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Title: When Reality Bites
Subtitle: How Denial Helps and What to Do When It Hurts
Author: Holly Parker PhD
Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-30-16
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
With great insight and originality, author Holly Parker shows you how to use denial as a buffer in the face of tragedy, and how to know when your use of denial has become counterproductive or detrimental. Through a fresh, comforting, and clinically-based perspective, Parker takes the shame out of denial with practical and relatable solutions to uncovering, reframing, and harnessing this very normal coping technique. Hands-on exercises and compelling personal stories help you apply this information to your situation and come to accept your need for denial when it helps, and break through it to face life's challenges with courage when it hurts.
Members Reviews:
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Holly Parker, PhD, has taken a subject that many think of as psycho-babble, approachable only in the inner sanctum of the psychiatrist's office, and has taken it into the clear light of everyday conversation. The accusation "you're in denial" has been shown to describe not only a negative reaction, but just possibly a way to manage the hard times in life with a little kindness directed toward oneself.
By removing ourselves from the thick of things, we can look at the situation more clearly and then decide if it's something to consider a major life trauma that must be dealt with immediately, or perhaps something we can remove ourselves from for a while, in order to take a deep breath and try to prepare for less trauma than jumping right in would have caused.
She has a casual, relaxed approach in her writing, which helps the reader let go of the idea that we must fight all our battles full tilt, as they present themselves, and allow ourselves some kindness before the fray. A good book for those in relationship struggles, or even just struggles with all the problems in life that require a deep breath before approaching.
Using denial to survive life
Fiction is not the only thing that I ever read, in fact I read quite a great deal of non-fiction. I enjoy books that give help and guidance. Now, that being said I might not be the best person to review this book, because at this moment in time I am dealing with a number of things after starting my life over after 21 years of marriage, but then again that might also just make me the best person to review this book.
Denial. Normally when you say the word denial, we think of the bad ways in which we use denial. The alcoholic who refuses or cant see that they are damaging themselves and/or those around them. The person who refuses to take ownership of their actions, and on and on. The thing is, denial is not always a bad thing, it just takes knowing when and how to use denial to your advantage.
Author Holly Parker has a very easy, conversational tone in this book, and it reads more like she is a friend talking to you over dinner, giving you the information from her vast knowledge to help you through things you are dealing with. She doesn't overwhelm you with her knowledge and training, or make you feel that you can't understand what she is saying. She keeps it in a light and easy manner that allows everyone, no matter your educational background, to be able to understand what she is saying and feel comfortable with it.