# 155 - Book Club: The Feel Good Effect by Robyn Conley Downs

Wife of the Party

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Comedy, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Book Club is back! Today I sit down with my friends Kirsten and Cathy to talk about the book “The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change” by Robyn Conley Downs. We talk about our thoughts on the book, what we found helpful, perfectionism, guilt, black and white parenting, over thinking, mini milestones, and much more! You can purchase “The Feel Good Effect” here: https://www.amazon.com/Feel-Good-Effect-Reclaim-Wellness/dp/1984858246 Our next Book Club will be “The Wife Upstairs” by Rachel Hawkins Check out the new Wife of the Party Facebook groups here: http://www.facebook.com/pg/wifeotp/gr... I have WOTP merch! You can buy a brand new Wife of the Party mug, shirt, or a tote bag at http://www.wifeotp.com If you have any questions you would like me to answer on the podcast feel free to email me from my website at http://www.wifeotp.com Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Book Club, book club this time,
0:04.0	the feel good effects, see all my Kirsten notes,
0:06.4	the feel good effect.
0:07.8	So this author, Robin Conley Downs,
0:11.0	reached out to me and asked if we would do this as a book club book.
0:15.0	And I said, of course, sure, we would love that.
0:17.8	And I have to tell you, this book was a great reminder of ways I've kind of gotten off track.
0:26.5	She talks about goal setting, reverse engineering goals.
0:30.2	She talks about thinking patterns and how they make you fatigued, how to kind of approach things
0:38.0	from a point of view of joy.
0:40.6	And I got a lot out of this book.
0:43.0	We have a good discussion about, you know,
0:45.8	the things that we kind of were reminded of.
0:49.1	I don't know that I learned anything crazy new.
0:52.4	I don't know that I had any like, aha!
0:54.9	I've never thought of that before.
0:56.2	It was more like, oh yeah, yeah, that does work.
0:59.6	And let me go back and do that again. So I found it very valuable and I think Kirsten and Kathy did
1:07.0	as well. So read it if you haven't already if you're interested and maybe it will help you feel good to feel good effect.
1:16.9	So the next book club we are doing is called The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins.
1:21.8	This is a novel. I don't know that we've ever book clubbed a novel.
1:25.4	We've always only done self-help and memoirs. So it's going to be going to be interesting book club.
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