A nice little book with some helpful tips. The links to meditations were a nice addition to the content.

A nice little book which I have found really helpful - I would buy this as a present for a friend. Nicely written and I really liked it.

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I requested this book because I have really been into journaling in the past couple of years and wanted to see what this could offer me to add into my route. Tara has happiness down to a science. The Book is broken up into 7 Steps. That range from health, finding happiness, to the stepping stones to find your version of happiness. I know that happiness is not the same for everyone. I like the boxes that say helpful hints. The book was useful and there are some parts I am going to keep using.

All the steps I would expect in a “happiness” book, plus a few more. Having the meditations both linked AND written out was helpful.

#AGuideToHappiness is a short read, but gives you guided meditations and small creative tasks to encourage you to immediately take action!
If you are someone who connects with meditation and are willing to explore their own minds, this book will help them to find their happiness. There are also tips such as surrounding yourself with your favourite items that ,are you happy, eg perfume, clothes, and having things like films that make you happy on hand.

Thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher for my free advance copy in return for an unbiased review. I will be purchasing for my friends!

It is okay but not really to my liking. Can be helpful to some to add to any other self-care you are doing.

This is a nice little book and would make a nice gift for someone struggling with mental health an needing some support and guidance, but was really not for me.

There's never a bad time to read a guide to happiness, especially during these trying times! I really enjoyed this uplifting book and am excited for more from Tara Ward!

Thank you Netgalley and Tara for the ARC!

A Guide to Happiness by Tara Ward.
This quick guide offers helpful tips and information on using mindfulness and meditation. Seven steps build a way for making happiness a regular and natural part of our lives. The chemistry of our emotions and hormones is explained easily and concisely to help readers understand how and why we feel the way we do, depending on the situation. Several meditation exercises are placed throughout this guide. One of my favorites is the happiness cloud. The book closes with the Happiness Plan which involves questions and exercises to help gear our minds to daily happiness. A fun guide to happiness!

How do you condense “happiness” into one book? This guide is part self-help, part psychological research attempting to define what is happiness and tries to answer how do we achieve it?

This was a little underwhelming and felt more like an “introductory guide” to happiness. There is a link to online guided meditations to accompany the book, a happiness plan and exercises to practice but I wanted more. It was a quick read, but lacking the depth I was after.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a place to start on their journey to happiness, but perhaps not to someone who’s looking for extra things to add to their existing toolkit.

This was shorter than I expected. Some of the nods to things like meditation were nice to see but unfortunately this book was not for me.

This a quick and fabulous read on how you can work on being happier. It’s how to work on finding happiness from the inside through gratitude and mindfulness. There are 7 meditations and a step by step plan on how to be happier.

A Guide to Happiness
By: Tara Ward
3.0 / /5.0

This book needed more than meditation exercises. It needed to have some writing exercises such as a gratitude list of keeping a journal. I was expecting a Happiness Project kind of book, but this was not that. I felt like you could read it all in one day and be done with it when really happiness takes a lot longer than a day to achieve.
IN the e-book it says page 118, but my copy does not have a page 118. I don’t know if this is because I have an ARC(advanced reader’s copy) or if it’s faulty. I would assume if you decided to get this as an e-book when it comes out then it would have more than 40 pages in it. It is a nice step to being happier, but I feel like downloading a mediation app would be just as promising.


Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Happiness-Using-Mindfulness-Meditation/dp/1839403667/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=A+guide+to+happiness+Tara+ward&qid=1592155376&sr=8-1

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-guide-to-happiness-tara-ward/1136270518?ean=9781398800380

This review will appear on my blog on July 20,2020.

Beautiful cover! This was a quick, light read on the value of meditation and mindfulness, as a way to work towards happiness. The author provides personal examples, which I found helpful in providing a useful, practical perspective.
I also found her approach to be intriguing-as she describes 'levels of happiness' which offer a fundamental approach, with the intention of working towards your 'happiness cloud' that you can pull from when needed. This book offer a refreshing guide, with useful tips such as, "find a way to say, I am happy right now' with creative, interesting ways to build your toolkit.
Thank you NetGalley and Arcturus Publishing Limited, for the opportunity to review this wonderful book!

I thoroughly enjoyed the mindful excises in this book. This was a very quick read. Great job! I look forward to reading other books by Tara Ward. Build Your Confidence was excellent as well.

Sometimes you just need a small, easy to digest book that delivers a wonderfully simple path to feeling better. That's what A Guide to Happiness delivers: simple meditations that make it easier and less pressured for the beginning meditator to explore the world of mindfulness. There will always be more complex books, more in-depth explorations of building confidence via meditation, but there are situations in life like a life disruption, pain, change and illness where the reader comes to the book with a swirling mind, just needing to take the first steps of self care. I liked this book for those moments and especially as a great book to hand to the hurting so they may use its meditations. This is the type of book you read, put on your shelf, and take out again in the future multiple times for re-reading when you just need a boost.

Thank you to the publishers and to NetGalley for the review copy.

Was there ever a time when people wanted more to feel better?  This book is about some ways to improve one's life, by becoming more internally at peace, through the use of mindfulness and meditation.  I think that it is worth a look.


The author offers a number of activities to explore on the way to feeling better.  There is also a "happiness plan" for readers to complete.  This offers something concrete to look at when reflecting on happiness in one's life. 


Right in the first chapter, there is a mini meditation.  This sets the tone for what will follow and provides readers with a sense of what to expect.  In this chapter, as in all of the others, the author also gives an example from her personal experience.  If you are a person who can sit mindfully this book could be for you.  It could also be for you if you would like to add a few minutes of calm reflection to your day.


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review.

I have read and tried many books similar to this one, and this is honestly my favourite by far.
It's not a book you can just read and then put back on the shelf, it's one that you need to keep on your coffee table and refer to it when you need a reminder.

There are many helpful hints in your pursuit of happiness, and together with 'mini meditation', I really feel that this book could help many people who struggle with happiness in their lives.

There is also a link for a listening meditation, which I haven't listened to yet. But I'm confident that it will be very useful.

This is a great guide for anyone who is looking to add more mindfulness and meditation to their life. This book is broken up into sections, and each of the sections builds upon each other to ultimately give the reader the tools they need to begin to practice more mindfulness and happiness in their every day life. It is a fairly short workbook, so it is very manageable and was a quick read. I think ideally this would be a great resource to incorporate into morning quiet time or prayer time. I think the book would best be read over the span of a few weeks. I definitely walked away with some interesting insights and takeaways I can apply to my own life.

This is a short book on meditations and mindfulness to be happy.

There is a step by step guide that has a meditation and instructions included. Once you master one step you can move on to the next.

Overall I think the meditations and suggestions are thoughtful! I appreciate that the steps are summarized at the end of the book to move you toward happiness.