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You Exist Too Much
- A Novel
- By: Zaina Arafat
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: "You exist too much," she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, we trace her progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is distractingly bad
- By K. Tannous on 09-11-20
- You Exist Too Much
- A Novel
- By: Zaina Arafat
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Different, special, enchanting
Reviewed: 06-16-22
I really liked it. The narrator was nothing I would expect, the voice a little like by a child but quickly it became very special, enchanting, keeping me in the story. The story was nothing I would expect, I haven’t even read the description I only loved absolutely loved the title and for the title I wanted to read the book for a long long time. But then it was such a good story. Took me to a world unfamiliar to me and yet so familiar. Will never forget it. Worth reading for sure. So much.
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Healing from Hidden Abuse
- A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse
- By: Shannon Thomas LCSW
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,188
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 986
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 977
Within every community, toxic people can be found hiding in families, couples, companies, and places of worship. The cryptic nature of psychological abuse involves repetitious mind games played by one individual or a group of people. Psychological abuse leaves no bruises. There are no broken bones. There are no holes in the walls. The bruises, brokenness, and holes are held tightly within the target of the abuse.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Proceed with caution
- By Kamel on 10-17-18
- Healing from Hidden Abuse
- A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse
- By: Shannon Thomas LCSW
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Brought a great relief
Reviewed: 08-26-21
This book found me when i needed it the most. Exhausted from an emotional abuse at work (academic postdoc position) this book made me finally realize that it’s not unmatched characters or me doing things wrong but I actually had a psychopath for a boss. Every single thing I’ve heard matched my reality even the one where i kept denying it for a long time. I was finally able to quit my toxic job - even if it probably meant saying goodbye to academia - after 3 years of the worst torture of my life. I am finally breathing. Thank you so much Shannon Thomas!!!
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- By: James Clear
- Narrated by: James Clear
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 143,336
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 117,671
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Story5 out of 5 stars 116,620
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Author went overboard hawking his site
- By CHughes on 06-25-19
- Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- By: James Clear
- Narrated by: James Clear
Worth reading
Reviewed: 09-24-19
Really good content, good advise and finally some new light and new solution to common struggles. I truly believe in them. Need to read again to follow with the majority. The listen in itself a little boring, I had often hard time to focus, perhaps better on paper. Nevertheless, absolutely worth reading.
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Lost Connections
- Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
- By: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,676
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,821
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,791
From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt, but not convincing
- By Brett on 03-18-18
- Lost Connections
- Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
- By: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
LOVE. The realest book about depression ever.
Reviewed: 09-24-19
This book was the best story, theory, conclusion, explanation, and a book about depression ever. Life changing, freeing, amazing. I'm lacking words for describing it, but I think that everybody who deals with depression NEEDS to read it. It should be a mandatory book for all therapists and the first one that gets recommended as a necessary reading in therapy. And if you suffer from depression, you will perhaps never feel so validated and so well understood like when reading or better even listening to Hari and Lost Connections. This is the first thing ever that actually makes sense, a real sense. LOVE IT. Love Hari too. His voice, his realness, his struggle - you can hear it you can feel it and it makes you feel safe and... understood. Not some fairy tale kind of blah reading but a real voice with real pauses, real choking on words and ideas that hurt like s*. LOVE. May have rescued my life.
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The Clutter Connection
- How Your Personality Type Determines Why You Organize the Way You Do
- By: Cassandra Aarssen
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,433
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,242
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,235
"You're not messy, you just organize differently." The Clutter Connection examines and explains the correlation between brain types and how they directly relate to organization and clutter. Cassandra Aarssen smashes the stereotype that some people are "naturally messy" and offers listeners insight and real-life solutions based on their unique personal organizing style. The Clutter Connection will help you get organized, be more productive, and finally understand the why behind your clutter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing Aproach - Way different than others
- By Oneyellowducky on 02-22-19
- The Clutter Connection
- How Your Personality Type Determines Why You Organize the Way You Do
- By: Cassandra Aarssen
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Over and over the same
Reviewed: 09-24-19
Horrible. I liked the whole idea and was expecting a lot. Well, too much. Waaaaaay too much. I basically did not find out anything. She just keeps repeating how she got to figure out the four systems. Checked further in later chapters: same. Expecting tips how to get organized in your uncommon style? Wishful thinking, you won't get anything beyond the constant repeating of visual abundance or simplicity... blah blah blah. Waste of time and money. And while this woman is probably a great organizer... writing is not her strength. Videos, vlogs would probably be thousand times better.
