Happiness book scoops second international award

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16.09.13

Happiness book scoops second international award

Acclaimed New Zealand author Marnie McDermott has scooped a second international award for her book Beyond Happiness: The 12 Principles of Enduring Bliss, putting it among the best mind-body-spirit releases of 2013.

Beyond Happiness received a gold medal as the best enlightenment/spirituality book of the year in the US-based Living Now Book Awards announced this month.

It was also recently named the best mind, body, spirit book of the year in the international Indie Excellence Book Awards.

The Living Now Book Awards is designed to honour life-changing books, and to recognise the year’s best lifestyle, homestyle, world-improvement and self-improvement books.

Awards spokesperson Jim Barnes said, “The Living Now Book Awards honour books that build bridges and help raise our collective consciousness. That’s what great books do -- they help us imagine positive change, and give us the information we need to make good changes happen. As Marnie McDermott writes in the Enlightenment/Spirituality category gold medalist, Beyond Happiness, ‘Give yourself permission to experience your life as something beautiful…now.”

Author Marnie McDermott says she was “over the moon” to receive news of her latest win.

“My dream for this book was that it would stack up against the best personal growth books in the world. I’m absolutely thrilled to be honoured with these awards. It affirms what readers are already saying. This book is beautiful, inspiring and life-changing.”

Happiness. For many of us it is that elusive thing we keep searching for. But, what is it, how do you know when you’ve found it, and how do you keep it? McDermott’s multi award-winning book aims to answer these questions and more.

Beyond Happiness is a non-fiction self-help book about happiness that McDermott was inspired to write after radically transforming her own life. 

This book explores the concept of happiness, and what might be limiting yours, but above all, this book is about inviting happiness into your life. McDermott’s “12 principles of happiness”, are something of a step-by-step programme to facilitate readers in their search for harmony and happiness.

No stranger to the search for happiness, up until a few years ago, McDermott was caught in her own “happiness trap”, desperately trying to find happiness by accumulating more and more things. A devastating house fire was the first step towards a simpler, happier life.

After many years of work in the government, health, and not-for-profit sectors, Marnie is now a successful author and professional life coach, with her second book Soul Happiness due for release later this year.

Beyond Happiness: The 12 Principles of Enduring Bliss by Marnie McDermott
WINNER: Indie Excellence Awards, mind, body, spirit book of the year
WINNER: Living Now Book Awards, enlightenment/spirituality book of the year

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