Kristen Brooke Beck is a writer, designer, and mentor dedicated to helping people create more happiness in their lives.

She is the creator of several websites, the most popular of which is Kristen's Guide (a practical guide to a happy life), and a contributing writer for many sites, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. She designs planners to help people put their daily and life goals on paper and writes fiction to inspire and entertain children.

Her formal education is focused on science, teaching, child development, and the arts. She has also studied religion, philosophy, psychology, and counseling. She personally has experienced depression, anxiety, panic disorder, emotional eating, self-destructive behaviors (like cutting), and obsessive-compulsive disorder and applies what she has learned from those experiences to helping others overcome their emotional challenges.