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                          Kristen Houghton is the author of the popular new book,
“AND THEN I’LL BE HAPPY! Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness and Put Your Own Life First”
published by GPP life, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press.

  With a foreword and endorsement by Dr. Janet Taylor, prominent NYC psychiatrist and
"Today Show" correspondent, this book is for anyone who’s ever sacrificed her own
happiness trying to make someone else happy . . . who’s assigned her happiness, one
more time, to some future date “in a galaxy far, far away.”

With "And Then I’ll Be Happy!", Kristen Houghton, gives women the tools they need to
shake off the unhappiness epidemic. In a beguiling blend of practical advice and humor,
she debunks the myths about how and when women find happiness. Houghton presents
fourteen true stories of women who put their happiness on hold for different reasons,
provides tips on what readers can do to avoid a similar problem, and identifies the major
mindsets that keep women from happiness.

With this book, women everywhere—whether in the midst of their careers, choosing to
be stay-at-home moms, or those caring for aging parents—can put their happiness right
where it belongs: in the present.

Kristen writes about women, happiness, and living well for the Huffington Post. She is
also a nationally syndicated columnist for Examiner.com, an affiliate of the Hearst News
Organization, where her highly popular Relationships column reaches millions of readers
worldwide. She is a featured writer for Hartford Woman, SWI International Magazine, and
Today Magazine. Kristen has been writing about women's issues, relationships, and how
to live a personally successful life, in major print magazines and online for over ten years
and is a frequent media contributor and speaker.

Believing that women and men can make personal changes that will enable them to live
successfully and well, Kristen dispenses solid, practical advice to help her readers achieve
their goals. Her innate ability offer reality-based solutions to life's problems has garnered
her praise from fans and critics alike. Critics have hailed Kristen's writing as "fresh, sharp,
insightful, real, and sexy funny."

  She is a strong advocate for Human Rights, Empowerment for Women, and the National
Literacy Program. Kristen also lends her support to the North Shore Animal League and
Broadway Barks.

  As a well-respected educator, Kristen has taught International Languages, Linguistics,
and Cultures on the secondary and university levels. Writing, however, has always been
her first passion and she was able to combine her love of words and language to launch a
new career as an author and journalist. Through her work as an author, relationship
writer, and public speaker she is now educating women and men on how to live a
successfully happy life.

  Under the name, CK Houghton, she writes "nice little horror stories" guaranteed to make
you check your locks and look under the bed before going to sleep.

  Happily married, Kristen and her husband Alan reside in the New York City area.

  If you are interested in having Kristen Houghton speak to your group or organization on
relationships or life issues, please contact her at: kch@kristenhoughton.com

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