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Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.--Oprah Winfrey

This book is going to change the way you see your life.

Have you ever wondered Why did I do that? or Why can't I just control my behavior? Others may judge our reactions and think, What's wrong with that person? When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.

Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking What's wrong with you? to What happened to you?

Here, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. In conversation throughout the book, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. It's a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it's one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future--opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.

A beautifully packaged and updated edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling book celebrating a decade of timeless wisdom, with new content from Oprah

What do you know for sure?

This is the question that guided Oprah Winfrey's long-running magazine column, where she reflected on her life and shared insights with millions of readers. It was a question, she said, that offered her a way to take stock of her life in pivotal moments. Over the years, there have been many such opportunities, such as when she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show, launched her own television network, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and celebrated milestone birthdays.

These essays offer a rare and profound glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women. Now, for the first time, this powerful collection has been updated with new material and stories reflecting Oprah's seven decades of lived experience. Candid, inspiring, and dynamic, the words Oprah shares in What I Know For Sure shimmer with the sort of wisdom and truth that readers will turn to, and share, again and again.

Es posible ser más feliz de lo que ya eres.

Cuando todo en la vida va bien, es fácil confiar en el futuro; pero cuando nos sentimos estancados y sin motivación, parece que los días buenos jamás volverán. Oprah Winfrey y Arthur C. Brooks te enseñan a cimentar los pilares para una felicidad que no dependa de las circunstancias externas.

Aprenderás a:
1. Entender y sacarle provecho a tu mezcla única de felicidad.
2. Usar cafeína emocional para cambiar la manera en la que experimentas el mundo.
3. Descifrar el rumbo de tu carrera laboral para conseguir un trabajo significativo.
4. Reescribir tu pasado con ayuda de la metacognición.

Las herramientas que encontrarás aquí, comprobadas científicamente, mejorarán tu rutina y sanarán las áreas primordiales para una felicidad que no es eterna, pero sí constante: familia, amistad, trabajo y espiritualidad. Si estás cansado de esperar a que lo bueno suceda por arte de magia, descubre en estas páginas una manera accesible y realista de lograr la vida que tanto anhelas.

La felicidad no es la meta, y la infelicidad no es la enemiga.

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You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime.

This is a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and years of helping people translate ideas into action, Brooks and Winfrey show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change.

The book centers on four practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. Along the way, the authors share hard-earned wisdom from their own lives and careers, as well as the witness of people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. With insight, compassion, and hope, this book reveals how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life―immediately.

Happiness is not the goal, and unhappiness is not the enemy.

La gran Oprah Winfrey, presentadora y periodista norteamericana conocida en todo el mundo, y el Dr. Bruce Perry, psiquiatra especialista en trauma infantil, nos muestran en este libro cómo nuestras primeras experiencias infantiles pueden marcar nuestro futuro.

Alguna vez te has preguntado: Por qué hice eso? o, simplemente, Por qué no me puedo controlar? . La presentadora y periodista Oprah Winfrey y el renombrado experto en trauma y cerebro, el Dr. Bruce Perry, nos ofrecen en este libro un cambio profundo de perspectiva a la hora de pensar sobre nuestro comportamiento y el de los demás. Es hora de dejar de preguntar Qué te pasa? o Por qué te comportas así? y empezar a preguntar: Qué te pasó?

A través de la conversación entre Oprah Winfrey y el Dr. Perry, en este libro descubrirás cómo lo que nos sucede en la primera infancia tiene una gran influencia sobre la persona adulta en que nos convertimos. También comprenderás que las adversidades que experimentamos impactan en nuestra salud física y emocional y qué dice la ciencia sobre los patrones de comportamiento que nos cuesta tanto entender. Este libro te ofrece una nueva perspectiva para interpretar tu pasado, despejar el camino hacia nuestro futuro y abrir la puerta a la resiliencia y la curación.

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If you have ever wondered Why did I do that? this book is going to change the way you see your life.

When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking What's wrong with you? to What happened to you?

