Review: This book tells you what the others don't. Affirmations don't' work...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
If you're like me, you've bought tons of self-help books and they all talked about affirmations and positive thinking. I could never get those to work. In fact, they depressed me further. They just reminded how far I was from my goal.When I first picked up this book, I wasn't expecting much from it. After all, why would this book be any different than the ones by the big names? (And I've read most of those.)Boy, was I wrong!This book IS different. Though this author may not be as famous as some of the bigger names (yet) she definitely knows what she's talking about.This book looks at why affirmations and positive thinking don't work, and why they will never work. Then she offers practically alternatives to what works instead.There are some mental exercises included, (it wouldn't be much of a self-help book without them,) but absolutely none of that `positive thinking, say 50 affirmations a day, everything is unicorns and rainbows' trash that gives self-help books such a bad name.Truly great book.