Cannonball Read 11

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Because a bad day can always get worse (and isn’t that grand?)

The Pursuit of Grouchiness: Oscar the Grouch’s Guide to Life by Oscar the Grouch

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Do you love Oscar the Grouch? Then get his book, The Pursuit of Grouchiness: Oscar the Grouch’s Guide to Life on how to be a good… I mean bad… Grouch! This is a counter book: a gem at the checkout you see and know it is the perfect “little something” you needed to fill out your gift for Uncle Bob or that pesky high schooler who is just graduating. Or you are one of millions of kids who asked, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?” and know you just have to learn every nugget of wisdom […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:115 |

A Thought-Provoking Read for Members of the Adoption Triad

The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier

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As the title of this book about adoptees indicates, author Nancy Newton Verrier views adoption as a process that wounds adoptees on a fundamental level. Her central theory based on research and personal experience is that severing the connection between a mother and child leaves a wound which profoundly impacts sense of self, including self-worth and self-esteem. She has a strong message for adoptees: What adoptees need to know is that their experience was real. Adoption isn’t a concept to be learned, a theory to be understood, or an idea to be developed. It is a real life experience about […]

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3/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

The Situation is a lot more nuanced than that…

The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT by Cedar R. Koons

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I went to a talk, not too long ago, with a philosopher who had written his thesis on body awareness. He wrote his entire thesis without any sort of movement and he was advised by the leading expert who also rarely moved or was aware of his body in any way. The philosopher has since rectified this and now he’s all about practicing what he preaches. This book is for people diagnosed with Borderline Personality disorder or people who suffer from emotional intensity “Emotional intensity refers to the experience of excruciating bodily sensations associated with emotions and the sense that […]

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3/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Girl, Wash Your Face – If you like/don’t like Goop you will like/not like this

Girl Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis

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Having seen a number of women post about reading this book, and knowing that it’s a bit of a pop culture phenomenon at present, I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about. A friend of mine, noting my “currently reading” status on Goodreads was surprised to see me reading it and figured that it would not be my taste. She was not incorrect. Hollis, for the unknowing, has created a global empire with a website, number of books, event planning business, etc. Essentially she is a lifestyle…guru? I don’t know what this profession is called. As a self-identified […]

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2/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Meh. (yes, that’s literally the best title I can come up with for this one)

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

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After reading Cannonballer Niki’s review of this book earlier this month, it cemented my decision to NOT read it. I had been wavering until that point; it kept being recommended to me as a “life changing read, like, omg”, but something about it never really sat right with me. Then I read Niki’s review, and it articulated & confirmed my hesitations, and I removed it from my Amazon ‘Save for later’ list (where it had been living for months). And then a bunch of women in my book club wanted to read it. And then my sister-in-law gifted me with […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

“Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

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A disclaimer of sorts: I have watched at least the first several seasons of every Shonda Rhimes show, but I have given up on all of them. They stress me the hell out. The drama always feels fresh at first, and then it’s like all the shows start to cannibalize themselves, more and more people die, no one ever stays together for good, etc. There’s no stability. That’s a primetime soap for you, and why I don’t watch them anymore, but I’ve always admired her for her engaging, at times batshit, storytelling style, and her ability to get you to […]

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1/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Eating in the light of the moon

Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnston

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When you suffer from eating disorders you carry your illness on your body. Every pound you carry is a failure, a battle lost and it can be shameful just to exist in a public space. Everything you eat becomes a punishment, a reward, an expression, pretty much anything other than nourishment for you body. Eating in the light of the moon is a book about eating that hardly mentions food. Dr. Anita Johnston is a clinical psychologist who specializes in women’s eating disorders. Rather than focusing on food she tries to go one step deeper focusing on the role that […]

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11/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

Look! Someone has a brain like me!

First we make the beast beautiful by Sarah Wilson

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The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful” Sarah Wilson has been diagnosed over the years, everything from anxiety to depression to bipolar. She’s been on medication, off-medication, happy and functional, manic and gone and suicidal. This is a book for people who suffer from what she refers to as anxiety, but covers any sort of mental health issue where you feel like your brain doesn’t mesh with life. This book is less a treatise on how to live with anxiety and more of a blend between memoir, research, blogging, and self-help […]

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8/8/2018 's CBR10 Review No:26 |


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