Dale Berkebile Jr.

Love the topic but NOT happy with the Narator

Revisado: 04-03-25

I study all things related to wellness, self-care, and psychology. I’ve been working on professional trainings in positive psychology and think it is important to understand trauma. I’ve been exploring somatic therapy for about 18 months. Anyhow, Levin is an expert I was excited to study as his work seems the foundation of so much work, ideas, or practices I find powerful.

I had a hard time getting through the audiobook even though I am very excited about the topic. I got about halfway through and then every time I try to start up again, it’s been tough to get through 5 minutes without turning things off or having things just become background noise disconnecting me from learning or comprehension or even awareness.

I’d love to try this book with another narrator and potentially even Peter reading it.

I might try the physical book. I think there is great topics covered in the book but I’m afraid if I do get through the book, it will not be something I recall or share as a powerful book that’s moved me or changed my life.

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Embracing and Supporting the little boy within

Revisado: 03-10-25

I’ve always heard about the child within. I never knew how much the wounded child needs our acknowledgment, our ability to listen and hear their story, and offer loving support, care, and way to be safe and release their sorrows and suffering to us, for us. It changes our life offering support and safety to our child. I am here for you and here to release our suffering together. What a powerful book this is on mindfully supporting our wounded child and/or our generational trauma. Together we heal.

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Triggering

Revisado: 11-15-24

This was a very hard read for me. I read a lot of similar books but the constant disgusting behavior of this movement started overshadowing Christianity in general which isn’t fair.

The author is skilled and well researched knowledgeable in this topic. I thought the narration was fine. For me it just was a painful read we did in my book club.

I really have a book be painful to finish, read, and discuss but this one was the worst reading experience I may have ever had.

I share only to say…
Please be warned if you have any religious baggage or background in ultra conservative Christian spaces. This may be disturbing.

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Truly good start for BEGINNERS!

Revisado: 01-31-24

I’ve been wanting to get into investing for years. I’ve read a few popular investing books. I’ve found it very overwhelming and intimidating to just get started.

This book has been great to gain a great understanding of investing. On first listen I’m fired up to get my broker account set up and start making a few small investments to get started. I feel confident I’ll be trading/investing within the next week or two with a focus on learning and testing a few ideas to find my path.

I will be listening and relistening to this book several times to keep learning and growing my skillset with a little experience under my belt.

If you are new to investing, I highly recommend this book as a great starting point to figure out how to confidently get started for a long life of trading and investing. I know this book is the one that has empowered me to get started investing.

I should also say… it is extremely rare for me to give a 5 star rating because I always believe there is room for growth. This book on first listen has me so confident to get started and I’ve wanted to do this for ages so I thought if it can move me to action, that’s a pretty powerful book.

Happy investing, my friends!
May you find a future filled with a ton of success!!

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Holding up a mirror we all must look at to see who we truly are.

Revisado: 11-30-23

Isabel Wilkerson has done a tone of research and shared her own lives experiences to help us look deeply at who we are as Americans. This is a difficult truth of our history but the awareness can set us free and help us do better.

What’s the Angelou quote? When we know better, we do better.

Sadly it may have took a time where democracy was in danger for our society to just start opening our eyes to the long history that could push our democracy to the breaking point. Honestly… that is privilege.

Wilkerson’s analogies and writing style was great to clearly tackle such a challenging topic. Finding out how similar the US is to India and the German Nazi regime is surprising and frightening.

This should be required reading in schools. I am reading it with my book club and we’ve been going slow with powerful discussions each week. Reading this in a group and discussing helps absorb the content from different perspectives and from different lives experiences which opens even more insight into this topic.

If this was done in schools maybe we’d create a generation willing and able to put these ideas to rest, clean up and fix this old house and catapult this country into a new healthy direction.

I highly recommend this book to all Americans but also anyone interested in understand how caste is built and how it functions.

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Mostly good

Revisado: 10-07-23

In the sample audio this seemed like it would be a great set of meditations on a deeper “love” as a topic. Digging into self-love and self-compassion as a way to love ourselves and all the world deeper.

Deepek offers some great wisdom in this audio, but there where parts that left me confused and disconnected as “love” started moving into lust and/or craving and religious territory a bit which was a turnoff for me. It felt a bit Christian focused which isn’t bad in some ways, but love to me is bigger than any one faith and tying the lust portion in felt odd or misaligned.

M. Scott Peck has a great definition of live that I like - “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”

He brings spiritual into the topic, but it seems a bit more inclusive of all cultures than just Christianity to me - which I like.

