Blog And Book Reviews
Corinne is a blogging friend who writes at Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards. She has had a varied career that has taken in real estate, counselling, and (most relevant to this post), interviewer of self help and self improvement authors on the cable show Wisdom TV. As she was interviewing these writers Corinne found that [...]
It is that time of year when bloggers review the year and come up with lists of best blogs. The following thoughts were prompted by Steven Aitchison’s Top 50 Personal Development Blogs of 2011. I don’t object to this in principle – so long as the inclusions and awards aren’t taken too seriously. If [...]
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Discovering Purpose is a self development blog authored by Ayo Olaniyan. I’m a subscriber and also contributor to Ayo’s monthly Life Skills Magazine. For the small effort of submitting your email address you can get a magazine with several great posts about self development. Including one by yours truly. You can go here to subscribe. [...]
If you battle depression of have a loved one who does there is a newsletter that is worth subscribing to. It is written by John Folk-Williams who writes an excellent blog about dealing with depression called Storied Mind: recover life from depression. It is one of my favourite blogs, practical and the writing is consistently [...]
Ev’Yan Nasman was kind enough to send me a copy of her ebook, “Sex, Love, Liberation: a manifesto for the bold at heart”, to review. What sort of book is it? The answer is: full on! Ev’Yan writes with a passionate intensity. (There are about 55 pages of content as well as the preface, [...]
Kat Sanborn has been kind enough to send me a copy of The Gratitude Power Workbook to review. What kind of book is it? It is a workbook. It has space for you to write in and exercises to do around gratitude. It doesn’t try to convince you of the importance of gratitude or deal [...]
To help the survivors of the Joplin tornado buy a copy of this ebook. All proceeds go to Heart of Missouri United Way. What you get is 60 articles by bloggers, including one by yours truly. To learn more about the ebook and who is in it please go to this page. To make a [...]
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Rita Tennyson from socialradius.com was kind enough to send me a copy of Transcendence by Norman Rosenthal to review. (Not an affiliate link.) What sort of book is it? Americans are very good at what I think of as high class journalism. These kinds of books take an area of complexity like one scientific field [...]
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I’ve just added a new blog to the Contact List in the sidebar. It is too a blog called Overcoming Sexual Abuse embracing a new life. I have been subscribed to their feed for a few weeks now and their posts are excellent. They do not deny the impact of sexual abuse, or try to [...]
If you have an autistic child or know someone who does there is a telesummit coming up. http://www.autismsupporttelesummit.com/ This seems like a great initiative and the speakers cover a wide range of issues. It has been organised by Claire Hayes who explains who she is and why she put the summit together in this way: [...]
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