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  • Preparing for the 7 Worst Days of Your Life
  • Written by: Phil McGraw
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Real Life

Written by: Phil McGraw
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What if you could see around the corners of your life? Wouldn't it help to know what the most challenging days of your life would be like BEFORE they hit?

There are certain days in life that stand out because they are among the toughest that you or someone you love will experience. Your quality of life and your experience on the journey through this world are a function of how you handle these days when they arrive. Will you be ready? Will you be strong? Will you survive and be better for it, or will you cave?

In Real Life: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life, best-selling author and talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw is here to help you prepare to confront what he believes are the seven most common critical days that you or a loved one are likely to face.

  • Loss - the day that you or someone you love has their heart shattered by death, divorce, or losing something of great value.
  • Fear - the day that you realize you have lived your life as a sellout and that every choice you have made up until this point was dictated by other people's expectations, not based on your own goals and desires.
  • Adaptability Breakdown - the day that the pressures of balancing your responsibilities and needs, along with life's demands, have become way too overwhelming, and you realize that you are in way over your head.
  • Physical Health - the day that your body or that of someone you love breaks down because of illness, trauma, or disease.
  • Mental Health - the day that the mind breaks down and betrays you or someone you love.
  • Addiction - the day that addiction takes over, and you or your loved one look a powerful destroyer in the face and realize that you are not in control.
  • Existential Crisis - the day that you or someone you love lose the purpose, compass, and connection to meaning in life and have no answer to the question "Why?"

    PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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    A must to read

    I have purchased the book in those crazy COVID-19 times. A very difficult time in our history. Also during that time, my father was diagnosed with a grade 4 non curable brain tumor. He passed away while I was reading the book. There is a complete chapter about loss and strategies to deal with it when facing it.

    This is another excellent work from Dr. Phil. The title is Real Life and Dr. Phil starts the book with the following: This is a book about hope, joy, personal strength, and, most importantly peace of mind.

    Later in the book:
    Sometimes we just have to get through 'now'. We don't necessarily have to answer the question about how to get through the rest of our lives. We just need to get through this moment and stay alive, stay in the game, stay focused on a meaning and purpose to exist.
    This is so true in those COVID-19 times: The sun will come up, and it will shine on your face. You will begin to breath again because you always have whether you have acknowledged it or not. You made it this far because you can. Based on results you have been given the strength to face challenges.

    Dr. Phil direct style which is straight to the point makes this Audio book so easy to understand.
    In addition, the book provides a chapter for each the following topic: stress, fear, adaptability, health breaks down, mental breaks down, addiction and loss of purpose.

    A highly recommended audio listening to everyone who wants to improve especially on those vulnerable days.

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