Everyday Cruelty
How to Deal with Its Effects without Denial, Bitterness, or Despair
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Helen Kobek
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Your guide to dealing with something we all experience: Everyday Cruelty.
Have you ever:
- Been bullied at school, home, or work?
- Been driven to the edge by an uncooperative telephone technical support employee?
- Had a medical appointment that was too short to be useful?
- Had to fight with an insurance company?
Everyday cruelty is everywhere there are people: in stores, on the street, in churches, at home, in doctors' offices, in schools, and at work. We experience the effects of everyday cruelty in our bodies, minds, emotions, spirits, and even in how we act in the world. It is no easy task to live with cruelty in our daily lives without falling into "the big three" of troubling responses: denial, bitterness, and despair.
Everyday Cruelty: How to Deal with Its Effects Without Denial, Bitterness, or Despair guides the listeners through the process of understanding how to deal with everyday cruelty while being fully aware of its power. By defining cruelty, examining how it affects us, delving into what makes it so painful, and then offering hundreds of strategies for dealing with it, Helen Kobek offers this promise: You can deal with the effects of everyday cruelty without pretending it is not happening, becoming resentful, or giving up.
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How to Make Good Things Happen
- Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
- By: Marian Rojas Estapé
- Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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An empowering journey through the mechanisms of the mind from one of the world’s leading mental health experts.
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it's just ok
- By Serafin Zuniga on 01-18-24
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A Life Worth Breathing
- A Yoga Master's Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing
- By: Max Strom
- Narrated by: Max Strom
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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We can do more with this life. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do itthat eludes us. In his new book, A Life Worth Breathing, internationally renowned yoga teacher and spiritual philosopher Max Strom shows us the way. His groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in a language that is vital, inspired, and accessible. Strom leads us on a journey of self-discovery as we excavate our past in order to have a better understanding of our present.
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A true teacher.
- By Bend Yoga on 02-22-15
By: Max Strom
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A Fearless Heart
- How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
- By: Thupten Jinpa Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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The Buddhist practice of mindfulness caught on in the west when we began to understand the everyday, personal benefits it brought us. Now, in this extraordinary audiobook, the highly acclaimed thought leader and longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us that compassion can bring us even more.
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Better to read ... unfortunate grating narration
- By lesley ann on 04-12-17
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Understanding Your Grief
- Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
- By: Alan D. Wolfelt
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well.
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Some of the Most Valuable Resource I Encountered
- By Anonymous User on 09-13-23
By: Alan D. Wolfelt
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Soar Above
- How to Use the Most Profound Part of Your Brain Under Any Kind of Stress
- By: Steven Stosny PhD
- Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Success in work, love, and life depends on developing habits that activate the powerful prefrontal cortex when we need it most. Unfortunately, under stress, the human brain tends to revert to emotional habits we forged in toddlerhood: blame, denial, avoidance, reacting to a jerk like a jerk, and turning our connections into cold shoulders - or worse. In Soar Above, renowned relationship expert Dr. Steven Stosny offers a groundbreaking formula for building new, pressure-resistant habits.
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Life changing/planet changing!
- By rowing girl on 10-02-16
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Fierce Self-Compassion
- How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive
- By: Kristin Neff
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously popular first book, Self-Compassion. Now, 10 years and many studies later, she expands her body of work to explore a brand-new take on self-compassion. Although kindness and self-acceptance allow us to be with ourselves as we are, in all our glorious imperfection, the desire to alleviate suffering at the heart of this mindset isn't always gentle, sometimes it's fierce.
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Liberal Activism distracting
- By Janiene on 07-26-21
By: Kristin Neff
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The Emotional Edge
- Discover Your Inner Age, Ignite Your Hidden Strengths, and Reroute Misdirected Fear to Live Your Fullest
- By: Crystal Andrus Morissette
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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The Emotional Edge is an exciting expansion of Crystal's successful brand - she has tackled weight management, confidence building, and spiritual growth; now she combines all that and more into her most powerful program yet. The Emotional Edge is a guide for letting go of the past and embracing a more empowered future. This audiobook is spiritual self-help designed to teach listeners how to overcome behavioral ruts and engage the world from a happier, more empowered place.
