empowering Children To Find Happiness Within, by Julie Berry. Cover of book, Happy Right Now by Julie Berry; illustration of child in grass by Holly Hatam
All illustrations by Holly Hatam

A children’s book teaches that the best way to be happy is to embrace the circumstances we find ourselves in each day, rain or shine

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Wishes can be dreams and goals in embryo. They keep us hopeful, imaginative, energized. However, when our wishes persuade us that we can’t be happy until they come true, they may pull us into

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