Karen Salmansohn is a

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book author and designer with approximately two million books sold nationally and internationally. She is the founder o
notsalmon.com
a personal development site, which offers books and video courses on topics including anxiety, toxic people, emotional eating, relationships, meditation, and happiness. Her website also includes many of her viral quote posters that she writes and designs. Salmansohn was formerly a senior VP ad creative director (at age 26) who left her job to pursue writing. She has been profiled in the

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, and

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. She also appeared in television shows and was a regular lifestyle reporter for

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. From 2005-2008 Salmansohn offered monthly seminars at THE SOHO HOUSE in

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where she lives. In 2007-2008, she had her own

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called ''Be Happy Dammit,'' inspired by the title of her best-selling book. She gave a Tedx Talk titled "Fun is a High Performance Fuel." She also gives seminars nationally (at places like

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, and Media Bistro) and internationally (in

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, and elsewhere). She is a regular columnist for Oprah, CNN, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and MSN. She also wrote a career column for amNY, one of New York's largest newspapers, called "The 1 Minute Career Therapist". She is a relationship expert for

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and

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and had previously been a career coach for

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(alongside Tom Peters and Brian Tracey). She has nearly 40 books, five TV development deals, two film deals, and one perfume named "Unavailable: it's more than a perfume, it's a philosophy." She is most known for her self-help books — like the titles ''How To Be Happy, Dammit'', ''Think Happy'', ''Life is Long'', ''Prince Harming Syndrome'', ''Instant Happy'', ''Friends Forever'', and ''The Bounce Back Book''. On her website, she describes her books as being for "people who would never be caught dead reading self-help books" or "self-help books you can give as a gift and not get slapped because they look kinda cool". Her most recent book, ''Instant Calm'', offers two-minute sensory meditations and was released in August 2019.

References

Selected works

# Karen Salmansohn as Oprah columnist
The difference between “bad compromise” and “good compromise”
# Karen Salmansohn as Psychology Today columnist
Communication Tools To Help Kids Talk About Their Feelings
# Karen Salmansohn as Huffington Post columnist
What Do You Tell Kids When They Ask Why Mean People Are Mean? (And what do you tell yourself too?)
# Karen Salmansohn as CNN columnist

# Karen Salmansohn as Match.com columnist
How to be lucky in love

External links

Official site of Karen Salmansohn
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