Have Fun – Change The World
I’m Diane Reading — writer, facilitator, lifelong student of what actually makes a life work and recovering member of the too-serious club…
For decades I’ve explored one deceptively simple idea: you don’t need to change what you’re doing to change your life. You need to change how you’re being. Everything I write and share comes back to that.
If you really want to grok everything I’ve written, taught, and coached, read the dragon books.
It’s all in there. Every bit of it, told as stories instead of instructions. The Happiness Dragons™ pick up the happy we make (every laugh, every kindness, every bit of fun) and carry it to wherever it’s needed most. They’re bedtime stories for everyone, and grown-ups need them every bit as much as kids do.
→ It looks like a gentle little joy project. It’s actually a quiet rebellion. Fair warning. ←
(button: Meet the Happiness Dragons → HappinessDragons.com)
Become a Dragon Friend
Auntie Whisper reads the stories aloud, free for anyone who wants to curl up and listen. Dragon Friends hear new stories before they’re in a book, and the story behind each one, from me.
(button: Become a Dragon Friend → WhisperJoy.com) (until Substack is live: “Coming soon — join the list”)
The Story Behind the Story
Every Happiness Dragons story starts somewhere: a memory, a person, something I’ve been chewing on for fifty years. On my podcast I talk about where each story came from and the Pragmatic Idealism™ underneath it. It’s for the grown-ups who read a dragon story and think, wait, there’s more going on here.
(link: Listen on Substack →)
Pull Up a Chair
Sometimes you don’t need another book. You need someone to talk it through with. I offer private, one-to-one conversations for whatever’s on your mind: a change, a decision, or the question of what’s next. No pressure, no program. Just good, honest time with someone who’s been listening to people for a very long time.
(link: Let’s talk)
My Other Books
Before the dragons, there were these.
link: My Books