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So glad this was hysterically true

Revisado: 12-26-24

This wonderfully described the awful state we can get in and somehow offered suggestions that were helpful but also made me laugh really hard. I’m going to look for more by this author.

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There are so many good things to say!

Revisado: 02-08-23

I loved how the author started with the adult Eleanor but gradually revealed some of the pain in her early life which increased my curiosity rapidly to know what she survived and what she was going to make of her unhappy early life. Gail Honeyman has the ability to create the type of people that many of us are because of the strange families we are born into or sent to when our circumstances fail to meet our basic needs or when the adults in charge of us truly want to destroy us. Gail was able to portray so accurately how hard it is to come into adulthood trying to piece together the confusing information you pick up in a dysfunctional family and the equally confusing information that comes to you through the multitude of sources in the rest of the world. I loved Eleanor from the start and couldn’t wait to follow her through the daily struggles you arrive at as you navigate adult life with the foundation of a broken childhood. The reader was outstanding with the ability to do many accents perfectly. This greatly added to the charm and depth of the characters. Immediately listening again.

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Brilliant essay!

Revisado: 11-18-22

Don’t hesitate to purchase because it’s short. Very well written and researched. No wasted words!

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Finally a devotional that digs deeper.

Revisado: 11-18-22

The devotionals I’ve used have been good but I have never really liked the 5 minute format. I prefer digging in a bit more and spending more time. This is sad but this is the first devotional in decades as a Christian that I have bonded to with my whole heart. I love that it spends a week on each woman and gives me insight and a perspective that I may not have considered before. After a few weeks of listening I had to get the hard copy so I could linger over the passages that changed something in my mind and heart. I also wanted to journal what was being inspired within. Though I don’t usually buy devotionals for others I had to get this for my daughters and 2 closest friends. I know that they will be inspired too. Since I am recovering from some brutal experiences in my life with men, I really want to focus in on the women right now. So grateful for the empowering qualities in these women of faith. Thank you Ann and Jean!

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If you are an introvert

Revisado: 10-11-22

I read this over a decade ago and it’s one of the few books I read every year. It set me free when I didn’t fully understand introversion and like so many I was raised with extroverts who had no conception that a person could be perfectly happy by themselves. This book explores how introverts have existed and been misunderstood through the ages. I finally began to respect my need to be alone to think, create,and experience life without distraction. This book gave me the freedom to choose wisely who I spent time with and it wasn’t in social gatherings where I was forced to interact superficially. I love people, one at a time and on a deep friendship level, or the sane members of my family. I can easily say now, “ no thank you” to parties or gatherings that I find miserable and taxing and will have to spend days recovering from. It’s ok if you are wired like this, in fact it has many advantages. Once you respect this you will enjoy life much more.

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A comfort if you’ve grown up this way.

Revisado: 06-11-22

I felt that the author had vast experience in treating people who grew up this way. Her patients’ descriptions of some of the crazy moves by narc moms that make the child /adult feel like they are crazy were great because when that happens repeatedly you begin to second guess if you are crazy. I knew this already but to share the experience with this empathic therapist and the women she’s helped just felt good. The author offers help in recovering from a mother that left you broken. I can testify personally, we can become a whole.

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Worth reading twice

Revisado: 05-26-22

I read this when it came out and put it on the shelf for rereads and favorites. Listening to it again after a couple of decades it still holds up as a beautiful telling of what it is like to try to navigate this world when you look different from everyone. (and that’s is everyone to differing degrees.) Though her deformity was extreme I could really empathize with her anxiety just going through normal life. Whether you identify with that or not, I believe her experience can expand our humanity to include everyone and treat them accordingly whatever their appearance. After listening to it again I’m reading it from a point of wholeness and health while before I was broken and struggling. Her courage is still striking. Though she later ended her life, she fought the good fight and if you like to read about survivors you will love this. To me she is still a survivor for every day that she fought through, and that was every day. Let her show you another example of the human spirit to overcome dreadful circumstances. I hope this book keeps her story alive.

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