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The Shift – Part 1 – His life’s meaning

3 Nov 20219 Feb 2023

I've mentioned the late Dr. Wayne Dyer more than once. In fact, the first time I mentioned him just happens to be in my very first post for this blog!…

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Remember this one?* – Ordinarily Well

1 Dec 2020

Ordinarily Well by Peter D. Kramer is about antidepressants. More to the point, it is about if they work. Kramer is not merely a bystander… he is a psychiatrist and scholar.…

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Remember this one?* – Always Looking Up

18 Aug 2020

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.” ― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist How can you not love…

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Remember this one? – One of my favorite posts of all time! The Apothecary Museum

16 Jun 20209 Feb 2023

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We’d get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family-style restaurant that’s long-since closed) and…

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Remember this one? – Migraine

19 May 202019 May 2020

Ann Redfearn’s Migraine is one of my books with little post-it arrows sticking out, marking important pages. It’s not a big book like the Fibro book I talked about last month. It’s small…

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Remember this one? – “Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain”

21 Mar 2020

I remember the first time I mentioned to my doctor that I believe I have Fibromyalgia. She rolled her eyes. I stopped as I wrote that last part, about her…

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Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…

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Mind Over Mood – First, you must understand the problem

28 Sep 20199 Feb 2023

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.…

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Full Catastrophe Living – Reminds me of someone I know (Hint: it’s me!)

25 Aug 20199 Feb 2023

"This book is an invitation to the reader to embark upon a journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning, and healing." From page 1 of the Introduction- Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the…

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Romany Fortunes – Dabbling

23 Jul 20199 Feb 2023

I dabble. <<<<< There, I said it. I am open to pretty-much anything except the Ouiji board. That bad-boy is just evil. But I digress. I found Romany Fortunes by…

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Aromatherapy for Mind & Body – Scent from nature :-)

13 Jun 20199 Feb 2023

Aromatherapy for Mind & Body by David Schiller & Carol Schiller is the kind of book you go back to again and again. What I like about this particular book…

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Remember this one? – Overcoming Health Anxiety

3 May 20199 Feb 2023

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.…

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The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need – Hey! That’s what I was gonna name MY book!

10 Mar 20199 Feb 2023

If you're like me, you think I've already written about this book. In fact, I haven't. We are confusing it with this "last book" I wrote about in October, 2018. The…

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Remember this one?- A man named Turtle and his excellent website

6 Nov 2018

Al Turtle’s Relationship Wisdom will keep you busy for a few days… weeks… okay, months. To be clear from the onset, I do not know him personally nor am I getting…

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It’s my ONE-YEAR BLOGAVERSARY!

20 Oct 20189 Feb 2023

One year ago, I sat at my kitchen table, on this computer, and typed my first words as The Self-Help Whisperer™. Little did I know that the words "Who is…

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Undoing Depression – If only!

21 Sep 20189 Oct 2019

I love the subtitle of Richard O'Connor's Undoing Depression: "What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You"... because... it's always felt to me that there was something... some…

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This is Me – And me, too

15 Aug 20189 Oct 2019

“Honeybees are meaningful to me because technically they’re not supposed to be able to fly. We know they do, but in the 1930s, French scientists ‘proved’ they couldn’t. Their reasoning…

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Wherever You Go, There You Are – A Confession

12 Jul 20189 Oct 2019

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon…

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Self-help in Other Places – The Apothecary Museum

6 Jul 20189 Feb 2023

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We'd get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family style restaurant that's long-since closed)…

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Will I Ever Be Good Enough? – The mother-in-question is me

2 May 20189 Oct 2019

Do I notice the irony of the subtitle on this blog post? Why yes, yes I do. It's taken me a long time to write about Will I Ever Be Good…

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She’s Come Undone – Part II – What is normal?

25 Apr 20189 Feb 2023

I've just finished She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb for the second time. And for the second time, I am amazed that a man wrote this book with such clarity about a…

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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…

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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.…

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A Year to Live – Little book packs big punch

24 Nov 20179 Oct 2019

Stephen Levine passed away last year. Before he did, he worked tirelessly to help others approach their own deaths. He wrote best sellers about what he learned from other's travels and…

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