{"product_id":"find-your-funny-a-survival-guide-9781732318106","title":"Find Your Funny: A Survival Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo Kidding  A humor survival guide for ages 12 and up. This fun guide will help you develop a robust sense of humor and empower yourself with the positivity of humor. A sense of humor is learned. It is a skill you can use all of your life. There are techniques and strategies to get you thinking and seeing funny. Learn to share your humor with others, connect, and make friends. Make this survival guide your new BFF and start enjoying the many physical, psychological, and emotional benefits of laughter. Includes a \"Got Laughter?\" Quiz, Cool Comedy Pages, and Fun Facts. This guide is co-written by Barb Best, an award winning comedy writer and Joanne Jackal, PhD, a psychotherapist and former stand up comedienne. \"The quintessential book on the importance of humor in our lives.\" - Larry Wilde, \"America's Best Selling Humorist\" - The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest, Barb:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Barb's fun blog \"I Feel Your Pain\" appears at BarbBest.com and Alltop.com - and woo hoo - it was named by Feedspot as one of the \"Top 100 Humor Blogs on the Planet.\" Her comedy material has been performed by Joan Rivers and her essays and light verse have been published in numerous print and digital publications. Be sure to boost your feel-good hormones by treating yourself to Barb's latest book The Misery Manifesto: A Self-Help Parody for the Self-Absorbed. Did you know? She's an Erma Bombeck Global Humor Winner.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoanne Jackal, Phd:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Joanne Jackal, PhD is a psychotherapist with more than twenty-five years experience treating children, adolescents and young adults for behavioral health and substance abuse problems. Her dynamic therapeutic approach utilizes elements of positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive therapy and is informed by an early career in New York City as a stand-up comedienne. She is the former Clinical Director of a therapeutic day school for emotionally disturbed adolescents, and is currently in private practice in Ohio. Her emotion management course Get A Grip! helps clients learn strategies for coping with feelings of anxiety, depression, and anger while having a good laugh! \"Who says therapy can't be fun?\" is her mantra. \"Helping people generate humor and laughter in the face of life's difficulties is one of the most important services I can provide.\"","brand":"Barb Best","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50362829177106,"sku":"9781732318106","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa3c84ec-b2ec-49a5-ab67-698377a0f250.jpg?v=1728396452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/find-your-funny-a-survival-guide-9781732318106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}