In Happiness Matters, bestselling author Fran Macilvey (Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy) explores how we can make our lives joyful, whatever our circumstances. Despite forty years of walking the wrong way, Fran has always known that life is beautiful, a gift which can be filled with sunshine and laughter. After a decades-long journey from the depths of despair, she longed to find somewhere peaceful and fun, and a path home to self-acceptance. She started writing about her ambition to be happy. The result is Happiness Matters, a practical, straightforward guide to achieving contentment. In this volume Fran brings together many nuggets of hard-won wisdom she gleaned on her travels, crystalizing many insights she uses every day to create a happy, meaningful life. Using her experiences as a testing ground, Fran shares simple tools and techniques and reveals - How simple changes can transform our lives - How to overcome resistance to change - Important reasons for releasing the past. - The value of forgiveness You can learn from Fran's mistakes and brighten up your life. Because, after all, happiness matters.