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Stop Being Mean to Yourself: Story About Finding the True Meaning of Self-love

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Stop Being Mean to Yourself: Story About Finding the True Meaning of Self-love (Hardcover)

by Melody Beattie (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco (Aug 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 006251119X
ISBN-13: 978-0062511195
Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 911,694 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In this sequel to 'Codependent No More', Beattie invites readers to follow her through teaming Casablanca, war torn Algeria and the caverns of Egypt's great pyramids as she embarks on a new kind of spiritual journey.

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Why this book is different, yet the same....
I personally love this book. It challenged me on many levels, and it was written from a spirit of adventure, rather than pain. For readers expecting a didactic, spelled-out "how-to" format -- don't. After the initial burst of recovery from codpendency, the lessons came more subtly -- each one, like solving a mystery. That's how I wrote this book. It is multi-level, and intended to speak to you, hopefully, the same way your life does. You don't have to go to Algiers to have your adventure -- you're living it right now. Thanks. Melody --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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2.0 out of 5 stars This book is more about autobiography than self-help., 7 Dec 1998

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Beattie's "Stop Being Mean to Yourself" promises to guide you to a place of self-discovery; however, the book is more about Beattie's own inner journey than it is a how-to guide on how to find your own spiritual path. Beattie takes a trip to the Middle East, where she is repeatedly detained in airports by efficient young women who question her about the purpose of her trip, and last-minute changes in her itinerary. The airport detentions frame the book, as Beattie tells her story to both the custom officials and to the reader. We learn how she discovers friendship and the mysterious "Powers" inside of a pyramid in Giza. We read about her field trip to the desolated countryside in Algiers. Beattie tells us about being bestowed with the gift of the end of her karmic cycle by a Bhuddhist monk. Exactly what form that gift takes, she isn't at liberty to reveal. Ultimately, the reader realizes that the path to self-love and enlightenment is an individual path that one must find for one's self. No book and no author, regardless of the promises made in the introduction, can guide you on your spiritual journey. While enjoyable to read, the title of "Stop Being Mean to Yourself" might be more apt if it were changed to "How Melodie Beattie Stopped Being Mean to Herself." The reader is left with the feeling that Beattie has gotten hers, but it's up to you, the reader, to get your own.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Wide-eyed new-ager's trite journey of self-discovery, 5 April 1999

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Melody is not just your average dumb, uncritically accepting new-age type. She's a rich, bestselling, dumb, uncritically accepting new-age type.

If you're willing to believe that a guy from Taiwan can have you mumble some Chinese you don't understand and that this will make sure you achieve Nirvana in this lifetime (for a suitable fee, no doubt), you're on a par with Melody.

If you let your hairdresser bleach your hair because "he said my auric field was lightening and it would help to have my hair lighter too, for a while," you're one with Melody.

And what happens in the end? She goes to Master Huang, pays the fee, "gets her Tao", and receives the three secrets, "traced back to their biblical origins", but of course Taoism is completely unrelated to the Judeo-christian tradition, a fact which Melody never bothered to research.

And what are the three secrets? Well, you'd better find Master Huang and pay your fee if you want to find out. Melody, after all that, isn't telling.

I found this book in a box left out in front of a used book store. It was a waste of time, but at least not a waste of money -- I didn't pay any.

Rather than leaving this book out for someone else to waste time on, I'm going to recycle it. Mulched up and made into paper bags, it will be performing a far better service than in its current incarnation.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An adventure both temporily and spiritually., 3 Oct 1998

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Melodie took me to places I have always wanted to visit. I was fascinated that she would undertake such an adventure alone . There were some details of her visit that were left unanswered at times but I felt myself holding my breath and wondering what might happen to her next.There were some very insightful passages about toxic relationships and self-discovery that I felt were directed right at me. I needed to be reminded how quickly and how subtly we give our power away and how we need to get it back. Life is worth living.

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