The Good Life
your online Positive psychology BOOK CLUB
What it’s about
Learn, grow and connect with The Good Life book club
The Good Life is a book club designed for women who want to reconnect with joy, purpose, and fulfillment – one book at a time.
At its core, it’s not simply about reading. It’s about gently shifting how you think, how you feel, and how you show up in your everyday life.
Each month we explore ideas drawn from positive psychology: happiness, purpose, relationships, emotions, vitality, goals, optimism, resilience — and every so often, a timeless classic that still has something to teach us.
How it works
- At the beginning of the month, you’ll receive a thoughtfully chosen title and a reading guide.
- Get your hands on the book – borrow, buy, or listen to a copy.
- Read the book over the month.
- Enjoy the weekly reflection emails and take what resonates.
- At the end of the month, you’ll receive a worksheet to try a tiny experiment in your own life.
- Repeat with the next month’s book!
Everything is designed to support meaningful growth at your own pace. You stay in the book club until you want to leave.
There’s no charge for The Good Life but you source the book yourself.
February 2026 book club selection
Languishing – Corey Keyes
The Emory University sociologist who coined the term languishing—low-grade mental weariness that affects our self-esteem, relationships, and motivation—explores the rise of this phenomenon and presents a comprehensive guide to flourishing in a world that demands too much.
If you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in the small things . . .
If you feel an inner void—like something is missing, but you aren’t sure what . . .
Then this book is for you.
Languishing—the state of mental weariness that erodes our self-esteem, motivation, and sense of meaning—can be easy to brush off as the new normal, especially since indifference is one of its symptoms. It’s not a synonym for depression and its attendant state of prolonged sadness. Languishers are more likely to feel out of control of their lives, uncertain about what they want from the future, and paralyzed when faced with decisions. Left unchecked, languishing not only impedes our daily functioning but is a gateway to serious mental illness and early mortality.
Emory University sociologist Corey Keyes has spent his career studying the causes and costs of languishing—the neglected middle child of mental health. Now Keyes has written the first definitive book on the subject, examining the subtle complexities of languishing before deftly diagnosing the larger forces behind its rise: the false promises of the self-help industrial complex, a global moment of intense fear and loss, and a failing healthcare system focused on treating rather than preventing illness.
Ultimately, Keyes presents a groundbreaking approach to breaking the cycles keeping us stuck and finding a path to true flourishing. Unlike self-improvement systems offering quick-fix mood boosts, his framework focuses on functioning well: taking simple but powerful steps to hold our emotions loosely, becoming more accepting of ourselves and others, and carving out daily moments for the activities that create cycles of meaning, connection, and personal growth.