Bitter or Better: Your Choices After Divorce [Paperback]

Deborah Kidd Leporowski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2002

For the millions who are struggling with the aftermath of divorce, Dr. Leporowski's insights provide a private, economical program that will challenge you to use your divorce as the perfect opportunity to re-examine all aspects of your life and will convince you to leave bitterness, anger and resentment behind.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The book is a really excellent, straight-forward, but compassionate approach to healing after divorce." -- Dr. Pepper Schwartz, author

About the Author

Dr. Leporowski is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with a private practice in Palm Beach, Florida. A successful speaker and seminar presenter, Dr. Leporowski has successfully gone through a divorce herself.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: SelfHelpBooks.com (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587411105
• ISBN-13: 978-1587411106
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,331,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Counselor's Review, January 25, 2003

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Dr. Gary Lawrence (Phoenix, Az.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bitter or Better: Your Choices After Divorce (Paperback)

I have been a marriage and famil counselor for 22 years. After reading Dr. Leporowski's book, "Bitter or Better", I was so grateful that there was another counselor who understood the impact that bitterness has on people's lives.
She is right on in so many ways.
Throughout her book, she continues to position the reader to stop looking back at the offences that have occured, stop blaming the people of the past and start taking ownership of of their own lives and choices.
It is a must read for anyone who has traveled the rocky road of divorce.
Reading this book will open a whole new opportunity of living a life filled with contentment and peace.

Dr. Gary Lawrence
New Life Dynamics Counseling Center
4000 N. Central Ave., Suite 1710
Phoenix, Az. 85012
602-241-9725

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better IS Better, November 7, 2002

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Robert B. Palin (Tequesta, Fl USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bitter or Better: Your Choices After Divorce (Paperback)

After my divorce my life was bleek and my outlook even bleeker. This book allowed me to (1) wake up to the reality of divorce, (2) take responsibility for my life, and (3) gave practical and easy steps to follow. This book is easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to understand. (And easy on the pocketbook as well.) Now I can make choices and face the challenges associated with my new life with renewed enthusiasm and verve. Dr. Leporowski comes across as an intelligent, warm, trustworthy, and empathetic author. She certainly knows of what she speaks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The end is just another beginning......., February 8, 2003

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Keith A. Berfield, Ph.D. (Port St. Lucie, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bitter or Better: Your Choices After Divorce (Paperback)

Dr. Leporowski has written a slim but so useful book here that is bound to be of help to anyone dealing with the loss of a relationship. Her advice and suggestions are practical, thought provoking, and geared toward moving someone into the self-examination so necessary in order to move on into a new life following divorce. She takes special care to guide the reader through and past the traps of self-pity, blame, resentment and self-denigration without becoming critical or judgmental of those experiencing these all-too-common feelings when a marriage ends. I found her writing style to be refreshingly candid and almost conversational. Reading the book feels like sitting down with an old friend who is going to give you the "straight scoop" and not a lot of jargon or intellectual theorizing. She quite literally cuts to the "heart" of the matter! I've already started recommending this book to my psychotherapy patients facing divorce or its aftermath, encouraging them toward a more proactive self-examination and self-definition of who they are going to be NOW!