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Loved the story until the end

Revisado: 01-06-23

Wow! I thought this was an amazing story, and it was until the end where the authors struggle with mental illness and need for a psychologist was made so clear. #1 the entire deal with giving up the sibling group, 2 chasing IVF when her plate was full and prayers were answered, not once but twice against medical recommendations and then later when she said even 15 years later she struggled with infertility as apart of her journey makes it crystal clear that the author should have got therapy early on. I think its VERY VERY important that any family that chooses to foster through infertility be mandated to psych eval around this, and this is a pristine example of why.

As someone with a counseling background, I saw a lot of red flags on this author's behavior around foster care. We aren't talking abuse tendency but she needed a lot more self-work and soul-searching before taking on the sibling group and foster kids. My hope is that one day foster care will come far enough that these services can be made available, and mandated, for folks like this who indeed do have love to give, but should be in the right place to do so.

I strongly hope the author has since received the help she needs, as I am sure it shows up in her parenting and relationships. I was disappointed in her behavior around the second round of IVF (guess what, you can donate embryos to another couple) and many things she stated and I felt very bad for her husband. He was victim to her trauma many times over throughout this book.

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Great book, borderline audio

Revisado: 07-01-21

I am going to start to steer clear of author-read books going forward. Often the meaning in them gets lost in the authors reading. They need someone to read who is not emotionally attached to the text. This author continuously trails off as she is reading, her tone goes up and down and voice sounds groaning and overemotional at times. It can be distracting to listen to. I'd like to hear more of what is being said with less emotion in her reading. I'd recommend she allow someone else to narrate this book, and reupload it. However, the book content itself is great, highly recommend. The text version may be the version of choice.

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Good book, poor audio

Revisado: 07-01-21

I am struggling to get through this one. I am going to start to steer clear of author-read books going forward. Often the meaning in them gets lost in the authors over-eagerness while reading. This author continuously sounds like she is borderline giggling as she is reading and its extremely distracting to listen to. I'd like to hear more of what is being said with less emotion in her reading. I'd recommend she allow someone else to narrate this book, and reupload it. I was unable to finish it, which is unfortunate because I feel the book itself seems good.

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This is just a Piggy back off her dads concepts

Revisado: 02-05-18

Would you try another book from Rachel Cruze and/or Rachel Cruze?

Probably not

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

At least she tried to give it her own spin by adding in some additional millenial struggles

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

yes

Could you see Love Your Life, Not Theirs being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

no

Any additional comments?

If you already have Dave Ramsey's Books, don't bother. She just repeats her dads concepts.

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the book itself is great. narrator is terrible....

Revisado: 01-17-18

if you're going to read this book I would recommend just reading it on Kindle. The book itself is very good. The narrator is terrible and it really takes away from the book itself. I have never heard such a monotone narrator. I don't think she should be doing Audible.

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