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Surviving a Shark Attack (On Land)

By: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Narrated by: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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With her trademark no-nonsense voice and building on the principles developed during her long career as a licensed therapist, New York Times best-selling author Dr. Laura shows listeners how to survive enemies - traitors, backstabbers, and saboteurs - at work and at home.

In this long-awaited book, Dr. Laura turns to an emotionally explosive subject that has touched all of our lives: betrayal and the desire for revenge. And for the first time, she shares her own personal experiences with betrayal, humiliation, and pain, which has led her to a powerful desire for revenge. Intimate and honest, Dr. Laura connects with her listeners as never before.

Empathetic yet never saccharine, direct yet never harsh, Dr. Laura encourages listeners to explore their feelings and learn to get beyond them, finding the tools they can use to achieve fulfilling, contented lives free of rancor and the need to settle scores. Powerful and thought-provoking, Surviving a Shark Attack (on Land) gives listeners the emotional defenses they need for overcoming the worst life can throw at them, whether it's a cheating spouse, a lying sibling, or a ruthless colleague.

©2011 Dr. Laura Schlessinger (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers
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empathy, clarity and instruction to help move on

Dr Laura covers so much ground. Her examples of intimate betrayal are particularly helpful to me and the reason I purchased this book. There's no quick fix to a broken heart... there's just the Grace of distance, time and new opportunity that if you allow yourself to heal fully will be, feel and taste even more blessed once achieved. Revenge isn't made taboo and I loved this! it's a discussion of how different motives and means of revenge will likely result and an exploration of alternative paths which aren't necessarily the high road but can elevate you from the depths of rage, bitterness, scorn and depression betrayal sunk me into. I can start to faithfully take responsibility for my own healing without being glued to the idea that there's nothing good to come from getting the crap end of the stick. thank you for this writing!

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Too fast!

While I enjoyed the content of this book and the lessons to learn in it, Dr. Laura read way too fast it's hard to absorb everything.

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Betrayal is heartbreaking

I found this book by accident one morning at 1:23. I am so glad. It helped me put things in perspective. The only negative was that DR. Laura narrated too fast.

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Wisdom

there are so many nuggets of wisdom in this book. if I had to offer a readers digest version of it, acknowledge the betrayal, step outside of the pain, learn from it, but don't wallow in it. People can be shitty but that doesn't give you the right to start flinging the shit or swim around in it. Highly recommend, can be applied to all walks of life from the business world to family life.

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Love Dr Laura

Great perspective from a very smart lady. If you regularly listen to her show you will love this book!

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Useful and Entertaining

I've read or listened to most of Dr. Laura's books. "Surviving a Shark Attack" is another addition to her impressive list of helpful, insightful titles. Dr. Laura's voice, humor and personal style make this an especially easy and enjoyable book to listen to. I recommend it highly and will listen to it again and again.

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Love Dr. Laura

I’ve been a listener for almost 40 years and have grown because of her. Thank you!!!

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Loved that it was narrated by Dr. Laura and that she provided some of her real life examples of being betrayed. I also really liked that she was realistic that sometimes it is just best to walk away. She did not provide a lot of the psycho babble that a lot of these self help books provide - very useful information and very entertaining. I now need to find her show on Sirius/XM as I am hooked.

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it helped me

there were some unpleasant pass moments for me in this book but all in all it's a pretty good book if you are autistic like me and don't really have a good rundown of how other people would or do most likely feel and what it looks like when your being baited in the more subtle ways humans can do. I used to think it wasn't possible for people to be this way and that it was just bad perception on my part. now I find all my deductions are conclusive of exactly what I have felt I was experiencing. not a very deep book but a good starter in understanding personal attacks and what you can begin to do about it. tho I didn't really like her expressed love of vengeance and watching people get what they "deserve". it came off a mite creepy to me.

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A conversation with Dr. Laura

I love Dr. Laura. I was going through a family betrayal when I decided to read this this book. I wanted very much to have a conversation with Dr. Laura so that she could either affirm my behaviors in response to this betrayal or to get a grip. Long story short this book was a great replacement to a direct conversation. Her example stories kept the advice entertaining and engaging.

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