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From My Bookshelf

Mind Over Mood – First, you must understand the problem

28 Sep 20199 Oct 2019
Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger, PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD is the perfect self-help book, if by self-help you mean actually doing stuff to ... you know...  help yourself.…
Interviews

Interview – Patte McCarthy: Artful Giving

22 Sep 2019
You first heard about Patte McCarthy HERE in my shameless teaser. Two things about that... Do you enjoy reading my teasers as much as I enjoy writing them? I love…
From My Bookshelf

The Gifts of Imperfection – The sub-title says it all!

31 Aug 20199 Oct 2019
Sub-title: Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are. There. You now know everything you need to know about this book - and…
From My Bookshelf

Girl, Stop Apologizing – Sorry, not sorry

16 Aug 20199 Oct 2019
“Women are taught that to be a good woman you need to be good for other people. If your kids are happy, then you're a good mom. If your husband…
Interviews

Interview – Carol Hunt: A spicy beauty!

24 Jul 201924 Jul 2019
You first heard about Carol Hunt in my shameless teaser here. She is a beautiful woman - inside and out - and is a walking, talking example of what she believes…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – The Emotionally Abused Woman

19 Jul 201928 Oct 2022
Note: "Remember this one?" = Posts that you may have missed the first time around. This post was originally posted by me on February 13, 2018 The Emotionally Abused Woman by…
From My Bookshelf

Women Food and God – And Banana Bread

17 Jul 20199 Oct 2019
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – I’m Looking Through You

28 May 2019
Jennifer Finley Boylan is an amazing woman! Before picking up this audio book at the library, I’d never heard of her. I listened to it and then – by a…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Overcoming Health Anxiety

3 May 20193 May 2019
I can’t talk about this book without talking about myself. I don’t have a light case or dabble in it… I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Fearless Living

18 Apr 201918 Apr 2019
Many years ago, I attended an in-service at the college where I worked. It was one of those “pick one of these and attend or don’t bother coming back to…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Journaling

28 Mar 2019
I’ve briefly talked about journaling in several posts so far. This will be focusing on it! I am a journal fanatic… although… it goes in fits and starts. When I’m…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – When Parents Hurt

22 Mar 20195 Aug 2019
When Parents Hurt by Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. is a book of ouchies. Big ones. By the time you need it, there is a history… a dance… that has been going…
From My Bookshelf

A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 2

12 Mar 20199 Oct 2019
This (probably/obviously) follows up A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 1. The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner is an amazing book and program. That said, I have a confession... and it pains…
From My Bookshelf

Healing Crystals and Gemstones – Healer or Amateur Geologist, you’ll like it!

25 Feb 20199 Oct 2019
My friend Bonney presented this book to me in the year I'd like to forget, 2014. I know this because she inscribed it: "To my gem of a friend"... and…
Interviews

Interview – Kaden Ferretti: Friend, neighbor, and lighthouse

8 Feb 201911 Feb 2019
You first heard about my friend (and community-support-powerhouse) Kaden in this shameless teaser. Readers, I have shared so often that everyone you meet has something to teach you, if you…
From My Bookshelf

After the Affair – I hope you NEVER need this book!

6 Feb 20199 Oct 2019
“Dr. Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity, wisdom, spirit, and heart. This is an extremely helpful and healing book—a gift to us all.” —Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Style Statement

29 Jan 2019
If you enjoy looking at lovely books, Style Statement by Carrie McCarthy & Danielle LaPorte is that kind of book. If you love doing quizzes and exercises to find out about yourself,…
From My Bookshelf

The Art of Possibility – It’s like music for all humankind

28 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
“I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.” ― Benjamin Zander…
From My Bookshelf

Skinny Bitch – No-Nonsense or No-Way-José ?

24 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
"So coffee equals fat cells. P.S. It also makes your breath smell like ass." - Skinny Bitch Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin is the spawn of Satan. Just…
From My Bookshelf

White Hot Truth – “If liberation is a chore, then you’re not really free.”

21 Jan 20199 Oct 2019
I want to meet the author of today's selection, White Hot Truth. Danielle LaPorte seems like a really neat person! I watched her video about this book on her site…
Interviews

Interview – Penny Rose Mixhau: Creator, Philosopher, Human

31 Dec 20181 Jan 2019
You first heard about Penny in my shameless teaser about her. As I was putting this post together, I stumbled while writing the headline. Penny Rose Mixhau on Being a…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Revolution From Within

20 Dec 2018
The feminist speaks… and her voice has been heard the world over. She is an inspiration! Gloria Steinem is famous for her protests, speeches, and even her good looks. Oh yes,…
From My Bookshelf

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda – What have I missed?