Here, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. This is a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma--one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future―opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible.

That journey starts right here.

In her latest book, The Path Made Clear, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The book's ten chapters are organized to help you recognize the important milestones along the road to self-discovery, laying out what you really need in order to achieve personal contentment, and what life's detours are there to teach us.

Oprah opens each chapter by sharing her own key lessons and the personal stories that helped set the course for her best life. She then brings together wisdom and insights from luminaries in a wide array of fields, inspiring readers to consider what they're meant to do in the world and how to pursue it with passion and focus. Renowned figures such as Eckhart Tolle, Brene Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jay-Z, and Ellen DeGeneres share the greatest lessons from their own journeys toward a life filled with purpose.

Paired with over 100 awe-inspiring photographs to help illuminate the wisdom of these messages, The Path Made Clear provides readers with a beautiful resource for achieving a life lived in service of your calling - whatever it may be.

Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sunday is the television show she was born to do. I see it as an offering, she explains. If you want to be more fully present and live your life with a wide-open heart, this is the place to come to.

Now, for the first time, the aha moments of inspiration and soul-expanding insight that have enlightened millions on the three-time Emmy Award-winning Super Soul Sunday are collected in The Wisdom of Sundays, a beautiful, cherishable, deeply-affecting book.

Organized into ten chapters--each one representing a powerful step in Oprah's own spiritual journey and introduced with an intimate, personal essay by Oprah herself--the Wisdom of Sundays features selections from the most meaningful conversations between Oprah and some of today's most-admired thought-leaders. Visionaries like Tony Robbins, Arianna Huffington, and Shonda Rhimes share their lessons in finding purpose through mindfulness and intention. World renowned authors and teachers like Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hahn, Marianne Williamson and Wayne Dyer, explain our complex relationship with the ego and the healing powers of love and connection; and award-winning and bestselling writers like Cheryl Strayed, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Elizabeth Lesser explore the beauty of forgiveness and spirituality.

Paired with beautiful photographs, including many from Oprah's private property in California where each episode of Super Soul Sunday is filmed, The Wisdom of Sundays promises to be a timeless keepsake that will help readers awaken to life's wondrous possibilities and discover a deeper connection to the natural world around them.

When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring connection to the past--and carve a tunnel of hope to a brighter future for us all. -Oprah Winfrey


This book, above all else, is a reminder of where we have been and the debt we owe to those who came before. These Americans have not passed the torch, but are clasping it with us, urging us to continue the work alongside them,-Nikole Hannah-Jones

More than 50 elders share their remarkable experiences of being Black in America in a collection of powerful photographs and interviews

For so long, too many stories that reveal what it means and feels like to be Black in America have been overlooked outside Black communities. After these long years of racial reckonings and nascent awakenings, Lift Every Voice presents interviews with the oldest generation of Black Americans about their lives, their experiences, and the wisdom that can carry all of us to a better future. The 54 fascinating individuals--civil rights activists, hometown heroes, celebrities, and many others--include:

- Andre de Shields, an actor, director, and choreographer who discusses the essential values and lessons his parents taught him
- Clarice Freeman, an educator and community leader in Houston, Texas who speaks about how to live a long and fulfilling life
- Fred Gray, a civil rights lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, also featured in the book, against disorderly conduct charges for their refusal to give up their bus seats to white passengers
- Patti LaBelle a singer/songwriter who shares her thoughts on aging and her career as an internationally celebrated powerhouse singer
- Faye Wattleton, a reproductive rights activist and the first African American and youngest president of Planned Parenthood who recounts her experience as a nurse and midwife in the 1960s

The insightful interviews were conducted by a brilliant team, many of whom are rising Black journalists from historically Black colleges and universities, and the portraits were shot by a talented group of next generation Black photographers. Lift Every Voice is named after the James Weldon Johnson poem and hymn Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is often referred to as the Black national anthem.

Lift Every Voice is both a testament to the strength of the elders' stories and a triumphant beginning for a new generation of Black journalists and photographers.