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the world needs more of this.
- By Amber Jessop on 11-25-17
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If the Buddha Got Stuck
- A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path
- By: Charlotte Kasl
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Charlotte Kasl's perennial favorites If the Buddha Dated and If the Buddha Married have inspired readers with their empowering blend of spiritual and psychological insights. Her third "If the Buddha" book, If the Buddha Got Stuck, is a wise yet lighthearted book that will speak to anyone who's ever experienced being stuck in life and wanted to break free.
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i like the author's blend of spirituality
- By dayle on 01-09-12
By: Charlotte Kasl
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Making Life Easy
- By: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Ever since medical school, Dr. Christiane Northrup has been guided by an essential truth about the way our bodies, minds, and souls are intertwined. It's the same truth Edgar Cayce expressed in this famous formula: The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result. When we don't grasp this - when we view our bodily well-being in isolation - life can devolve into constant worry about our health and constant battling to make our bodies "behave".
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A MUST Read!
- By Theresa on 01-17-17
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Anger Management Workbook for Men
- Take Control of Your Anger and Master Your Emotions
- By: Aaron Karmin MA
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Clinical therapist Aaron Karmin teaches you the skills to manage your anger without aggression and build up your self-confidence, self-control, and self-respect. The Anger Management Workbook for Men goes beyond why men get angry and helps you get to the root of your anger. It gives you positive and productive anger management tools to strengthen the most important and most overlooked relationship in your life - your relationship with yourself.
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just not good at all.
- By brian gregory on 06-02-22
By: Aaron Karmin MA
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Kintsugi
- The Japanese Art of Repairing the Body, Mind, and Spirit: Golden Joinery Lifestyle
- By: Hinata Kobayashi
- Narrated by: Iqmal Fuad
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Here, you will find everything you need to know about Kintsugi: The Japanese Art of Healing the Body, Mind, and Spirit and effective ways of applying the procedures involved. My aim and objective is not just to give you the tools to free you from being depressed, remain broken and psychologically disturbed, my goal is also to teach you practical ways to actually help the broken ones feel better and be free of discrimination.
By: Hinata Kobayashi
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My Grandmother's Hands
- Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
- By: Resmaa Menakem MSW LICSW SEP
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
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Think You Don't Need This? Think Again, Please!
- By Carole T. on 03-27-21
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- Anonymous User
- 04-24-19
Inspiring analysis, inspiring strategies
The author of this book says she wrote the book she wanted to read, and that tracks with what she wrote. Everyday Cruelty is a well thought out presentation of intellectual ideas about what terrible things befall us, mixed with why these things haunt. But then there are the practical strategies for making it not all better, but much much better. I liked the narrator's voice, yet I'd have liked to have heard the writer's own voice.
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- Brad
- 05-02-19
This small book makes a big impact
If you pick up the print version of this book (and you probably should, so you can mark it up and dog ear pages) you might think it's light reading because it's so small. Not so. This is a packed full book that delves into things most of us don't want to think about: The cruelties of everyday life. As the author says, we drink our way away from this truth, we binge eat our way away, we yell our way away. None of that really works in the long run. So the author unpacks for the reader what cruelty, why it harms, how it harms, and then - yay, indeed - what we can do to deal with it better. She knows it won't always work, what any of us do, to try to keep ourselves from being harmed or corrupted by everyday cruelty, but it's shot, it's a start, it's a chance. I recommend this book to anyone who is alive.
The only drawback to the audio version is it's a bit hard to follow from chapter to chapter. But if you settle in and listen through, or know that you have to pay good attention (which you should anyway) you get the hang of it. The print book isbroken out into chapters more clearly. But the narrator's voice is awesome. A fine fit for the content.
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- Ming
- 04-28-19
Crispy clear guide book for this era of humanity
Sometimes it is important and necessary to obtain detailed description of reality instead of dancing around it, so that we have a good sense of what's going on and how to respond to it. Helen's writing and Juliet's voice transmit the clarity of wisdom and the attitude of courage to face up to this seemingly confusing and overwhelming modern day living. Worth listening!
