recovery – Page 2 – The Self-Help Whisperer®

A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 1

9 Mar 201915 Sep 2021

Something disappointing happened this last week. Well, disappointing is probably too light a word... it was ... kind of ... devistating. Through it, an interesting thing happened and it is…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Elf-help Books

7 Mar 20197 Mar 2019

Sometimes, you just need a tiny thing to feel better. These little books are written by different folks but are all illustrated by one folk: R. W. ALLEY. Elf-help books (Abbey…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Doing The Splurge!

3 Mar 201912 Aug 2020

I'm super-excited and super-scared. Why? Well, look up there ^^^^^ at my address line. Notice something? Or rather, the absence of something? The word "wordpress" is gone from my address.…

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…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – The Wall of Sh!t

24 Feb 201912 Aug 2020

I created the featured photo ten years ago... and I know why I did it (I was asked by my therapist to draw it) but I don't know why (why…

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

Secrets You Keep From Yourself – Unless you’re like me, in which case…

1 Feb 20199 Oct 2019

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. - The Wizard of Oz The entire premise of this book is wasted on me. Not that it's a bad book...…

From My Bookshelf

Toxic Friends – Falling to pieces

31 Jan 201920 Jul 2021

Men seem to kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it as glass and it goes to pieces. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Toxic Friends…

From My Bookshelf

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry -A Modern Spiritual Journey

26 Jan 20199 Oct 2019

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield is a book I'd never heard of and passed on the shelves at my fave thrift store a dozen times. For one…

Self-Help Whispering

Reviving Ophelia – Be everything, be nothing

25 Jan 2019

“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.” “Girls struggles with mixed messages: Be beautiful,…

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…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Recovery of Your Inner Child

23 Jan 2019

Genius is childhood recaptured. – Charles Baudelaire I took the photo of the book in the featured photo askew because there’s a sale ticket stuck to the right corner. I…

From My Bookshelf

Getting the Love You Want -It doesn’t just happen

9 Jan 20195 Jun 2021

“Helen and I like to think of two people in a conscious love relationship as companion stars. Each person is a unique individual ablaze with potential. One is just as…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Own It!

14 Dec 2018

Tabatha Coffey is a force of nature… and a force to be reckoned with! She is statuesque, beautiful and bitchier than Alexis Carrington (Colby). Also, she’s fabulous! I first saw her on the…

From My Bookshelf

Flying Without Fear – No Xanax needed. Maybe.

27 Nov 201814 Aug 2020

Flying Without Fear by Duane Brown, Ph.D. is SUCH a good book that I carried it on flights for about a year... okay, seven. It helped. A LOT. I wasn't…

Self-Help Whispering

In The News – Victims No Longer: For men and those who love them

21 Nov 201824 Mar 2021

I almost always write about books I've read in the past... peppered with a few new ones as I come across and read them. Today is an exception. I bought…

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…

Interviews

Interview – Joshua Black on loss, grief and dreaming

12 Oct 201812 Oct 2018

Joshua Black is a youthful, academic researcher and oddly enough (and at the very same time!) a wise, elder Sage. I called him a Grief-Dream Whisperer in my teaser about this…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – I miss her

5 Sep 2018

Today's featured photo is the one I'd hoped to use on my book jacket. You know, when I became a famous author, like Jessica Fletcher. (Seriously, look at the link,…

From My Bookshelf

Manage Your Online Reputation -Things change, so be there when they do

1 Sep 20189 Oct 2019

Look up Self-Counsel Press and favorite-it. Then order Manage Your Online Reputation by Tony Wilson. Self-Counsel Press is a division of International Self-Counsel Press Ltd. (same link as above) and…

From My Bookshelf

eat, pray, love – with a bow on top

4 Jul 20189 Oct 2019

eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a beautiful book. It is the kind of book that women gravitate toward, in a search to find themselves among the pages. Like…

From My Bookshelf

Migraine (Take control of your health naturally) – A mirror image?

26 Jun 20189 Oct 2019

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…

From My Bookshelf

The Heart of Remarriage – Do what I say, not what I did!

23 Jun 20189 Oct 2019

To be clear, I never thought I'd be part of these statistics: In the U.S., 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second, and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. Second marriages have difficulty for…

From My Bookshelf

Make the Connection – I bet you wondered when I’d get to this one!

19 Jun 20189 Oct 2019

Before we begin, allow me to answer your questions (that you haven't yet asked but are wondering about): Yes, I was an Oprah fan and waited for this book in…

Self-Help Whispering

Advice – Playing Doctor

13 Jun 201813 Jun 2018

After diving and delving into the underbelly of my life over the last little while, I feel compelled to give a caution. I am not a doctor. But someone who…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Unbelievable

10 Jun 201812 Aug 2020

Writing posts like yesterday's carries a certain terror vulnerability with it. I was so emotionally spent exhausted afterward. All I did was sit on the couch for hours, watching Dateline and eating…

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

A Million Little Pieces – A Million Little Lies

5 Jun 20189 Oct 2019

Who didn't want to gobble up A Million Little Pieces by James Frey when it came out in 2004? It was given the Oprah stamp of approval and has cupcake sprinkles…

If you have a medical or mental health emergency, call your doctor or 911.

Nothing contained in this blog (The Self-Help Whisperer®) is intended to establish or replace a physician-patient relationship or services.

If you are IN CRISIS and NEED TO TALK but don’t know who to call…

In USA: Mental Health America In Crisis? Call 1-800-273-TALK

Or elsewhere in the world – By Country, as compiled by Wikipedia

Suicide hotline numbers

Someone dies from suicide every 40 seconds

United States 1 800 273 8255

Canada 1 800 456 4566