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slow-paced
I started this book because it was recommended in a list I had read over the summer. Pretty soon after, I thought I should stop. I don't shy away from self-help, not even the woo woo kind, but this book was getting under my skin pretty much right away and that's generally not a good sign.
The author is telling her own story and applying the learnings she talks about to her own life situation, which in her case is dealing with her body/weight issues so a lot of the examples she gives are around that which normally I'd be interested in except at some point she says she cleaned out her car and then dropped 10 pounds. At which point I stopped the audio book. (If i were reading a book, I might have thrown it out the window.) I understand she was trying to make a point but no, just no.
So I stopped.
And then, I decided to tackle it again (honestly, not sure why.) And here's what I will say: I wish the author hadn't narrated this book. I think that was one of the things that didn't connect with me. The narration experience is a big deal on audio. I also wish she would have brought a few other examples from other people because here's the thing, even though this is totally the author's journey, there's very little sharing around the actual journey. There's a lot of here's where i was and here's where i am now, isn't that awesome!? And here's what I now believe. But none of "here's what helped me get there." She even says that she can't tell us get there but man once we do, it's awesome.
Ugh.
She didn't even really help me figure out how to design my own self-love experiment. She didn't highlight all the things she tried. The journey itself felt like it was completely missing from the book, for me. So then it became just her examples of her negative thinking and then her awesome accomplishments. Which fell flat without the growth curve in the middle.
I did like some of her principles and i also liked her letter about what she learned. I think this book had potential and I know every book is a labor of love and it's hard work, I don't want to discount that hard work. It might be a super-useful, life-changing book for someone else. It just wasn't for me.
The author is telling her own story and applying the learnings she talks about to her own life situation, which in her case is dealing with her body/weight issues so a lot of the examples she gives are around that which normally I'd be interested in except at some point she says she cleaned out her car and then dropped 10 pounds. At which point I stopped the audio book. (If i were reading a book, I might have thrown it out the window.) I understand she was trying to make a point but no, just no.
So I stopped.
And then, I decided to tackle it again (honestly, not sure why.) And here's what I will say: I wish the author hadn't narrated this book. I think that was one of the things that didn't connect with me. The narration experience is a big deal on audio. I also wish she would have brought a few other examples from other people because here's the thing, even though this is totally the author's journey, there's very little sharing around the actual journey. There's a lot of here's where i was and here's where i am now, isn't that awesome!? And here's what I now believe. But none of "here's what helped me get there." She even says that she can't tell us get there but man once we do, it's awesome.
Ugh.
She didn't even really help me figure out how to design my own self-love experiment. She didn't highlight all the things she tried. The journey itself felt like it was completely missing from the book, for me. So then it became just her examples of her negative thinking and then her awesome accomplishments. Which fell flat without the growth curve in the middle.
I did like some of her principles and i also liked her letter about what she learned. I think this book had potential and I know every book is a labor of love and it's hard work, I don't want to discount that hard work. It might be a super-useful, life-changing book for someone else. It just wasn't for me.
This book has some good tidbits of information especially if you have struggled with your weight/confidence in your past. I enjoyed the information and the stories that Shannon shared with us, but there was a lot repetition throughout the book. Overall I liked it but it could have definitely been shorter.
Now I know why some people don’t like “self-help” books. I didn’t get anything concrete out of this book and it just felt like a stream-of-consciousness blog post that went on forever. Oof
This book has some good tidbits of information especially if you have struggled with your weight/confidence in your past. I enjoyed the information and the stories that Shannon shared with us, but there was a lot repetition throughout the book. Overall I liked it but it could have definitely been shorter.
The tone of this one never really clicked with me. There is some good stuff in here, and the author seems like a lovely person, but it didn't seem very cohesive. Felt heavy on fluff, light on anything practical. But it will probably work better for some people than it did for me.
I've been in a "self - help reading funk" lately and this is the first that really felt like it could actually help me.
I related a lot with the author, being an overweight, overstressing and overworrying person myself. And, while a lot of times I would stop and question the whole "love and the universe will love you too", it gave out a lot of good advices I can put in pratice.
I related a lot with the author, being an overweight, overstressing and overworrying person myself. And, while a lot of times I would stop and question the whole "love and the universe will love you too", it gave out a lot of good advices I can put in pratice.