The book Living in Balance: A simple guide to finding happiness and living your best life resulted from years of working with patients and speaking to people about the many stressors they have faced. These stressors included depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and unrealistic expectations. This book discusses what restrains people from feeling their best and finding happiness. This book identifies some common problems and provides coping skills to help people handle their stressors productively and effectively. This book can provide a road map to happiness when you feel like you do not know where to begin. Endorsement:With Living in Balance, Christina Stern gently guides us to more fulfillment in our lives. The book is packed with the best of modern wisdom for caring for our minds, bodies and relationships, and delivered with the inspiring nudge we all need at times. Living in Balance offers so many clear ways to take small sustainable steps toward greater happiness, through asking us to pause and work with the strong amazing person we already are. I can't wait to share this amazing book with my students, clients and colleagues. %Julian Pessier, Ph.D. Director Stony Brook University Counseling and Psychological Services Stern's "Living in balance," is a succinct guide to living a healthy life. A simple, approachable read with an intuitive layout- it can be easily navigated time and time again. It is precisely what makes a self-help book actually helpful. The "points to consider" sections offer great summaries of the focal points, which can even be used as personal mantras on the reader's journey towards improved mental health and balanced living. The final section on having a balance with others and maintaining overall balance is the real gem of the book. As Stern instructs: "Use the tools you have learned in this book when times are getting hard," and you will not be disappointed. The down-to-earth narrator creates a centering foundation upon which balance can be achieved in its raw, most honest form. Could Stern have tapped into the key to finding sustainable happiness even during one's darkest moments? %Amy M. Negri, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist About the Author:Christina Stern is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who has her own private psychiatric practice. Christina has worked as a nurse for over ten years in diverse settings, including a psychiatric hospital, emergency department, and nursing home. Christina lives in New York with her husband and two daughters. Her mission has always been to help others, which is why she wrote her first book titled Finding balance: A simple guide to finding happiness and living your best life.