The essential guide to living well, from Ireland’s leading voice in psychology
After a career of over fifty years in psychology, Dr Maureen Gaffney has compiled the most essential life lessons for living with intention and taking control of your happiness.
This book will describe the events and experiences that have shaped the way Dr Gaffney views and approaches life. Dealing with topics such as setting boundaries, building your capacity for happiness, strengthening your relationships with others, resilience and coping mechanisms, this book offers valuable tools and insights for dealing with the stresses of everyday life. While generally informed by research, its main focus is personal experiences and observations.
Dr Maureen Gaffney is a leading clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster. She has had a distinguished academic career and has worked as a consultant, specializing in leadership and organizational change, working with companies around the world to build strong, emotionally intelligent leadership and innovative and resilient work cultures. Among her clients have been multinational organisations in financial services and in the voluntary and community sectors. She has served on numerous state and other boards and is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Maureen is also a popular columnist and broadcaster and an inspirational and authoritative speaker who has addressed audiences in Ireland, the UK, the US, Sweden, Germany and Spain. Her previous books Flourishing (2011) and Your One Wild and Precious Life (2021) were both No 1 Irish bestsellers. Flourishing was the basis of a major two-part RTÉ TV documentary, and Your One Wild and Precious Life won theRTÉ Audience Choice Irish Book Award and was shortlisted for overall Irish Book of the Year in 2021. She lives in Dublin with her husband, John. They have two grown-up children and five grandchildren.
