Negaholics : How to Overcome Negativity and Turn Your Life Around

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Summary: Quick Read - Delightful Insights
Review: After finishing the book in two days (including taking notes), I found it a useful tool in dealing with everyday pains and stress. Although the focus of it is on negativity, it is not just for those who are depressed. Everyone experiences negative thoughts and the book just helps you use them in a positive way. The case studies are nice examples of her explanations and the charts, stories, and lists are nice additives as well. I was espcially interested in the analyzation of identity and childhood aspects of the book more so than the negativity and although that wasn't the focus, I found it more than enough informative for my novel needs.

Rating:
Summary: Quick Read - Delightful Insights
Review: After finishing the book in two days (including taking notes), I found it a useful tool in dealing with everyday pains and stress. Although the focus of it is on negativity, it is not just for those who are depressed. Everyone experiences negative thoughts and the book just helps you use them in a positive way. The case studies are nice examples of her explanations and the charts, stories, and lists are nice additives as well. I was espcially interested in the analyzation of identity and childhood aspects of the book more so than the negativity and although that wasn't the focus, I found it more than enough informative for my novel needs.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Great, pithy book that puts negativity in perspective. Great gift for that downer person who bugs you and others. Best to send anonymously.

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Summary: cheesy but effective
Review: I seem to be addicted to self-help books, so I think I can sound off here. I really liked this book. Maybe I'm not the "everything sucks, life is terrible" type, but I get stuck in negative patterns like everyone else. Instead of preaching about symptoms and identifying the problem, this book gave me concrete ideas on how to deal with life's little kicks in the shins. The suggestions were great -- better than a book that just said "hey, you're negative, isn't that awful?" it gave you exercises to PULL YOU OUT OF YOUR PATTERNS. And that made all the difference.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Negaholics - How to Overcome Negativity and Turn Your Life Around is an excellent book. This may be an opinion which is closely linked to the fact that I'm a woman and Negaholics is written in a very "touchy-feely" style by a woman. The idea is that bad experiences and/or toxic relationships in your childhood deeply affects the way you view yourself and all your relationships. Negaholics does not focus on childhood specifics, but gives some really positive techniques to try to turn your negativism around and build up your self-esteem.