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Audio not the right format, too recipe focused

Revisado: 03-23-25

Women rave about this book and I enjoy the author on podcasts but the book is basically listening to a menu tailored to specific athletes out loud in a robotic voice. I do not recommend the audio book and the same info can be collected online. The food recommendations do not apply to anyone following an anti-inflammatory diet or paleo, so it's so much wasted space.

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Understand narcissism and how to heal

Revisado: 02-24-24

Clear and unequivocal characterization of mild and moderate narcissism and not just the dramatic, extreme cases, which helped me see how I had been gaslighting myself about the profound impact of my experience with a narcissistic parent and enabler on my mental health, feelings of guilt, and self-doubt all these years. I felt a weight lifted in the discussion challenging social norms that advocate forgiveness as a response to narcissistic emotional abuse and instead focus on reshaping your own identity and story so it is separate from your association with the narcissist.

I wish there were more about dealing with and healing from behavior of the parental narcissistic enabler/supplier in the situation of a parent who is a narcissistic.

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Random, directionless mishmash of philosophy and literature, unscientific, contradictory take on cats

Revisado: 02-08-24

Feels like the author googled the topic and found random philosophy and literature by thinkers who loved cats or wrote about them, then makes conjectures about cat biology and behaviour that is simply inaccurate. For example, he lost me when he posited that cats can experience trauma and forget it the next day, and that they are not neurotic in their attachments. I'm not even a cat person and know this to be inaccurate. Not a single citation to science. The context as to why he chose each writer or philosopher, why they are important, and the impact they had is left out, so we learn nothing about cats nor about philosophy. It's just a pretentious, fanciful, forgettable, long winded reminder to chill and practice detachment. It's also a rather cynical and pessimistic take on what makes us human and simplistic, outdated view of the complexity of animals and their neurology and biology. Sometimes it anthromorphasizes cats and other times characterizes them as being lower life forms like a paramecium, with no reference to the complex social worlds of their evolutionary ancestors.

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A much-needed reflective narrative of MS

Revisado: 12-16-19

A thoughtful, literary reflective narrative of a disease unique to each person who has it. Grateful to read this at just the right time.

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