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You Were Not Born to Suffer

Overcome Fear, Insecurity and Depression and Love Yourself Back to Happiness, Confidence and Peace

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You Were Not Born to Suffer

By: Blake Bauer
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In this life-changing audiobook Blake D. Bauer explains why depression, addiction, physical illness, unfulfilling work and relationship problems are caused by years of hiding your true emotions, denying your life purpose and living in fear.

Having already helped thousands of people around the world find lasting solutions that conventional medicine, psychiatry or religion couldn't offer, this book will show you how to free yourself from the destructive thoughts, habits and situations that are stopping you from being happy and well.

In simple practical steps you’ll learn how to slow down and create a healthier relationship to yourself that is based on acceptance, kindness, honesty and self-worth. You’ll also find out how to transform the stress, anxiety and insecurity that result from constantly trying to please others into lasting confidence, self-respect and inner peace.

Whether it’s negative thinking, financial worry, loneliness, guilt or self-doubt that’s holding you back, Blake Bauer’s words will move you to take better care of yourself, heal old pain and courageously move forward. If you’re ready to enjoy your life, feel passionate about your work and create fulfilling relationships, this book will support you to live authentically, love wholeheartedly and finally value yourself enough to put everyday health and happiness at the center of your life.

©2017 Blake Bauer (P)2017 Random House Audio Anxiety Disorders Love, Dating & Attraction Mental Health Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Spirituality Happiness Health
Life Changing Concepts • Profound Insights • Transformative Tools • Unique Perspectives • Practical Exercises
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As a United States Air Force Veteran thats 100% disabled due to mental health issues that wrecked my life for decades, I'm telling you there has never been a book I have come across that truly told the truth about what was going on in my head and my heart. Best book I've ever read accept the Bible to heal. And if you dont know God dont worry…He loves you and there is nothing you can do about it! :). GREAT BOOK!

Best book ever to change the coarse of your life!

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Self-love is the foundation, without it... nothing can stand.

Blake puts it into words, reinforcing this truth.

Thank you Blake. You help save me.

Life changing

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I’ve spent thousands of dollars on personal self-development and Masterminds. I met the author at a conference where he talked about developing the “jewel within” that gives you power to overcome. I could not get this thought out of my mind so I bought this book. This book is different than others. It not only gives you a tantalizing perspective shift but it gives you transformational questions that lead you to internalize the information and facilitate a more lasting change. I am so grateful the author has given this gift so freely to the world and to me.

Reachable Transformation

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As the title states, this book changed my life in the ways that I needed to change. A little bit of a backstory would be that I recently moved from Wisconsin to Colorado for a career. My life prior to moving was filled with a lot of pain and suffering stemming from an accident that stopped my heart and I was revived by a defibrillator. I had a lot of damage physically but suffered the most emotionally and mentally with PTSD and losing all of my longterm memory. I was a jerk, hot-headed, closed off, held grudges and a slew of other attributes that I never wanted to be but I had to be accepting of in order to change. I had heard of Blake Bauer from a seminar he will be hosting in Colorado not far from me and I wanted to see what he offered as a writer. Since the radio in my truck is broken, I decided to try out Audible and used a credit for You Were Not Born To Suffer. In mere minutes, just from Blake’s straightforward approach to many topics and his coaching for breathing exercises, I was drawn in and couldn’t stop listening. So with a little bit of psychedelic help, I spent the entire 15 hours and I think 49 minutes working through each of the questions at the end of every chapter and the key affirmations that followed. Never in my life have I heard someone phrase unique perspectives in a way that Blake does from his own experiences. He is able to relay everything in a way that lays the groundwork for personal growth, rebuilding and clearing out some of the darkest corners of things buried deep within. You would have to want to better yourself to understand that this book is more than just a book, it’s a tool that’s capable of ridding years of guilt, shame, regret, remorse, grudges, etc, and allows for (at least for me) a second chance at life. Blake I sincerely thank you for everything.

Simply Put: This Booked Changed My Life

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Beautifully layered and well articulated the root cause of human suffering. Blake illuminates solid tools we can use to open our hearts, and find the love within ourselves, concepts like radical acceptance/ forgiveness, and other dynamics like money and love are discussed. Really good stuff, I can’t say enough about this book! 5 stars, highly recommend. Thank you.

Eternally grateful

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Excellent book! Discovered it just when I needed it. Blake Bauer is on point with so much!

The Next Step In my Personal Growth!

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This book was life changing for me. I started this book years ago and could not connect quick enough to keep me interested. In the meantime I have listened to many other books about inner growth and self love that had simpler concepts, more story telling and that I would consider to be less informative but more “entertaining”. The second time I was in a better place to grasp these huge, profound, life changing concepts. I Love this book and am grateful to the author for writing it.

Life Changing

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Must read if you’re trying to move forward in your spiritual journey and to love yourself.

Great book!

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I am an audible and self-help junkie. If I had to pick one book from my library to keep this would be it! He covers so much material and an easily digestible and approachable format. I bought print copies to give both of my children. This should be mandatory reading for high school.

Simply amazing!

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By chapter 3 it was clear this was not worth further investment of time and effort. By chapter 5 I’d had enough of Bauer stringing out the same simple message with contrived pseudospiritual verbal diarrhea. Save you money and listen to Ram Das, Tolle, or any number of more credible options

Awful

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