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How to Be Your Own Best Friend

Written by: Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz, Jean Owen
Narrated by: Bob Berkowitz
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What is real, lasting happiness? How does one achieve it? And why are so many people holding themselves back? At the heart of this profound, simple, beautiful book is the wisdom of Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz, married psychoanalysts who encourage listeners to both love themselves and to confront life's hardest truths. A classic for more than three decades, How to Be Your Own Best Friend has already changed millions of lives. Now, open up your mind, and let it change yours.
©1971 Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz (P)2021 Tantor
Personal Success Self-Esteem
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very listenable hard to internalize

This makes you feel valuable as a human in a way that doesn't embellish or inflate, and presents the case to being nice to yourself.

The author presents some of the concepts we all "know" in a way that is objective and tangible.

I'll admit I can't really find a takeaway from this. A better title for this book would be "Why to be Your Own Best Friend"

I'd recommend this to a friend. I'll probably listen to this again here and there.

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