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Patchwork of Comforts, a book to calm your soul, and relieve your stress and anxiety

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Thank you for your interest in receiving Comfort Clues, which is sort of an extension of my book. I do my best to come up with easy, painless ways to tweak your life — simple ways to gradually modify old habits — so that it will be less frazzled. The goal is to turn your life into a calmer and more enjoyable existence... not to mention healthier. Comfort Clues, my own little brand of therapy, offer simple ideas you may not have thought of before. Nothing radical.

Join the growing number of us who are tired of going through our days with too much stress and anxiety. Change is hard, but getting a small reminder — only one paragraph — every two weeks will make the transition easier. Sometimes we just need a wake-up call. Below is the last clue I sent. Follow the link to “Past Comforts” if you want to read more. Then tell us where to send them below.

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Thank you all for your responses. This I now know for certain: many of you are coping with grief. Unfortunately, like a cold, there's really no way around it. Fortunately, you're not alone; loss is something we all have in common. Most major changes in life carry with them the feeling of loss... of the way it used to be. Adjustment is very hard, but everyone has to eventually cope with this heartache, through the death of moms and dads and children and mates and grandparents and friends and.... beloved pets. This I also know for certain; there are no rules. Everyone deals with grief differently. There is no wrong way to react. The profound sadness might mellow in time, but the memory of "then" can lurk around and suddenly loom like it was yesterday. It might seem frivolous in light of such sadness, but it's been proven: laughter can offer you relief when even one minute counts. I've heard from many grateful friends over the years after I sent them a humorous card in the midst of a really awful time. Consider visiting your local, humorous, greeting card rack. Laughing is mandatory there.

What others think about the book
Just think how much different our lives would be - calmer, happier, healthier - if we spent more time nurturing ourselves and less time on the endless string of tasks we assign ourselves each day," says Wiseman, who is clearly a wise woman. For this book, she contacted "everyone" she knew to ask about the simple pleasures that comforted them most. The results are not terribly surprising: spending time alone, eating out, petting a dog or cat, daydreaming, shopping, reading, meditating, cooking. ("Chopping veggies counts as therapy when you imagine familiar faces on them first," Wiseman quips.) But then, the joy of small comforts comes not from originality but from easy familiarity, so the fact that there are few surprises here is more an asset than a liability. Many readers will rediscover their own "small pleasures" in these pages and be reminded to indulge in them more often" Publisher's Weekly, -