“An invaluable resource for students and their parents and should be on every college dorm packing list.” -Kristen Amundson, author of 81 Questions for Parents: Helping Your Kids Succeed in School.

Your journey through college will be filled with exciting educational and social opportunities. For many, however, college can also bring significant stress and anxiety. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. 

In Pursuit of the Good Life: Strategies for Well-Being and Success in College addresses the significant challenges that most frequently plague students and provides practical guidance to overcome these difficulties and thrive. Turning on its head the idea that academic success leads to improved well-being, this book instead rests on the foundation that personal well-being is the pillar that supports all other success in college. Organized around key challenges facing students, each chapter explores the research and reasoning surrounding the issue being discussed and offers guidance and exercises to assist the student in navigating and even prospering due to the challenge.

Covering such topics as anxiety, lack of motivation, group dynamics, and busyness vs productiveness, In Pursuit of the Good Life not only provides students with the skills to maximize the benefits of higher education, but to be happy as well.