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Tag Archives: psychology
Mastering Chronic Pain: How Peak Resilience Unlocks Your Potential – Dr. Sahar Swidan and Dr. Matthew Bennett
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Living with chronic pain often feels like an uphill battle with no clear path forward. In Mastering Chronic Pain: How Peak Resilience Unlocks Your Potential, Dr. Sahar Swidan and Dr. Matthew Bennett provide a practical, science-backed roadmap … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Fitness, Non-fiction, Your Best Self
Tagged immune, inflamation, pain, psychology, science
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An UnderratedRead Revisited: A Pocketful Of Confidence: Self-help for the confidence-challenged – Nancy Lombardo
(Review and poem by Betty Jo Tucker) #CommissionsEarned A helpful book to live by, folks. filled with secrets and even jokes. “A Pocketful of Confidence” Includes great tips that make good sense. Easy reading and lots of fun Your life … Continue reading
Posted in Revisited
Tagged psychology, self-awareness, self-help
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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon – Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “In a short four years, QAnon metastasized from a fringe movement on anonymous message boards into a cultlike movement, with millions of followers around the world…and practically seized control of the Republican Party.” What actually … Continue reading
Posted in Revisited
Tagged conspiracy theories, psychology, QAnon, terrorism
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Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon – Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “In a short four years, QAnon metastasized from a fringe movement on anonymous message boards into a cultlike movement, with millions of followers around the world…and practically seized control of the Republican Party.” What actually is … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, History, Non-fiction, Politics and Social Justice, Reviewers' Top Picks, World Issues
Tagged conspiracy theories, psychology, QAnon, terrorism
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A Pocketful Of Confidence: Self-help for the confidence-challenged – Nancy Lombardo
(Review and poem by Betty Jo Tucker) A helpful book to live by, folks. filled with secrets and even jokes. “A Pocketful of Confidence” Includes great tips that make good sense. Easy reading and lots of fun Your life will … Continue reading
Posted in Non-fiction, Reviewers' Top Picks, Your Best Self
Tagged psychology, self-help
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The Illustrated Guide To Insanity – F. and Violet Mole
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” – Mark Twain “All art is neurosis” – Sigmund Freud The essence of these quotes is embodied in the single-frame cartoons in … Continue reading
Posted in More fiction
Tagged humor, insanity, psychology, short books, Sigmund Freud
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Mother Of – Lauren Coffin
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Meredith Mayes is facing the unthinkable. Her husband and son died in a car crash ten years ago. Now, her other son Percy has been penned with the nicknames “The Minor Street Monster”, “The Ann Arbor … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Dark/Sordid/Bizarre
Tagged mass murders, psychology, serial killers, short books
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Why are they still with him? An UnderratedRead revisited: The Trouble with Reality
(Reviewed by JD Jung) I am so perplexed on why so many people refuse to accept facts as reality. This has been eating away at me since the day after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. And why all of a … Continue reading
The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations – Jaime Kurtz
(Reviewed by JD Jung) What is happy travel? According to Jaime Kurtz, an Associate Professor of Psychology at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, it is “travel that is pleasurable, meaningful, and engaging. “ Sounds nice, but there can be … Continue reading
Posted in Non-fiction, Travel
Tagged psychology, travel, vacations
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The Mating Game: What Every Woman Should Know – Lyndon McGill
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) When it comes to relationships and how to maintain a healthy connection with someone, it is very hard to understand and to read the other person’s thoughts and feelings. This book, although written from a male perspective, … Continue reading
Posted in Non-fiction, Your Best Self
Tagged psychology, relationships
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