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What About the Big Stuff?

Finding Strength and Moving Forward When the Stakes Are High

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By Richard Carlson

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On Sale
Sep 17, 2003
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Balance
ISBN-13
9780786888801

Price

$21.99

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$28.99 CAD

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  1. Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  3. Hardcover $36.00 $46.00 CAD

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Now in paperback, the bestselling author of the Don’t Sweat series offers advice on how to deal with life’s bigger issues.

With more than 21 million copies in print, Richard Carlson’s bestselling Don’t Sweat series has shown countless families, lovers, and professionals how not to sweat the small stuff. Now, Carlson takes on a subject that many people have asked him about on his nationwide lectures and tours: “But Richard. What do you do about the big stuff?”

In this groundbreaking new book, Carlson tackles the difficult issues–from illness, death, injury, and aging, to alcoholism, divorce, and financial pressures–with his trademark and eminently helpful advice.

What About the Big Stuff? will help anyone feel better able to deal with life’s twists and turns by offering warm, reassuring guidance in chapters such as:

  • Overcome Aging Anxiety
  • Become a Healing Force
  • Experience Calm Resolve
  • Retire with Ease
  • Let Go of Your Past
  • and much more.

Genre:

  • Mind, Body, Spirit
  • Self-help
  • Personal Growth
  • General

During his life, Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world and was a frequent featured guest on many national television and radio programs. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon with over twenty titles in the brand franchise, two of which were co-authored and authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

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Richard Carlson

About the Author

During his life, Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world and was a frequent featured guest on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, The View, NNC, CNN, Fox, PBS and over 2000 other shows. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon with over 20 titles in the brand franchise, two of which were co-authored and authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

Kristine Carlson is a New York Times bestselling author and renowned speaker recognized worldwide for the global success of The Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff book series she co-authored with her late husband Dr. Richard Carlson. Heartbroken Open, her life-changing memoir, has become a biopic Lifetime Television movie starring Heather Locklear titled, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story.
 
With over 25 million books in print, Kristine has emerged today as a leading mindfulness expert and transformational guide who has been featured on national radio and television broadcasts, including The Today Show, The View, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2010, she was awarded the Kennedy Laureate Award by John F. Kennedy University alongside the iconic chef Alice Waters and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta. 
 
Kristine’s mission is to show people that it is possible to love your life again after profound loss and major change—and to discover that more laughter, love, and happiness await you.  
 

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