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There Must Be More Than This : Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions (精装)
by Judith Wright
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Personal improvement, Personal growth, Self-help |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A refreshing personal growth book with pragmatic, practical tools to overcome soft addictions and take control of your life. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
Finally a book that provides practical information to help me in areas I've struggled with - like overeating and oversleeping - without telling me to give up everything I love. I'm learning that by adding activities that really support and take care of me, I can gradually release my soft addictions. This book is really revolutionary. Plus, it doesn't have to be all serious and heavy. The way Judith talks about soft addictions I have a lot more compassion for myself and more of a sense of humor. I'm buying this book for everyone I know. |
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Betty Burks (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
When I picked this book up at the library, I was reminded of the Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is to Love?' I enjoyed the quotes interspersed by Mark Twain, Margaret Mead, Albert Schweitzer, Clarence Darrow and especially liked "The proper function of a man is to live, not to (merely) exist" by Jack London.
Soft addictions are described as unhealthy habits, unlike hard addictions (certain foods, alcohol, medications, cigarettes, bad thoughts, game playing), but they serve to drain our energies and sense of fulfillment. We use them as time wasters to provide a sense of activity to feel that we are achieving something - but actually we are using these traps to avoid real problems. What we are doing appear "normal" (shopping, TV for company, computer games) but we are left with a feeling of emptiness and being unsatisfied.
The author, Judith Wright, confessed: "Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth." A man you trusted and loved in the beginning can inflict real damage to your whole being with his criticism and harshness. A man does not have to act tough to be a man (nor does he have to wear cowboy boots), but he shouldn't talk like a woman, either. It seems we have a need for elocution teachers again to show a young adult male how to lower his voice and not just act like a man but sound like one as well.
Being the mother of three sons, growing up with a brother three years older than I with only a father at home, I can honestly say I've been around men most of my life, and accepted each as an individual. Guess I was lucky that none were effeminent in any way. Returning to East Tennessee to 'retire' the first thing which bothered me was the way the men here talk in the higher register, and I commented that their wives had deeper voices than they. I don't (never did) sound like a man, but I have a definite Southern drawl unlike the Knoxville harshness - which I developed while I was away. We talk like the people around us, every- body knows that. I look Knoxville (short, dark eyes, a natural wave in my natural hair, a fighting spirit for doing "what's right"), but I don't sound Knoxville, and the twain shall never meet.
Ms Wright lists various activities she says when overdone become soft addictions such as media, buying/shopping, sexual, risk taking, card games, crossword puzzles when done alone. Moods, self-pity, chameleon-like behavior, sarcasm, crankiness, evading and escaping social interrraction, oversleeping, isolation AND things (edible & consumable) like fast foods, coffee, snack foods, cigarettes, and brand-name merchandise: all can turn into addictions.
This book is interesting in the fact of learning these facts. After twenty years of developing personal growth programs, she and husband, Bob, have developed MORE through seminars, now on a web site and the eight-step program spelled out in this book.
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