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- ed mcinnis
- 12-04-18
FIGHTING CRUELTY
From the incisive opening sentence - 'Everyday cruelty is the hardest thing about being alive' - to the astonishing 303
practical strategies for dealing with everyday cruelty, this book is highly relevant and most welcome. Helen dismantles
false truisms. For example, the Nietzschean maxim 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' This pernicious cliche
permeates popular culture, including the title of a recent #1 pop song by Kelly Clarkson. Helen says the truth is 'What doesn't kill
you weakens you and kills you later.' Because, later, recipients of cruelty develop addictions.
In fact, Helen notes that almost everyone engages in at least one addictive behavior, much of it caused by cruelty. An
example is the heartbreaking widespread crisis of opiate addiction. We might say - contra Karl Marx who famously wrote
'Religion is the opium of the people.' - that today 'Opiates are the religion of the people.'
This and other addictions are caused by bullying, abuse, oppression, poverty and the quotidian malice that surges
through the body politic, much of it injected by masters of cruelty in the upper echelons of society. So find which of the 303
strategies you can use to cope with cruelty. From the physical - sleep well, eat well, take up activities like bowling,
archery, aikido - to the spiritual - meditation, visualization,
cultivation of gratitude - to the paradoxical - blame God/never blame God.
The vocal delivery of the narrator of this audiobook is clear, crisp and measured. I also have the hard copy in my
personal library. I highly recommend either or both versions of 'Everyday Cruelty' by Helen Kobek to all fellow
sentient beings.
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- William Odonnell
- 03-06-19
Good, down-to-earth book
A good, candid review of how to deal with the problems of everyday life. this is a great book for students, of all ages, educators, parents and clinical professionals.
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- GCAGWS
- 11-26-18
Much Needed For Anyone Trying to Improve Themselves
This book would be so truly valuable for everyone to listen to. It refers to many ways in which we are cruel, with or without intention. Some versions of cruelty are not blatantly obvious, and therefore, it was helpful to listen to examples made to raise awareness of how we can improve our behaviors. I do, sincerely, hope that anyone who would like to come to a better place in their lives, listen to Everyday Cruelty.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-27-19
Gave me a lot to think about
This book is short in length but long on importance, for my life. Jam-packed with explanations about why cruelty hurts so much, and full of real ideas on how to got through what we exoerirnce, sometimes everyday. I can't say that I experience cruelty everyday, but when I do, I now have a book to guide me along.
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- Chr Hei
- 01-02-19
Hope and great practical advise
This book is a jewel, that sheds light on the many facets of everyday cruelty. It was comforting to realize that many of the "little things" that happen to us daily are not just sensitivity but cruelty .
Helen Kobek's strong suit is the amazing variety of antidotes to these experiences . Strategies from different mindfulness practices, philosophies, spirituality, religions and psychology. Literally hundreds of short offerings - you will surely find what is fitting for you.
In addition, beautifully read by Juliet Jones.
Thank you both!
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- Yvonne C.
- 12-21-18
such a wonderful audio book!
I thought this title was wonderful. Full confession: I know the author (met her at my gym). I write this because I know she is the "real deal"! This book was a great read and the audio version was wonderful to listen to as well! A++++++++++!
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- hirakukibou
- 06-17-19
This Book is Important to Hear Especially in Today’s Times!
This book does a huge service to those of us who are trying to figure out why cruel interactions are so very difficult and ubiquitous. Not only does it define what everyday cruelty is, but it gives concrete and compassionate strategies to deal with he ways that is affects our bodies, minds emotions, spirits and action. In fact, given the overwhelming claim ate of hate and moral destruction, I think it is a “must read” for anyone with a conscious and we need to share these concepts and ideas with our children as they make their way.
Juliet Jones’ voice is soothing and pleasant as a reader, although some of the pronunciations are slightly different than standard American English. (She is South African.) I did not find it distracting though, just noticed that it was different.
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