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KAREN SALMANSOHN is a happiness and wellness research geek and the author of numerous best-selling life-improvement books (with more than one million copies sold), including Instant Calm: 2-Minute Meditations to Create a Lifetime of Happy. She has studied to be a yoga and meditation teacher and also founded the popular NotSalmon video courses, offering video training on happiness, love, and wellness. She’s a regular columnist for Oprah.com, Psychology Today, CNN, MSN, Yahoo, AOL,  and Huffington Post; and has appeared on The Today Show, The View, CNN, CNBC, and been featured in numerous publications including the New York Times, Business Week, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, Marie Claire, Fast Company, InStyle, Self, ELLE, and the New Yorker.

Karen and her family live in New York. Feel free to say a friendly howdy to her at www.notsalmon.com.