FINALLY FINDING MY HAPPINESS

It took Samantha Brook, 49, years to crack the code

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Looking round a table of smiling faces, I felt a sense of pride. It was February 2025, my monthly meet-up of the Happiness Club, empowering people who were fed up of feeling fed up to take action. 'No one is responsible for your happiness, but you,' I told the group.

As a cheerful, bubbly person, it'd be easy to think I'd always been this way, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

My parents’ divorce when I was five had a huge impact. An unhappy childhood followed, and throughout my teens I felt nothing but an underlying sense of hopelessness.