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Surviving Infidelity, Making Decisions, Recovering from the Pain by Rona B. Subotnik and Gloria G. Harris Recommendation “I’ve been unfaithful.” With this sentence, most marriages will never be the same again, if they survive at all. Authors Rona B. Subotnik and Gloria G. Harris pledge to provide counsel to those who are hurt and reeling. getAbstract believes […]

Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth By Joe Vitale Recommendation Joe Vitale’s life manual is packed with his highly personal brand of new-age wizardry and inscrutable passages from other modern day self-help philosophers. With aphorisms, maxims and fables on ideas and subjects ranging from sex, food and forgiveness […]

The Verbally Abusive Relationship, How to Recognize It and How to Respond by Patricia Evans Recommendation Verbal abuse might not be as visible as physical abuse, but it can be just as damaging. What makes this type of abuse so insidious is that the victim blames herself, further weakening her self-esteem, instead of placing the […]

Recommendation This 1963 classic by Irish-born American minister Joseph Murphy (1898-1981) strongly influenced the New Thought, New Age and self-help movements. Its brief chapters offer a clear, engaging and encouraging treatise on how to lead a better life, forge better relationships, become more prosperous and improve your health. Murphy repeats some points in different chapters, and […]

How to Hold a Grudge, From Resentment to Contentment – The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life by Sophie Hannah Recommendation Best-selling crime novelist Sophie Hannah explains how to hold grudges happily. A self-confessed “grudge guru,” Hannah provides a grudge grading system and a way to process the frustration of a grudge into life lessons. With creativity and tongue-in-cheek humor, […]

Mean Genes, From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Recommendation While human genes haven’t changed much in tens of thousands of years, humanity’s environment has. This mismatch, argue Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan in this witty, fun tour of sociobiology, causes self-defeating behaviors like profligacy, gluttony, […]