All posts in Summer Self Help Reads 2010

Learned Optmimism-How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Posted on July 19, 2010 at 3:13am by admin No Comment

When you look at this image do you see a glass half empty or a glass half full?  I really have no patience for talk about positive thinking.  I know it to be like my frequent visits to my hair dresser to eliminate my graying hair.  You can apply whatever topical agent you like, but…

The Happiness Project-or how I spent a year chasing myself with a bunch of rules on how to live

Posted on July 12, 2010 at 3:00am by admin No Comment

Okay, that isn’t the subtitle of the book, it is actually Or, Why I spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, but it is what I would call it.   I loved this book when I saw it on the shelf.  I…

Review: Byron Katie and Loving What Is

Posted on July 5, 2010 at 3:00am by admin No Comment

Who is the Writer? In 1986 Byron Katie (or Katie as she is most often called)  was 43, living in a half way house, and sleeping on a floor because she didn’t feel worthy of the bed.  She was in a half way house for women with eating disorders and had been sent to the…

Summer Self Help Book Club

Posted on June 28, 2010 at 2:27pm by admin No Comment

If the latest Oprah magazine is any sign, and you and I know it is, summer is all about reading.  The beach read.  Paperbacks, potboilers, or the books you haven’t made time for yet.  The lazy hazy days of summer are lifes’ invitation to crack a binding or two. In this blogs history I have…