I Should Be Happy: When the Life You Built No Longer Feels Like Yours (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798180446862)

You did everything right.

The career. The relationship. The apartment. The social life. The life that looks, from any reasonable external vantage point, like a life that is working.

So why does it feel like someone else's house?

I Should Be Happy is for the woman in her mid-thirties who built the right life and woke up one day feeling nothing - not sad exactly, not depressed, not ungrateful. Just quietly, persistently hollow in a way she cannot explain to anyone because nothing is technically wrong.

She has tried the gratitude journal. The meditation. The morning routine. The therapy. None of it fixed it. Not because she did it wrong - because none of it was addressing the actual problem.

The problem is not that she needs more practices. The problem is that she lost herself somewhere between building the life and maintaining it. Between optimizing for approval and optimizing for what she actually wanted. Between the version of herself who used to want things and the version who stopped wanting because wanting had stopped leading anywhere.

This book is not about burning it down. Not about quitting everything and moving to Bali. Not about setting better boundaries or practicing more gratitude.

It is about the honest, specific, unglamorous work of finding the version of yourself that went quiet - and discovering that she was never as far away as the hollow feeling suggested.

I Should Be Happy will help you:

• Name the hollow feeling you have been managing instead of hearing
• Understand how you built a life that looks right and feels like someone else's
• Recover the wanting that went underground
• Give yourself permission - without waiting for anyone else's approval - to want things freely
• Find your way back to yourself inside the life you already have

Because the feeling is not gone. It is buried. And buried is not the same as lost.