The Pleasure Zone: Why We Resist Good Feelings & How to Let Go and Be Happy

This book is both entertaining and scholarly, striking the perfect balance between providing moving personal accounts, background information, and practical suggestions and exercises to practice the theories in your own life. It has changed me, and life is so much more pleasurable than it was before. Thank you Stella Resnick!

I enjoyed this book. What made the book REAL for me was the fact that the author was willing to share her own personal experiences with abuse in her own childhood - very frank and courageous which made everything she wrote real and challenging to me and can be for any one who has found themselves "stuck" and looking to learn how to think "outside the box". I would recommend this book - as learning how to allow happiness and tochange the negative ways we sabotage our own personal happiness is just great and life affirming. A challenge to anyone seeking to change their life at any stage.

This is a great book if you need more pleasure in your life.

Pleasure is not only sex and comfort. The book details many areas where pleasure is overlooked, but can improve the quality of our lives.

Very practical down to earth and accessible invitation to more fully enjoy the life we are put on earth to lead

love it

"In The Pleasure Zone, Stella Resnick offers a number of personal experiments for increasing pleasure. Here's one: 'In a relaxed and experimental frame of mind, look around the area surrounding you and see what pleases you visually. You may see a print in a frame or a pretty view out your window. Look for vividness of color, a pattern of geometric shapes, lines converging and separating, a metallic sheen or patina, a play of light and shadows. Then close your eyes and see what you can recall of what you just saw. What images or colors stand out for you? Open your eyes and compare the true image with what you imagine.' Enhancing visual memory sharpens our ability to truly see what is in front of us, the world in all its majesty and splendor." (review by M.J.Ryan, author of The Happiness Makeover)

An Excellent book, that all Women should read, absorb and change their lives for the better.