Be Happy, Always: Simple Practices For Overcoming Life's Challenges and Living Each Day With Joy (For Fans of Chicken Soup for the Soul)

Xandria Ooi (XO) book is written in a convenient and easy to read...that is helping me understand how to identify my own "hot buttons" and respond better to negative situations in life. I've been marking this book up with my notes and comments...It's a very therapeutic book and provided me with a shift in perspective about many life issues.

I cannot give this book accolades and praise enough. Xandria’s honesty, grace, patience, deep thoughtfulness, wisdom, and love is what we all need more of in our lives. She draws from the wisdom of her own experiences, her relationships, past pains even, and the experiences of others around her to share what it means to live life with whole hearted courage, love, no regret, deep reflection, and joy overflowing. Her beautiful heart shines very brightly through the pages and I find myself going back to some of the chapters in this book over, and over again to remind myself that going the distance in all that we do is a thousand times worthwhile. This is so very much more than a book about “being happy always.” It’s about how we can all truly with intention and love, be the very best we can possibly be with a heart full of joy and thankfulness for this beautiful life. If you’re even contemplating this book, get it. In fact get several copies and share it as gifts to your loved ones. You’ll be so glad you did!☺️

Have you ever gone through something really tough and you think you'll never feel better about it? Get depressed for a long while, and even when the pain eases up, you find yourself mourning over it often?…That was me.Three years ago, I went through the worst thing I've ever encountered in my life of 31 years. I speak about it in great magnitude in my book that I have yet to finish editing. Oh well, good things take time I guess, and hey, I'm almost finished. Even if it does take another few years to complete...The pain and trauma of that experience was far worse than childbirth (twice), healing from that with an injury, fracturing bones, any strain or muscle tear I've had, getting my arm pulled out of socket and put in (also twice), losing my father from cancer, AND being taken advantage of when I was 18…Even when I felt better and had multiple moments of clarity and peace about the situation, the feeling would always surface from it in different aspects.I'm not one of those people who knows how to suppress feelings, and when I tried I just got filled with anxiety. So I always work through them. It was always so hard to let go. But then I finally learned how to. I continuously had to work through the steps to be able to let go of the past when it came to mind, and learned how to cope about it pretty well. The therapists were no help though, but from reading and praying a lot these practices were slowly and sporadically healing me. Enough to have good days even with the instances from that terrible time in the back of my mind. I uncontrollably meditated about what happened back then and man it did not serve me well!Two months from now, I'll be three years removed from that situation and time in my life, and I, finally, feel, FREE of it! I never thought I'd see the day really. I figured I'd just have to deal with it until I either died or somehow forgot about it. And the situation did not change, only my mindset did!Gonna repeat one more time – the circumstances never changed, only the way I feel about it changed!I'm so happy, and better than I ever felt about anything in this life! I appreciate my life again and I'm so grateful! If I can have joy in spite of that situation, I feel like I can get through anything! Perspective is so powerful and definitely one of the keys to happiness. Hope you all are feeling as great as I've been feeling lately, but if you are not, hang in there, do a ton of research, READ THIS BOOK, and know that you are a gift to this world. Because since you are here you have something to contribute. Creativity is within you, love is within you, and you are so brilliant! Let this always flow. And if you don't need to hear it, than I'll just reaffirm it to myself. Love and peace!!!This book is life saving!

I personally loved the book. It has helped me a lot over the year whenever I face similar and different people. There was one time last year when this neighbor, his wife and their 11 other invited people had been shouting at me in front of their lawyer and insisting that I was such an irresponsible apartment manager. They even mentioned things that were not necessary such as my personal life. So as things got escalated, I was just so happy that my instant reaction was to remain silent and maintain my composure and I responded to them in a slow speaking and civil manner — All these because of this book. So I’m really happy and thankful that I was able to read this book. I’m already waiting for the next from this author. Good job and very thanks to Xandria.(Btw I was called because of my tenants’ behavior, I was 23, they were in late 30s and 40s and def they don’t know me personally).

I liked the entire book. Easy to understand and packed with great ideas, techniques and knowledge! I highly recommend it!!!

She does a great job at reminding you of what's truly important and that happiness is inside. This book gives you some good tools to reach inside of ourselves and really grab this elusive happiness we keep seeking.

I love all the advice Xandria gives. I bought this when it’s was first released and slowly read it cause I don’t wanna finish it cause I love everything written in it. This book is excellent and easy to read. She also posts videos on her Facebook and Instagram which I follow as well. Excellent I recommend her work. 10/10 5/5 ✨✨

I love this book so much!The author knows exactly what triggers sadness, how to address the issues through examples and how to help the reader to change the perspective of thinking and dealing with certain circumstances.I definitely recommend this book! It is a must for a better and wiser perception of life.

Great book, Xandria Ooi has a skill for explaining things simply and to the point. Great advice and insight on our outlook, relationships and everyday challenges. Chapters are well organised and offers an alternative chapter system too. Great read to become happy, always!

Xandria is all around amazing. Worth reading her book!

Xandria’s book is a must read!!! Highly recommended book about relationships, perspective, understanding situations and circumstances, putting yourself in other’s people’s shoes and accepting the realities of life. Like, this book is super amazing, and I listen to the audiobook while driving and it makes me feel super amazing and i now able to understand situations better after reading the book. Thank you Xandria for writing this book. I learned a lot from your book and you Yuri and your Mom’s stories and this is one of my favorite audiobook. I will buy more and share it to my friends! Looking forward to more books like this one. Hope you write more Xandria because once people read your book, people will learn to understand themselves and other people as well. Thank you... thank you! 😍😍😍

I love this book and everything that Xandria Ooi has written. It's definitely a good read and it has helped me think in a different way. I also have been putting sticky notes in sections of the book and marking the chapters that gave me that "ah ha" moment. Xandria's outlook on life and her perspective has really opened my own eyes on how to view life and its challenges. The only thing about this book (and as to why I gave it a 4 star out of 5) is because the body text size of the book is smaller than your standard book font size. I think typically a standard book is usually between size 10-12 depending on the font used, but this one, I feel like the is between size 8-9 so I found the readability not as "smooth". But overall, the content of the book is great!

Ein wunderschön geschriebenes buch, was jedem etwas helfen kann. Es hilft die Welt und sich selbst mit anderen augen zu betrachten.Mir hat es zu einem stärkeren selbstbewusstsein verholfen. Auch Xandrias videos auf Instagram kann ich sehr empfehlen. Würde es jederzeit wieder lesen.