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A review by ohiosarah
The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life by Geri Scazzero
4.0
When I first started reading this book I thought it’d be the same old rhetoric about what we’re doing wrong and how to change but the changes were too big and not realistic – I have to say I’m always happy when a book surprises me and knocks me off my assumption pedestal. The Emotionally Healthy Woman is a book not just for a woman who may have past hurts, although it’s for her too, but it’s for all women – women who may not be able to say no, women who over-function, women who blame, women who lie and more.
I’d look at this book as a tool kit, and if you look at the above list and think, “oh I don’t lie”, well then you may want to grab this book – because you just lied to yourself. The book will cover the following areas:
Quit being afraid of what others think
Quit lying
Quit dying to the wrong things
Quit denying anger, sadness, and fear
Quit blaming
Quit overfunctioning
Quit faulty thinking
Quit living someone Else’s life
I think that the chapter that really spoke to me was over-functioning – I tend to take on too much and then I become stressed out and then my temper flares. Then next was the fact that I too often deny myself my true feelings, I bottle things up and instead of telling my husband I’d rather now see such and such, I’ll grin and bear it then keep that anger and misery bottled up. Geri Scazzero gives a lot of ideas to work through the things you need to quit so that you can be better for yourself, for your family and ultimately for God.
Now, don’t think I am going to put this book on a pedestal, there were some things that I didn’t totally agree with but they weren’t major issues and easily over looked. The one thing I wasn’t sure about was something called the Prayer of Examen which I did go and look up and it’s something that St. Ignatius Loyola came up with to better help Christian’s discern God’s will, find Him in all things and enhance their understanding of His creation. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but again it’s not something one has to do in order to make the most out of this book.
**Special thanks to Rick ******** for sending me a review copy.
I’d look at this book as a tool kit, and if you look at the above list and think, “oh I don’t lie”, well then you may want to grab this book – because you just lied to yourself. The book will cover the following areas:
Quit being afraid of what others think
Quit lying
Quit dying to the wrong things
Quit denying anger, sadness, and fear
Quit blaming
Quit overfunctioning
Quit faulty thinking
Quit living someone Else’s life
I think that the chapter that really spoke to me was over-functioning – I tend to take on too much and then I become stressed out and then my temper flares. Then next was the fact that I too often deny myself my true feelings, I bottle things up and instead of telling my husband I’d rather now see such and such, I’ll grin and bear it then keep that anger and misery bottled up. Geri Scazzero gives a lot of ideas to work through the things you need to quit so that you can be better for yourself, for your family and ultimately for God.
Now, don’t think I am going to put this book on a pedestal, there were some things that I didn’t totally agree with but they weren’t major issues and easily over looked. The one thing I wasn’t sure about was something called the Prayer of Examen which I did go and look up and it’s something that St. Ignatius Loyola came up with to better help Christian’s discern God’s will, find Him in all things and enhance their understanding of His creation. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but again it’s not something one has to do in order to make the most out of this book.
**Special thanks to Rick ******** for sending me a review copy.