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Synopsis
This is a book about choice. Roberta Jean Bryant gives readers a wealth of support in choosing discovery and growth over the malaise of the perpetual recovery mode. She insists that it is dangerous to stop compulsive behaviors without experiencing other changes in thinking, feeling and relating to the world.
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Are some of your patrons self-improvement junkies? Do they want to stop "improving" and be themselves? If so, Bryant offers the self-improvement book to end all self-improvement books. In this narrative, she tells her story of recovery, relapse, and ultimately authentic change via mental, emotional, and spiritual discovery of her true self. Her thesis is that most self-improvement books, programs, and videos offer restrictive definitions of how we should look and feel, while not allowing for the natural and logical outcome of our genes and psyches (this criticism is ironic since her book is itself a self-improvement manual). Her creative process drills sprinkled throughout provide readers with reflective thought exercises. Libraries stocking self-improvement books may want this, while others might acquire it as the "enough is enough" book.
- Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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It's important to move beyond false goals such as being thin or not drinking to positive goals such as healthy relationship with food or enthusiastic sobriety. Then the next step is to focus on increasing positive involvement with life not recovery from depression, for instance (although depression can have a physical component), but recovery of self-esteem, joy, creativity, and well-being. Recovery of health, not recovery from illness, needs to be the goal. Occasionally a product I use and enjoy comes out in a "New and Improved" version; usually I don't like it as well. The older I get the less I want to be new and improved. More and more I seek simply to risk being fully who I am.
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