Jules Burton

Excruciatingly progressive blech

Revisado: 11-11-23

Great performances. Meh story; I shut it off with a about 45 minutes left because I simply no longer cared; I didn’t care much for the 1st 4 hours, either. None if the main characters are sympathetic or likable. It’s the awful virtue-signaling that made me give it up. Sawyer was once great; this is pathetic pandering.

The performance is magnificent, the production excellent. Fraser is wasted on this mediocre (at best) material.

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Not up to her other work; pass on it

Revisado: 10-20-21

Very very poor production quality, with echoes & other voices occasionally in the background. I speak at the speed of light, and her vocal speed here makes me sound like I talk in slo-mo. Very aggravating, as is her misreading of her own work followed by a correction. Guess she was too lazy to back up the cursor & re-record.

There is some good stuff in content here, and many chunks have been lifted word for word for inclusion in her other books. I had found Unf—k Your Anger enlightening, and I was hoping for more of that type of analysis and advice to share with my clients.

Yeah, it’s not here. What is here is duplicated in later books with vague nonsense and babble between.

The 10% good stuff (most of which I’d already read in her later-produced work) doesn’t make up for the 90% here that is polar opposite to my world view and moral system. In her other books I could sort of push it aside & focus on the Good Stuff, but had this been a physical book & not an Audible, it would have been repeatedly thrown across the room. I fought through to the end clinging to the vain hope there would be something, anything useful here.

I am fed up with everyone in the world being special delicate crystalline structures because of who you screw, what is or isn’t between your legs, and the pigmentation of your skin. Most of what happens to us in life is NOT based in those areas, and I’m fed up with therapists who talk as though it is. Find a new ax to grind, please, doctor. (And no, I am not a straight white male. Check your assumptions at the door, thanks.)

While there have been many changes for the better in academic psychology since I got my degree, the promotion of the cult of victimhood is not one of them.

I will continue to recommend her book on anger, but this one was a giant waste of time, and the poor production quality actually made it annoying and occasionally painful to listen to.

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Save yourself! Run away now!

Revisado: 10-06-21

I’m all for self-care; that’s why I chose this title. We all need it, we all deserve it, and we should all do it. I was hoping for some fresh ideas and perspective; if you are as well, get used to disappointment.

If you aren’t playing in the Special Olympics of victimhood, this author will make you insane. I’m convinced there’s probably good material buried here deep in the swamps of participation trophy reasoning, though her somewhat snide assumption that everyone has used self-care as an excuse for bad behavior made me want to metaphorically smack her with a baseball bat.

(Lady, I don’t know how *you* were raised, but I was raised to treat others with courtesy and to honor both my obligations and my commitments. I would never do anything even vaguely connected to your examples. That you assume everyone does and has makes me think you were very badly brought up.)

I freely confess I listened to little of the title. The performer does her best with this dreck. I listened to half of chapter one before I began to throw up in my mouth. I jumped to chapter two for about ten minutes and just couldn’t take any more.

She’d say my privilege is showing. I’d say she’s mistaken in her assumptions about who I am.

Run away! Save yourself! There has to be a better choice out there.

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Scientifically Improperly Constructed —Might do more harm than good

Revisado: 04-20-21

I am a certified CBT and NLP master therapist. Ours brains don’t “hear” negatives, so when the affirmation is something like “I will think only of my successes and not think of my failures”, what your subconscious hears is instructions to think of BOTH.

In addition, the female narrator’s voice is not at all soothing or relaxing — she’s rather grating. Her timing is also way off. I speak at the sound of light, and I can’t stick them out fast enough to keep up with her. In addition affirmation should be short and easy to understand. These are long complicated sentences full of negations. The male narrator’s voice is better, but...

RUN AWAY FROM THIS TITLE. IT WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.

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