An inspiring work that sets itself apart from other self-help books by encouraging readers to write their own transformation...
Mitleid channels her experiences as an intuitive consultant, teacher, and cancer survivor into this motivational self-help guide, the first of three volumes in a series.
Divided into four parts, this debut work announces in the preface its ultimate goal: to encourage readers to use the advice in the way that suits their needs best. The author makes “suggestions, but they are just that—a suggested road to self-study.” The four main areas include achieving clarity, simplifying life and living with less, learning to adapt, and managing stress as a growing tool. The author’s personal trials, career, and relationships are woven through each chapter, ranging from her battle with breast cancer to her divorces to her work as an intuitive consultant. As a psychic, Mitleid notes that she was asked countless times to identify a client’s “life’s purpose,” emphasizing that there are no shortcuts to discovering this. Individuals can only do that for themselves through hard work and introspection. Writing exercises are included at the end of each chapter, with a special “Invention Page” to allow more creative, abstract interpretations of the text through drawing, collage, etc. Having a clear focus on what one truly wants out of life is an important, unifying theme throughout. With a funny, straightforward, and nonpreachy tone, this work stands out from other self-help guides in that it is not demanding, allowing people to move at their own pace in improving their lives. The interactive questions and writing exercises at the end of each chapter are useful, clever tools to assist readers in actively and constructively processing their ideas to better understand their own personal growing process. Mitleid does not intimidate or taunt readers with unattainable goals. Rather, her book is an approachable, supportive, and unassuming manual in achieving self-actualization through growth and spiritual exploration.
An inspiring work that sets itself apart from other self-help books by encouraging readers to write their own transformation narratives rather than simply providing broad, generalized answers.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: 978-1-61468-370-4
Page Count: 216
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: April 3, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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