17 Nov 20189 Oct 2019
The sentence usually begins, "If only..." - Freeman & DeWolf Ain’t it the truth? You know what makes me laugh? How, up until about a year ago, I thought that…
From My Bookshelf

Many Miles to Go – How to succeed in business & life

7 Nov 20189 Oct 2019
Do you know who Brian Tracy is? I actually didn't until recently... and I can't believe it! After being in newspaper advertising sales for many years... and a couple of years…
From My Bookshelf

My Age of Anxiety – … and footnotes. Lots of footnotes!

2 Nov 20189 Oct 2019
“It is a fact—I say this from experience—that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.” ― Scott Stossel My…
From My Bookshelf

Elizabeth Taylor: A Passion for Life – Wisdom & Fluff

24 Oct 201823 Jan 2021
"I believe people are like rocks formed by the weather. We're formed by experience, by heartache, by grief,  by mistakes, by guilt, by shame--all the things that psychiatrists would like…
From My Bookshelf

Boundaries (Where you end and I begin) – Do it now!

22 Oct 20189 Oct 2019
There are many, many books on Boundaries. Most are very good. Just to give you an idea of how many there are... here is a list from amazon.com (hint: it…
Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – From Panic to Power

9 Oct 2018
From Panic to Power by Lucinda Bassett begins with a nice ego-pump for those of us who struggle with panic and anxiety. It’s good news! We have above average intelligence, are…
Interviews

Interview – Michelle JT Ziemann on surrounding yourself with what you love

8 Sep 20188 Sep 2018
You first heard about Michelle Ziemann about two weeks ago in this introductory (and shameless teaser) post. If I continue the love-fest in this introduction, I'll embarrass Michelle - and…
Interviews

Teaser for Upcoming Interview – Fly High Michelle

26 Aug 20183 Feb 2019
Welp, I've chosen my second interviewee and her name - in case you missed the obvious reference in the blog title - is Michelle. Like my Lucy in the Sky…
From My Bookshelf

The Road Less Traveled -The Great Truth

25 Jul 20189 Oct 2019
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  An excerpt from the poem, "The Road Not…
From My Bookshelf

Loving What Is – 4 Questions

24 Jul 20189 Oct 2019
When I argue with reality, I lose - but only 100% of the time. - Byron Katie Byron Katie has the coolest name, I think. Cool name aside, she also…
From My Bookshelf

Down Came the Rain – A specific depression

14 Jul 20189 Oct 2019
I did not have postpartum depression. When I was having children (in the early 1980s) it (postpartum depression) wasn't "a thing". Except, of course, it WAS. We just didn't know…
From My Bookshelf

The New Codependency – I barely got over the old one!

6 Jun 20186 Apr 2020
Melody Beattie is an extraordinary and famous author - for good reason. She's written fifteen books but her first one -  Codependent No More  - was a groundbreaking work. It was published…
From My Bookshelf

Radical Feminist Therapy – A textbook

28 May 20189 Oct 2019
I found Radical Feminist Therapy by Bonnie Burstow in a thrift shop. I suspect it was a textbook for Women's Studies in a college or University. There were a couple…
Self-Help Whispering

What do you think? – On Intuition

24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018
I have two books on intuition that are favorites: Practical Intuition by Laura Day and The Intuitive Way by Penney Peirce. For years... if you were like me... you believed…
From My Bookshelf

The Emotionally Abused Woman – And so my work began

13 Feb 201828 Oct 2022
The Emotionally Abused Woman by Beverly Engel, M.F.C.C. is among the classics in my bookshelf.  When choosing books to write about, I passed it over a dozen times. It was almost…
From My Bookshelf

I’m Looking Through You – Haunted

1 Feb 20189 Oct 2019
Jennifer Finley Boylan is an amazing woman! Before picking up this audio book at the library, I'd never heard of her. I listened to it and then - by a…
From My Bookshelf

Overcoming Health Anxiety – I told you I was sick

23 Jan 20189 Oct 2019
I can't talk about this book without talking about myself. I don't have a light case or dabble in it... I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…
Self-Help Whispering

Being Erica – Regrets & Time Travel

18 Jan 201825 Feb 2019
If you are not living, working and/or watching television in Canada, you may not have heard of Being Erica. More's the pity. When it was on television, I didn't watch…
From My Bookshelf

Fearless Living – Throw off that cloak!

17 Jan 20189 Oct 2019
Many years ago, I attended an in-service at the college where I worked. It was one of those "pick one of these and attend or don't bother coming back to…
Self-Help Whispering

Journaling – Write on!

12 Jan 201812 Jan 2018
I've briefly talked about journaling in several posts so far. This will be focusing on it! I am a journal fanatic... although... it goes in fits and starts. When I'm…

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