A sensually specific guide to rolling emotions to find the bright side of the road.
Psychotherapist Andrade offers a manual for practically applying emotional medicine—dropping awareness from the mind to the body in order to experience the flow of emotions.
Rather than letting emotions—namely, the big six: sadness, anger, fear, happiness, surprise and disgust—play out their endless mental war games, Andrade suggests that readers tap into their movement and expression as these emotions circulate throughout the body. In the body, Andrade explains, emotions go through a cycle of buildup, discharge and release, often only minutes in duration—compare that to the standard crying jag unleashed by the noggin—after which the tears stop and there’s a focus on release, a sense of feeling good, because the body is designed to return to a state of well-being (and, frankly, tears by the bushel are more enervating than cathartic). Andrade’s presentation of emotional medicine is so sure-footed and attended by so many specific instructions on how to put her ideas into effect that readers will easily discern if her path is theirs as well (despite the occasional circular reasoning: “Once Lillian learned to change the way she felt by refusing to allow thoughts to keep her continually agitated, she began to calm down”). Certainly the meat and potatoes of the work are the ways in which Andrade guides readers to live comfortably in their bodies: treating the body as a spiritual and emotional ally; communicating with the body through the language of sensation (including a terrific cheat sheet on what those sensations just might be saying); handling certain anxiety and depression issues through attention to what’s being put into the body; the body cues that reveal when it’s time to stop an emotional outpouring. Throughout, there are “action tips” on how readers can tune into their bodies, from top-down body checks to mapping where particular emotions are and how they express themselves.
A sensually specific guide to rolling emotions to find the bright side of the road.Pub Date: Sept. 20, 2011
ISBN: 978-0615517087
Page Count: 300
Publisher: Tenacity Press
Review Posted Online: Dec. 14, 2011
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.
Sisters work together to solve a child-abandonment case.
Ellie and Julia Cates have never been close. Julia is shy and brainy; Ellie gets by on charm and looks. Their differences must be tossed aside when a traumatized young girl wanders in from the forest into their hometown in Washington. The sisters’ professional skills are put to the test. Julia is a world-renowned child psychologist who has lost her edge. She is reeling from a case that went publicly sour. Though she was cleared of all wrongdoing, Julia’s name was tarnished, forcing her to shutter her Beverly Hills practice. Ellie Barton is the local police chief in Rain Valley, who’s never faced a tougher case. This is her chance to prove she is more than just a fading homecoming queen, but a scarcity of clues and a reluctant victim make locating the girl’s parents nearly impossible. Ellie places an SOS call to her sister; she needs an expert to rehabilitate this wild-child who has been living outside of civilization for years. Confronted with her professional demons, Julia once again has the opportunity to display her talents and salvage her reputation. Hannah (The Things We Do for Love, 2004, etc.) is at her best when writing from the girl’s perspective. The feral wolf-child keeps the reader interested long after the other, transparent characters have grown tiresome. Hannah’s torturously over-written romance passages are stale, but there are surprises in store as the sisters set about unearthing Alice’s past and creating a home for her.
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.Pub Date: March 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-345-46752-3
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2005
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.Pub Date: June 15, 1951
ISBN: 0316769177
Page Count: -
Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951
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