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Emotional First Aid
- Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
- By: Guy Winch Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Guy Winch Ph.D.
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 399
Explaining the long-term fallout that can result from seemingly minor emotional and psychological injuries, Dr. Winch offers concrete, easy-to-use exercises backed up by hard cutting-edge science to aid in recovery. He uses relatable anecdotes about real patients he has treated over the years and often gives us a much needed dose of humor as well.
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4 out of 5 stars
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insightful and delightful
- By IngleSpanish.laugh.n.learn on 11-02-13
- Emotional First Aid
- Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
- By: Guy Winch Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Guy Winch Ph.D.
An emotional band aid itself
Reviewed: 09-04-18
I love this book and Dr. Winch. His voice is so warm and calming and is a band aid itself - his voice and Dr Winch himself. Great advise great understanding i wish i could talk to him in person. Has listened to the book 3 or 4 times maybe five and constantly coming back to it... great to calm down thoughts when you cant fall asleep in the crazy thought chaos...
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The Fault in Our Stars
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,912
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22,364
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,459
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. The Fault in Our Stars is insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw. It brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad Premise, Fantastic Story
- By FanB14 on 05-24-12
- The Fault in Our Stars
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Cancer story, not really any people there
Reviewed: 08-04-18
In the era of positive psychology, I have an impression that there is more and more books and movies about sadness and misery. Are we missing it or something? I love John Green and absolutely loved his Turtles All The Way Down. While not very positive either, it had so much... life in it. The Fault in Our Stars is a tragic story of kids dying of cancer but the story is not the issue. The way how it's told is just so heavy, so cancer-driven. I have no idea how it is to be so sick and I hope I will never find out. So maybe that's why it's easier for me to judge. But I have read books about kids dying of cancer and they were still different, inspiring, uplifting. This one - I dragged listening. It was like listening to a person in deep depression and it just drains you, regardless of how bad you may feel for them.
It's like there were no people there, just cancer, sickness, depression.
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You Are a Badass
- How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
- By: Jen Sincero
- Narrated by: Jen Sincero
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54,062
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46,324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46,001
Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title misrepresents tone of content
- By Matt on 07-29-14
- You Are a Badass
- How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
- By: Jen Sincero
- Narrated by: Jen Sincero
A badass book
Reviewed: 07-14-18
I love every bit of it, I love Jen Sincero. Listening to the book for the third time and counting. Already got a hard copy for highlights and notes. This is an amazing book and written in such a cool way. Read by Jen in a humorous fashion and beautifully. Highly recommend.
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Letting Go
- The Pathway of Surrender
- By: David R. Hawkins MD/PHD
- Narrated by: Peter Lownds PhD
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,002
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,849
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,802
Letting Go describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to enlightenment and become free of negativity. During the many decades of the author's clinical psychiatric practice, the primary aim was to seek the most effective ways to relieve human suffering in all of its many forms. The inner mechanism of surrender was found to be of great practical benefit and is described in this book.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Severely Flawed
- By Rich on 10-23-15
- Letting Go
- The Pathway of Surrender
- By: David R. Hawkins MD/PHD
- Narrated by: Peter Lownds PhD
Great content, but not easy to listen
Reviewed: 07-14-18
It is an amazing book - that's for sure. Great lessons, great insights. But the way it is written - ugh, so painful. It is of course written by a genius and it's no surprise he talks like a genius and not everybody will get it. But I wish it was written a bit lighter so that I can listen to it over and over. Unfortunately, it is like a huuuuuge research paper that I need to take notes on. Nevertheless, listening again and thinking of getting a hard copy for better note taking;) It has an amazing wisdom inside and that is worth any pain to get through to it!
Highly recommend.
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Turtles All the Way Down
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,088
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,879
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,860
Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hate to call it a trigger warning, but-
- By Lynnzee on 10-23-17
- Turtles All the Way Down
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
All the way down beautiful
Reviewed: 07-14-18
I bought this book ONLY because of the title which referred to something I've read in an academic paper by one of my favorite researchers/professors. I wasn't interested in the plot or anything but thought if someone chose a title like this for a book, it must mean something.
I do love teenage literature so it fit right in. Beautiful story, beautifully written. And important one to tell.
Highly recommend, will listed to again.
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