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Your Happy Place

Readers share their favourite feel-good movies, books, songs and podcasts. Plus, Good’s Happiness playlist.

Compiled by Carolyn Enting

We asked you, our wonderful Good readers, to share your favourite happy books, movies, songs and podcasts, what makes you feel happy – and the results are in!

Big thanks to those who responded to our online survey. We believe you can never have too many suggestions for creating more feel-good moments and hope each of you makes more happy discoveries here.

Your fave feel-good films

· Love Actually · Mamma Mia · Downton Abbey · The Castle · Shirley Valentine · The Holiday · Grease · Labyrinth · Under the Tuscan Sun · Mrs Doubtfire · Four Weddings and a Funeral · The Sound of Music · Dirty Dancing · Bridget Jones’s Diary · 10 Things I Hate About You · Flashdance · Bridesmaids · Amélie · Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Pick-me-up TV shows

· Call the Midwife · Friends · Virgin River · Escape to the Chateau · Emily in Paris · Are You Being Served? · The Big Bang Theory · Taskmaster · Gilmore Girls · MasterChef

Top 30 happy playlist

Happy – Pharrell Williams · · Feeling Good – Nina Simone · I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown · Beautiful Day – U2 · Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gave & Tammi Terrell

· On Top of the World – Imagine Dragons · Always on My Mind – Tiki Taane · Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves

· Sunshine on the Water – Tama Waipara · Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen · No Matter What – Boyzone · Uptown Girl – Billy Joel · I’m Still Standing – Elton John · Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond · Cover Me in Sunshine – P!nk, Willow Sage Hart

· You Are Everything to Me – The Real Thing

· Woke Up Late – Drax Project · Give Me One Reason – Tracy Chapman · Better – Khalid · Midnight Sky – Miley Cyrus · April Sun in Cuba – Dragon · Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go – Wham! · Can’t Stop The Feeling! – Justin Timberlake · Cecilia – Simon and Garfunkel · Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra · I Am Woman – Helen Reddy · Beautiful – Carole King · It’s a Beautiful Day – Michael Bublé · Mysterious Girl – Peter Andre · Simply the Best – Tina Turner

12 feel-good reads

· Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon · Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert · The Practice of Happiness by John Kehoe · A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson · The Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley · A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle · Dear Fatty by Dawn French · You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero · Breath by James Nestor · Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty · Infinite Self by Stuart Wilde · Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Podcasts to uplift and inspire

· 11:11 with Rachel Hunter and Emma Mildon · Straight Up with Niva and Beatrice · Self Love with Kim Morrison · Deliciously Ella with Ella Mills · Happier with Gretchen Rubin · The Happy Saver with Ruth · Feel Better Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee · Sattva Soul with Celine Wallace · Thrive TV Show with Lauren Parsons · The Girls Uninterrupted with Brodie Kane, Caitlin Marett and Gracie Taylor · No Filter with Mia Freedman · Reiki Radio with Yolanda Williams · Happy Place with Fearne Cotton · Hamish & Andy with Hamish Blake and Andy Lee · SmartLess with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett · Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware · Oprah Super Soul with Oprah Winfrey · Unlocking Us with Brené Brown · The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo · Infinite Potential with Deepak Chopra · Huberman Lab with Dr Andrew Huberman · Toni and Ryan with Toni Lodge and Ryan Jon · Stitch Wish Radio with Christi Johnson

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