This book is interesting, about labelling something that all of us experience every minute of our lives - voices in our head. There are a lot of insights given about the origins of these voices and the ways to cope with them. A decent read, though I was expecting a lot more insights.

HEADTRASH by Renie Cavallari is and interesting book. I struggled with staying interested while reading by overall enjoyed the information and education it provided.

I just didn't relate to this at all. The author gives so many examples of negative self talk and says that it's impossible to make it fully go away. I disagree. I've cultivated my own self talk to be encouraging, loving and supportive over the years and I talk to myself the way I would reassure or uplift a friend or child. It works really well for me and is pretty automatic at this point. It was actually really uncomfortable to read pages and pages and pages of examples of people's self talk. It almost seemed like it was likely to instill even more. I also thought it wasn't very encouraging to readers to tell them that they were just stuck with so much of it. That's just not true. I had a very negative voice in my head in my youth but my head doesn't have any "trash" at all at this point of my life. I think the author could offer more hope than she says, which is strange for a self-help book.

This book offers great insight on taking out the trash in our heads, and controlling our thoughts. It isn't all about positive thinking, which is so overdone, but offers stories about the author's experience in dealing with her own head-trash and advice and suggestions on handling your mindset in a powerful way. It's a unique way of looking at out thoughts as people telling us things, even suggesting that the people who spout the negative noise about yourself are liars. So it offers a neat way of examining and dealing with thoughts. The author gives great examples and stories of others and a great reminder that headtrash is the leading killer of human potential. Good read.

While I liked the ideas presented in HeadTrash, the book had a lot of advice casually scattered throughout in a non-cohesive way. Certain sections had very specific action steps, while others simply threw a ton of opinions at the reader. Those opinions were mostly regurgitated information from a bunch of different self-help books. I feel like if the author would have focused the book on specific sections of the book, the book would feel more cohesive as a whole. Overall, there is a ton of good advice and I really liked some of the examples provided by the author, particularly in terms of relationships between two people with varied headtrash. I would still recommend this book to those in leadership positions, but with reservations.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.