ive read a lot of money self help book but thus one huts different. love this book. it is so relatable. can i keep it?

"We broken kids, often lonely and starving for attention, had a level of freedom that was unparalleled." I appreciate the author's perspective and vulnerability here, how he escaped a childhood of abuse/addiction/domestic violence and poverty. "You can't teach that kind of resiliency, creative thinking, and problem-solving." Or perhaps, what's most important is reframing to see one's strengths in transforming these difficulties.

This book was a good listen. I enjoyed the narrator and the information was given in a very relatable manner. I feel like it was a great book to listen to for the start of the new year. informative and inspiring. I loved the fact that he related it to his own life but the advice was universal.

I got this book and listened to it quickly.

It was a very very heavy book. I also come from parents of addicts and a tough childhood. So it hit home.

This book helped me realize that I have anxiety because of things I’ve been through and that’s okay. Releasing and letting go of negativity can be hard, when you have parents that are such that! Forgiveness is hard, but I love this book so much for its rawness and truth!

Trauma formed us. And we’re better broken.

This author starts off dedicating this book to his daughters. He tells them that the Bible is the best self-help book ever created, and that his daughters should keep reading it. This book itself is suppose to be a self-help book, in being “better broken”, and if he views the Bible as the best self-help book ever created?! There’s gonna issues with what is said.

Then he tells his daughters to never let a day pass without telling someone they love them, “preferably their mom and I. I guess someday a spouse as well. But mostly their mom and me.” It strikes very odd. Very much possessiveness and that the girls owe their parents I love you’s. Every day. Forever. It’s a very religious-based way of thinking.

Further on, he quotes Jordan Peterson, and that’s when I stopped listening to this book. This is not the self-help book I hoped so, as I do not care for this type of mentality.