A positive manual for restructuring one’s thoughts and habits to increase wellness.
This debut self-improvement guide defines an exhaustive list of common dysfunctions in daily life and offers a series of steps to handle them.
Psychologist Sherman delivers a book that will allow readers to quickly understand underlying psychological difficulties and work to resolve them. In the first part of this guide, she provides short chapters defining common issues to help readers isolate the sources of their problems, such as personality disorders, trust issues, bullying parents, codependency in relationships, and attachment problems. She then illustrates these dynamics by using anecdotes about her own patients. The stories also skillfully illustrate common interpersonal relationship issues, such as shaming and codependence. Next, the author provides a nine-step guide to accomplishing major changes in perspective in order to overcome the dysfunctions listed. These steps include self-soothing, developing boundaries, using biofeedback, and conquering one’s fears, among others. The book is successful in providing a path to self-improvement by focusing inward, eliminating negative thoughts, and listening to an inner voice that can clearly state boundaries, desires, needs, and decisions. For example, in the self-soothing section, the author effectively provides practical options, such as getting in a car to take a ride when one is stuck in a house with too many people. Even readers without any access to therapy may employ the solutions here, which make the book as a whole a potentially valuable resource for those seeking change on their own. Another highlight of the book is its section on strategies for improving one’s “inner-language,” such as by saying “I have a little setback” rather than “I am depressed.” At times, the explanations of common problems and dysfunctions can be overly general and quick. However, the heart of the book lies in its strategies, which readers can instantly put into action.
A positive manual for restructuring one’s thoughts and habits to increase wellness.Pub Date: Aug. 30, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-9861534-0-2
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Concord Publishing
Review Posted Online: April 25, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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