Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself As Effectively As You Care for Everyone Else

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Summary: "Talking book is coming in spring"
Review: Just found out that an audio version, "talking book" will be available for this book in Spring of 2000. Will be excellent listening for commuters. I believe this book and tape will help many people as it has helped me.

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Summary: Time to look at ME
Review: This book gives a better understanding to the important role women play as women; and how necessary it is to care for ourselves in every way.

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Summary: No longer a burnout!
Review: This book helps especially women to learn to love themselves and to appreciate themselves. Men could profit from this book too. The author shows creatively practical examples and analogies how women can achieve a self-appreciation for what they do, and how stress is reduced and proper self-esteem is developed and established. Another book along these lines that is extremely helpful and goes hand in hand with this one, and I highly recommend, is Dietmar Scherf's "I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression" also available at Amazon.

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Summary: Powerful Reminder for Women
Review: This book was amazing! I can't believe it took reading this book for me to remember that I have needs too! I spend most of my time running around with my young son, running to work, running home and trying to keep up the house, etc...It would not have even occurred to me to do something for myself and here is someone who is giving me permission and telling me I will be a better Mom, Partner and Employee if I self-nurture..I realize that I need to think about my own needs and figure out what they are. So for now I signed up for a writing class one night a week. It's a start and already I feel better. Thanks.

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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This is an amazing book. Lots of women that I know (myself included) have trouble taking time for themselves, yet they put in incredible amounts of time helping their female friends. This book helps you deal with that problem. I was also lucky enough to hear Alice Domar when she was on National Public Radio a few weeks ago. I found the interview fascinating. Dr. Domar talked about how you need to take time for yourself; so many of us feel guilty when we give ourselves time to relax. She has helped me realize that doing nice things for yourself is something that women need to do more of, and that we shouldn't feel guilty for doing it. I HIGHLY recommend this book to any woman.

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Summary: Comforting and Empowering
Review: This is such a supportive, warm, helpful, penetrating book. It helps enormously for me to rethink my life in terms of this concept of self-nurturance. What is great is how Dr. Domar takes you through so many different aspects of life and gives you practical and spiritual and psychological ways to nurture yourself in all these different areas--relationships, family, creativity, work, play, and faith. (I hate to admit it, but it also gives me confidence to know that she's a Harvard Med. School person.) I never fully realized just how exhausting and draining it can be to be so focussed on everyone else's needs. This book is giving me permission to really take time for myself, and it's giving me all sorts of ideas on how to use that time wisely, for my health, well-being, and capacity for joy. The stories are engaging, and there's something of value on every page. What a gift! I'm telling all my friends that this one is a must.

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Summary: Haris' review
Review: This is the best book I have ever rea