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Category Archives: Your Best Self
If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your But’s: A No-Nonsense Guide to Happiness and Success – Mark L Wdowiak
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Are you stuck in your life? Are you bored with your job or want to connect with people? Do you just want more out of life? Mark L Wdowiak gives a convincing and motivational guide to … Continue reading
Posted in Your Best Self
Tagged responsibility, self-awareness, self-help
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Dark Chains – LaTasha “Tacha B.” Braxton
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Sometimes what we lose or do not achieve in life does not necessarily set us back. We strive forward and if in fact, we fail in receiving love, given the situation, we love back more. This … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Your Best Self
Tagged child abuse, family dysfunction, memoirs
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Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way -Kamin Mohammadi
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “ Now that I was living without all the relics of my former identity, there was a glimmer of something new. The heady possibly of freedom.” Kamin was thirty-two and seemed to have it all: a … Continue reading
Overcoming Anxiety & Depression: A step-by-step guide to overcoming anxiety and depression, lower stress and learn how to practice self-love and self-compassion … Affirmations, Happiness, stress management) – Lydia Francis
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) This is going to be a very short review. This is a very short book! My review copy was in PDF format. Take away the title page, the index, the forward and a last “keep … Continue reading
Posted in More non-fiction, Reviewers' Top Picks, Your Best Self
Tagged anxiety, depression, self-help, short books
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A Better Ten Commandments: A Guide to Living Life with and on Purpose – James Miller
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) I must admit I almost didn’t review this book. I was reading it and put it aside. Ironically, because it espouses tossing out the old Moses tablet-engraved rules, I thought at first that it was a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Philosophical reads, Your Best Self
Tagged Non-fiction, purpose, self-awareness
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15 Steps to Healthy Living: Learn how to naturally lose weight, gain energy and live a healthy enhanced lifestyle – Gordon Fimreite
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) 15 Steps to Healthy Living is a well-being, self-help book written primarily to assist people in naturally losing weight and living a healthy life by gaining the right energy. The author demonstrates 15 ways of achieving … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Fitness, How do I do that?, Your Best Self
Tagged health, nutrition, supplements
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The Art of Fully Living: 1 Man. 10 Years. 100 Life Goals Around the World – Tal Gur
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Tal Gur is a man who aims to live life to the fullest, and wants to help others do the same. He expresses this sentiment in his memoir/self-help book, The Art of Fully Living . The … Continue reading
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Tagged goals, memoir, self-help
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The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About: How I Let My Pornography Addiction Hurt People and Destroy Relationships – Joshua Shea
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Life can be so wonderfully posed, yet you can be struggling with the scariest demons behind closed doors and not know who to go to or how to deal with it. The Addiction Nobody Will Talk … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, pornography, self-help
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Food Pharmacy: A Guide to Gut Bacteria, Anti-Inflammatory Foods, and Eating for Health – Lina Aurell and Mia Clase
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Stig Bengmark, Md, Phd maintains that about 80% of our body’s immune system is located in the gastrointestinal tract. So accordingly we can influence our intestinal flora and the way we feel in the short and … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Fitness, Your Best Self
Tagged anti-inflammatory, fasting, super foods
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40 Day Shift: A Journey of Karma and Giving Back – Infinity Stone
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Rather than turn away from problems and wait for others to fix them, I need to uncover what can be done within my reach.” Infinity Stone works in insurance sales. She was raised Catholic where she … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical reads, Your Best Self
Tagged charity, New Age, New Thought, spirituality, volunteerism
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