Your Best Health by Friday 2nd edition: How to Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Trauma, PTSD, and Chronic Illness
If you suffer from anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, PTSD, or chronic illness, and are struggling to get help, you’re not alone. Billions of dollars a year are spent in the search for answers on how to cope with living in a body that’s rebelling from a life filled with toxic overwhelm.
Inspired by neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED talk and book "My Stroke of Insight", Elizabeth Morse researched methods to be able to shift away from the stress of an overly left-brain mindset. She did so by developing the right-brain state, realizing that it could help her heal from trauma and illness. What she found can help heal us all.
It’s now known that childhood stress and trauma stays with us for our lifetime and lead to a variety of illnesses unless processed and released. It’s less well known that processing and releasing emotion can be easy and stress-free. Learn how childhood trauma can kill us as adults, why our left-brain-state-oriented society is facing so much illness, along with action steps to develop the right hemisphere state in order to heal.
Find out how to overcome your greatest struggles not by imposing protocols on yourself, but by asking the body what it needs to heal. Part health book, part self-help, part spiritual guide, "Your Best Health by Friday" links body to mind to spirit, shows how a health crisis can really be a spiritual crisis, and provides a path to a level of calmness, health, and joy you may never have experienced before.
With one foot firmly on each side of the health care divide, Elizabeth has the ability to explain complex information about the mind, body, and spirit in a simple, understandable way, bringing a welcome dose of rationality and reason to explanations of alternative health. "Your Best Health by Friday" provides a shortcut to finding your best health ever. Whether you are interested in health, wellness, personal growth or are looking for a motivational resource to help you unlock the very best potential within you, this accessible book provides essential information to empower and inspire you.
Plot/Idea: 8 out of 10
Originality: 7 out of 10
Prose: 8 out of 10
Character/Execution: 8 out of 10
Overall: 7.75 out of 10
Assessment:
Idea: In Your Best Health by Friday, the author takes a sensitive and medically charged subject and presents it in an easy-to-read manner. The author uses ample definitions and examples, a smart use of exercises designed to engage readers, and speaks candidly about her own serious mental health experiences to drive her techniques home.
Prose: The book is written in a clear, compassionate prose style as she discusses the childhood traumas and stresses that can have far-reaching impact on mental health.
Originality: There are a great many books focused on mental wellness. Though this one doesn’t stand apart as exceptional, its many insights and nuanced discussion of the topic make it a useful and versatile resource.
Character/Execution: Although some readers may be overwhelmed by the medical content, this is ultimately a thoughtful, well-executed book for those who suffer from stress, anxiety, and depression, and wish to understand what it takes to heal.
Date Submitted: January 31, 2021
