Deciding on Joy is an eloquent story of the journey from break up to breakthrough. It helps you to stand boldly on the precipice of your rebirth and prepare to fly. It equips you to draw on the best of your life to make the best of a devastation and create a brilliantly beautiful new life. It is roadmap for the rediscovery of the person who had the power all along to create the life she always dreamed of. Deciding on Joy is the Self-Help book for women who have experienced a breakup and need to create beauty from the ugliness to decide that they deserve the new life that awaits them! Deciding on Joy is Lemonade meets Eat Pray Love! Written on a magical terrace in Rome, Italy, it takes you on a journey of devastation, discovery and the determination to be joyful after heartbreak and loss. Like a shot of vodka and bold cigar, Dr. Stephanie D. Barnes shares her story straight with no chaser!