You deserve to be happy.

Can the storms of life make you stronger?

Can fear make you evolve?

Have you learned to forgive yourself?

Do you see the past as a burden or have you overcome it?

The answers to the above questions are the keys to loving ourselves – and life. Because the truth is that – contrary to what we have been taught – we are born to be happy.

Psychologist Agni Mariakaki guides us step by step in coming to terms with the unpleasant experiences that keep us stuck in the past and shows us how we can transform them into resources for a better life. Through her valuable knowledge, the narrations of true stories, as well as her personal confessions, become an understandable and invaluable map of our psyche. Agni Mariakaki reminds us what happiness means, how to obtain it and – most importantly – how we deserve it!

REVIEWS

"An inexhaustible text, it creates a fantastic dialectical communication between the author and the reader, as her work is a synthesis of her experiences and a distillation of her experiences. The poetry of her mental wanderings leads to symbolic musings. The visual extension of her speech shapes her ideas into verbal images, insisting on the systematic investigation of the mind and soul, sweetly tearing apart the fabric of truth. With her book, Agni Mariakaki consents to the eternal game of love for life!"

Dr. Maria Doropoulou, Intercultural pedagogy, Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

"Having spent most of my life studying trauma and PTSD, I am happy for my students and fellow travelers like Agni Mariakaki, who in her book shows the other side of pain, the invisible one. That is, she presents how in the great problems of people hide supreme solutions of humanity, strength and capacity for joy and evolution."

Dr. Jane Simington , Professor of Psychology, in collaboration with the University of Alberta, Canada

"In her book, Agni Mariakaki highlights how the great difficulties in a person's life can ultimately be gateways to inner upliftment. By weaving her true and vivid stories with scientific evidence, she shows how one can grasp the meaning of life through pain itself. I am grateful for this unique insight."
Eleni Vougioukalou , President of the Open People's University