Reviews - How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

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How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

Nicole LePera

3.77 AVERAGE

alisyy's review against another edition

4.5

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

awyn's review against another edition

2.0

There's some good stuff in here, but the woo was too much for me.

radh's review against another edition

2.75

informative reflective slow-paced

This book definitely has some helpful and interesting points as well as topics that truly make you think in the fact on your own life and patterns. That said, there seems to be a lot of pseudo-science where the author cites a medical or scientific phenomenon and then an emotional/therapy idea that is seemingly related and tries to use the science to justify her view when in reality it's not actually correlated and does not prove her advice.
She is also heavily on the camp of "everything wrong with you in your relationships is because your parents sucked" and didn't really offer any other explanations of why we form the relationship patterns and expectations we have other than blaming parents, which I found very unhelpful.

bookedwithcas's review

3.0

Like many other reviews, I found the beginning of this book really great and helpful. However I found a lot of typos and missing words and couldn’t believe this version made it to print. I was really excited for this book but it definitely didn’t meet the expectations I had. Overall though, I got some helpful exercises and thought starters I could talk through with my therapist.