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Making Peace with Yourself: Turning Your Weaknesses into Strengths

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This is a terrific book--it's changing my life so that I'm becoming less critical of myself.I think I'm becoming a happier person because of it.

I also found some of the reasons why I feel rushed, overworked, and tend to run late. Very eye-opening!!!

This is a very compassionate book of loving and accepting oneself. I plan to read this book over and over!

The authors write in a loving and caring manner. I am undergoing a lot of self-growth by reading books by these authors. I have read another book which they helped write, and I have just purchased my third book by them.

I highly recommend this book, and other books which they have written.

I have had this book for years. I pull it out and refer to it often. It has given me the 'permission' to like myself and move on with my life. I highly recommend this book!

I was disappointed with the book. My daughters and I read it and all of thought it lacked something. I can't say we grew from anything written in the book. There's better books out there to help find peace within.

This is a rare, life-changing book. "I'm afraid of getting hurt again". "When I look in the mirror, I'm never quite satisfied". "I can't stand criticism". "I'm always feeling tense and rushed". "I wish I could be happier". Do any of these sound familiar? Aren't they exactly the kinds of weaknesses that keep us from enjoying our lives to the fullest? This wise and compassionate book can help you confront these problems, perhaps for the first time in your life. Through a series of exercises, case studies, and personal growth techniques, you'll learn to analyse your weakness, and most imprtant, strip it of the power it has over you. "Making Peace With Yourself" is one of life's toughest challenges, but the rewards will be tremendous.

I enjoyed the ideas this author had to help with certian aspects or problems. But, only one section of the book related to me. I finished it in about an hour.

To give a negative review of this book would be absurd to the extent I went through it via increments and a bit of skipping around. The author quotes Christ, encourages laughter and taking one's self lightly by avoiding overly adult morose stoicism. Peace is a big thread throughout and I recommend anyone, that's all who may read this, to get a used copy for chump change and take look see. It is in present non reactive peace that we can most rightly conclude that our lives ought not be seen or wrongly perceived as ruined. That's the hook and the bait that pulls the dead fish of our pasts from a septic tank we gleaned as peaceful of a pond we might well deserve to ponder. The book deals with killing lies from the past so as to shed light on the reality of the present which isn't as much a cacophony as our minds, not any music, tends to predictably fall back to and fro to. Moreover, the author suggests music, all kinds of music to help lighten a load as well as laughter not only at movies and such, but at ourselves. We are at present not able nor were assigned by God to ensure the world spins synchronously on its axis. The tedium to "to do" list and predictability is a pot hold waiting to be stepped, if not almost as though one has been or is addicted to pain, problems, and drama. In fact, the book discusses such absurdity and does not stay fixed in the past to cure the ills of the present. Why? The present, right now, has no ills until we demand and purposefully ruminate on the "only ifs" and "what ifs" that do not exist at this very second. Grief isn't largely addressed so I cannot speak to this and the book claims not compunction to helping heal the loss of anyone other than the real self, or reader who cannot or more likely, willfully chooses he or she does not merit happiness, joy, and childhood mirth. It is the beating down insufferably of the self which, in the book, rightfully viewed as egregious self-absorption and self-pity. In the book, the author refers to a G.K. Chesterton adage which states, "Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly." So, to all the tilted halos and those who "feel" they are too shame-filled to be full of a joy experienced at one time in the past, a look at this book with a mind open to everything and yet not attached to anything or anyone might do some good.

The question this book seems to ask is not how one stays pulled down by their past, but HOW they allow it to continue. Indeed, by book's end you may realize the illusion and lies bought into and become aware of the poison spread to those about you by demanding to be right, if even DEAD right. The simplicity of the book doesn't dumb down the message, but rather clarifies that is this simplicity we oft times miss in efforts "try hard enough" to earn. Grace, in short, isn't earned but simply accepted. In summary, the book posits this: "Get over yourself and you'll see the value of who you are and have always been. Live now, not later.

Brian G. Jett, MRC, JSOCCP
Author, Musician, Instructor