4 out of 4 stars
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Cut Yourself a Break by Sarah Fletcher is a complete guide for people to learn how to be kind to themselves. Self-compassion in this book was defined as being kinder to oneself. This book covers a wide range of self-compassion and the effects of individuals not having self-compassion. She shared her story and other incidents to show how important self-compassion is. The pillars of self-compassion are self-kindness, humanity, and mindfulness. She explains these pillars as trying to avoid focusing on the flaws but accepting them, forgiving themselves, and stopping blaming themselves. She also talked about the misconception between self-pity and self-compassion, then guided us on the journey to achieve self-compassion. I will spare you the details for now but grab a copy of this book to find out more.
Before reading this book, I had never really taken notice of the word "self-compassion," but this book shows how important it is to be self-compassionate. Sarah's story was both emotional and encouraging. Despite all that she faced, she still forgave herself. I learned a lot of things from reading this book. For example, I have learned that I must always know how to forgive and be kind to myself first, and then I will be kind to others too. This book also tells people to be kind to others, as their actions may affect people in the future. These are just some of the numerous messages that this book passes across.
One would see the amount of work put into researching this topic just by reading this book. A lot of real-life stories were talked about to buttress this point. The sites and references for this work were included at the back for further research. I enjoyed the delivery of the topics in this book. Every point was well-analyzed, and the author left no stone unturned. The writing style was impressive, and the book flowed perfectly. I liked that this book was short and straightforward.
It is really hard to dislike anything about this book, but I think I enjoyed the author's views and what she had to say more than some of the referenced stories in the book. Some of the stories did not make sense as much as the author did. Aside from this minor dislike, this book was perfect. It was free of any form of error, and it was exceptionally edited.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars because of the lives this book will help. People who are battling with trauma should get a copy of this book. It will help them ease the tension and forgive themselves. Psychologists and therapists should get a copy of this book too. It will help them in their line of work when tending to patients.
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Cut Yourself a Break
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of the day BOTD is non fiction guide from dozen of stories shared by people who have gone through different kinds of traumatic experience be it chronic illness, bullying,war. they share how people made them feel hopeless as if they were the only ones experiencing trauma at that time alone .the author talks about "cutting yourself a break" and by this she means not giving up !? But facing the trauma like it's not a traumatic no more , she gives good guide through self compassion .I really like this book because traumatic experience touches our daily lives and through Saras guidelines we can over come it.the book was well written and reviewed making it so easy to understand I will recommend it to everyone