I was not looking for expanding my faith in a religion but rather seeking a way to live bigger than individual connections. There is some of this, but others areas felt like he was casting a wider net to serve identities instead of excluding identities and ego to just BE love and loving.

I gave this audio a 3 star rating because there are some great parts that I enjoyed. The parts that felt misaligned for me though with probably limit my relistening to this audio. Meditations work with repetition and just being present with them. I’m not sure I can do that as I feel I need to be guarded in some areas due to misalignment.

The music and pace and overall tone is really well done but the since these were long meditations including everything and the kitchen sink you are unable to easily pick and choose sections that are great and skip parts that may not suite your needs.

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Thay’s teachings are wonderful, Sounds True interruptions a bit frustrating.

Revisado: 05-29-23

This recording is a good example of how wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh’s (Thay’s) retreats and teachings are. The recording is from a retreat and some may not enjoy that however if you’ve ever been to a Plum Village retreat it takes you to the event.

I have not been able to see Thay in person at a retreat, but programming like this help me learn, grow, and experience him and his work. It is really amazing.

My biggest frustration with this recording is that Sounds True had to put what feels like mini advertisements between each chapter and over the sounds of the bell, chanting, singing which really disrupts the flow of a true retreat. The bell, chanting and songs are so important in the Order of Interbeing that this really feels disjointed and that maybe Sounds True is misaligned with their practices.

Overall I’m a fan of Sounds True’s work, but this was difficult as I wanted to stop, listen closely and breath in these moments. I did, but I was surprised at chapter promotions over the bell.

There is so much wisdom in Thay’s work that this is a great addition to his books and other teachings. If you are new to retreats or curious about how Thay lead retreats, this is a great listen.

I really enjoyed it. I will relisten to this program again in the future and recommend it. I hope you give it a try as we need more people practicing his wisdom as he continues on through each of us.

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Amazing Story. Amazing Practice!

Revisado: 01-23-23

It is hard to imagine a day in the life of a death row inmate from outside those painful walls. Hearing how a death row inmate can become well versed in Buddhist practices and serve others is truly inspirational and should be a guide for all of us to be better for our fellow brothers and sisters and more loving to all living things.

I loved this book and look forward to reading more about Jarvis. His Finding Freedom book turned me on to this one, which is also great, and now I’m going to read That Bird Has My Wings which I’m betting will continue this great story and path to enlightenment and freedom for Jarvis and for his readers. Powerful stuff.

I would love to work within the prison system one day to give hope to new inmates to find freedom within. Instead of holding up the punishment only focus, reform and lifting people up could be a brighter future for the prison system.

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I was hoping for more - the audio flow was bad

Revisado: 08-31-21

I grew up on Bruce Lee. I’ve been studying life, psychology, the Tao, Buddhism, zen, and mindfulness for many years (nearly a decade). I was excited when I found this book as it seemed to align with many of my passions.

This book had mad bad reviews and I bought it anyhow. I’d review the print version to see if the wisdom is valuable and you could cut the fluff. The audiobook seemed to have content repeated multiple times for each chapter which played like this was the first time the producers ever heard an audiobook and they were making up how to do it as they recorded it. It seems they avoided best practices and it was difficult to keep listening. I almost quit a dozen times over months. I keep going, but it was painful and NOT enlightening. Because of my struggles to get through things, I am not sure there were any nuggets of wisdom I am taking away as I do in typical books I read. I often get several solid ideas from books like this.

I’d recommend trying this book in it’s print version instead of listening to this audiobook. As a matter of fact, I’d recommend getting it from the library instead of buying it and if reading the physical book feels good from the library, then buy it.

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I was hoping for more - the audio flow was bad

Revisado: 08-31-21

I grew up on Bruce Lee. I’ve been studying life, psychology, the Tao, Buddhism, zen, and mindfulness for many years (nearly a decade). I was excited when I found this book as it seemed to align with many of my passions.

This book had mad bad reviews and I bought it anyhow. I’d review the print version to see if the wisdom is valuable and you could cut the fluff. The audiobook seemed to have content repeated multiple times for each chapter which played like this was the first time the producers ever heard an audiobook and they were making up how to do it as they recorded it. It seems they avoided best practices and it was difficult to keep listening. I almost quit a dozen times over months. I keep going, but it was painful and NOT enlightening. Because of my struggles to get through things, I am not sure there were any nuggets of wisdom I am taking away as I do in typical books I read. I often get several solid ideas from books like this.

I’d recommend trying this book in it’s print version instead of listening to this audiobook. As a matter of fact, I’d recommend getting it from the library instead of buying it and if reading the physical book feels good from the library, then buy it.

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