Stop Whining, Start Living
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4.2 • 17 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Bestselling author and popular national radio host Dr. Laura offers tough-love advice to help us all lead active and more positive lives.
Dr. Laura Schelssinger has helped millions to nurture and cherish their relationships and their partners. Now, she turns her piercing insight and no-nonsense approach to each and every one of us, offering advice and information for becoming better people in more control of our lives.
Using real-life situations, Dr. Laura provides solutions that will inform our lives and relationships with parents, siblings, spouses, colleagues, and the others we interact with every day. With Stop Whining, Start Living, readers will learn to act instead of react in their path toward living a positive life.
Ready to stop making excuses and start taking control?
Shift Your Perspective: Learn why seeing yourself as a victim is a choice, and discover how to focus on what you can control using real-life examples from Dr. Laura’s listeners.Personal Accountability: Move from blaming others to taking ownership of your actions and moods with a direct, no-nonsense framework for personal growth.Improve Every Relationship: Apply tough-love principles to your interactions with spouses, parents, children, and colleagues to build stronger, more honest connections.Action Over Analysis: Break the cycle of endlessly talking about your problems and learn to take the decisive steps that lead to a more positive and productive life.
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Licenced therapist Schlessinger has made a small media empire out of "telling it like it is," exemplified nowhere better than in the titles of her numerous bestsellers (Ten Stupid Things Women do to Screw Up Their Lives; Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands). She does it again in her latest, giving readers the same get-over-yourself kick in the seat she delivers daily on the radio; in fact, the book is heavy on transcripts lifted directly from that show. Fan email is also used to illustrate Schlessinger's points, which mostly amount to learning when to stop complaining. Strategies for this include counting blessings and suffering in silence: how does she cope with a son serving in combat? "The truth is I just live with it. ... I endure." Most of Schlessinger's values, encompassing maturity, compassion and responsibility-especially to family-can hardly be argued with, but her "Preaching, Teaching, Nagging" delivery can be condescending.
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