Dogs exude happiness. (Stay with me here!)
Whether or not you 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 a dog, you can probably picture one and, odds are, it’s excitedly running in circles at the sight of its leash or zooming around the park chasing a ball.
Which is exactly why Michelle Waitzman started thinking about what we can learn from them to be happier, ourselves.
The result is her book Be As Happy As Your Dog: 16 Dog-Tested Ways to Be Happier Using Pawsitive Psychology.
We’re chatting on the Live Diet-Free podcast about a few of those ways today — plus what not to do that dogs do!
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Michelle Waitzman
Michelle Waitzman is a writer, plain language consultant, and dog lover. She is the author of Be as Happy as Your Dog: 16 Dog-Tested Ways to Be Happier Using Pawsitive Psychology, Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature, Moon: Living Abroad in New Zealand, and Psychic Animals: Superstition, Science and Extraordinary Tales. Before her writing career, Michelle worked in TV production and corporate communications. She lives with her husband and two mixed-breed rescue dogs, Marlowe and Nuka, in Toronto, Canada.
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