How to Have a Happy Birthday Book Review

This year I have a special birthday coming up. I feel quite resigned to it now, but I’ve had a lot of issues with birthdays in the past, both mine and my family’s. So when I was asked to review How to Have a Happy Birthday by Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming I thought I would be the perfect candidate.

How to Have a Happy Birthday and Workbook.

The Blurb

Your birthday is a major holiday. Discover a new approach to transform your experience into one that is more satisfying and delightful.

Birthdays are supposed to be happy, yet sometimes aren’t. Or they’re festive—but not fulfilling. Whether you enjoy celebrating your birthdays or not, this book is for you.

With a wise and refreshing voice, author and birthday aficionado Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming understands the complex emotions that can arise as the day approaches and believes in the power of the day to uplift and honor your unique existence. Now she’s here to share thoughtful ways to embrace the moment and ignite the spark.

In How to Have a Happy Birthday, you’ll discover:

• A comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about becoming “birthday-positive”
• Thoughtful questions to help you identify and ease fears, so you’ll discover what will bring you joy on your special day
• Anecdotes, creative plans, and new ideas to help you find the magic and shape your day
• What to do—and NOT to do—to transform this celebration into pure enjoyment
• Tips to dodge the birthday blues, a personal workbook, and much more!

How to Have a Happy Birthday is a thorough dive into a day that is often glossed over or trivially observed. Whether you are 18 or 80, if you like heartfelt advice, straight-forward information, and refreshing points of view, then you’ll love this book.

Read How to Have a Happy Birthday and receive the true gifts your birthday promises!

My Review of How to Have a Happy Birthday.

This is a small paperback book but it’s full of all those things that can make you think about your birthday differently. Some have no problem and enjoy all their birthdays no matter what. Other’s are often left feeling underwhelmed or even overwhelmed. Everyone is different.

As a child, birthdays in my family were always a huge event. Maybe not parties every year, but even without there were lots of treats, surprises, gifts and cards. As I’ve grown older I’ve discovered that it’s a new generation and my birthday in particular, has not really been celebrated much. I was promised a very special time for my last ‘big’ birthday but because I didn’t organise it, I ended up with a take out. I did get some lovely gifts though so I’m not complaining. Who wants a party anyway?

Me, why couldn’t I have had that one celebration, especially as it was the last one before I got sick – but no-one was to know that. I could have looked back on it and felt how special I was to everyone, but it didn’t happen and as you can still, I still feel bitter. Well, I did until I worked my way through this book which helped me contemplate why I have these feelings still.

I’ve made birthdays special for my kids for years but they are growing up now. Parties and fun stuff is required less. My older kids would really not enjoy a party anyway. When my daughter had her 21st we had a BBQ and I invited a lot of people who all brought presents and cards. I’d told my daughter it was just a BBQ and not for her birthday. BIG mistake, she was overwhelmed and very angry at me.

This book helps you to put all these sort of things into perspective and teaches you way to celebrate your birthday (and those of others) in the way that you (or they) really want. If you are the sort of person who gets depressed about birthday’s then this book will help you. If you are out of ideas of how to celebrate, then this book will help you.

At the end of the book is a work book for you write down your feelings about birthday’s and what you would really like.

It’s certainly given me food for thought. Only the other week I was looking at places where I could hold a party for my special birthday this year, or even places where it would be accessible enough for me to have a good time and invite all my family for a meal. But that’s not what I really want. So I’m going to organise my birthday to suit me and make me happy. I missed out last time, this time I’m going to remember it for the right reasons.

How to Have a Happy Birthday Workbook

The Blurb

Your birthday is a major holiday. Discover a new approach to transform your experience into one that is more satisfying and delightful.

In this official companion workbook to Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming’s award-winning How to Have a Happy Birthday: Create Meaning, Fulfillment and Joy on Your Special Day, you will reflect upon your unique feelings and perspective about your birthday and discover how you can make your own personal holiday more fulfilling.

In the How to Have a Happy Birthday Workbook, you’ll investigate:

• Why your birthdays can be challenging
• Why you resist getting older
• Why you are worthy of celebration
• How you can prioritize time in your life for what matters
• What your positive purpose in life is
• What you love most
• How to craft a birthday wish

With a wise and refreshing voice, Hurwitz-Fleming invites you to take charge of your day, plan for it as if it’s a major holiday, and enrich it with more intention so you can truly be happy and fulfilled.

The How to Have a Happy Birthday Workbook is the perfect journal to explore your feelings about your birthday and discover what you can do to create meaning, fulfillment, and joy on your special day.

My Review of How to Have a Happy Birthday Workbook

This little book is mainly a book of questions with pages for you to write your answers. What do you feel about your birthday, what do you want when your birthday arrives, how do past birthdays make you feel, list things you enjoy, people you admire, activities you enjoy. I think you get the idea, it helps YOU decide what you really want.

I am definitely going to fill this in. I was talking with friends the other day and they asked what I’d got planned. My birthday is not until November, but being close to Christmas having an event elsewhere has to be booked early. I’ve decided I don’t want a big birthday event as such, but I’m going to work out lots of little things that make ME happy and enjoy myself that way.

Birthdays are special, but that doesn’t mean you have to have a big party or eat out with a load of people while you are the centre of attention. You can get all the attention you need in other ways and be made to feel special in the way that you really want.