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The Extremely Busy Woman's Guide to Self-Care

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This was an interesting book. I thought the information presented was well laid out and flowed well. I really enjoyed reading it and want to try and start implementing some of what I read.

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An approachable workbook for busy women. The author's personal story of losing her young adult daughter and transforming her life as a result is a powerful way to start the book. I will probably not buy this for our library, simply because I didn't realize it had so many exercises and quizzes to fill out, and people tend to write in books like this. But for an individual, this would make a great gift for someone else or yourself!

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I was only able to read a few pages as the rest were unable to load because of formatting issues I believe. I tried troubleshooting to no avail.
I think the concepts that I saw were convincing and well written. I would have really enjoyed reading the whole book; perhaps I will be able to get my hands on a print copy sometime.

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Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

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Thank you, NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for a review!

This book was interesting. Some parts even felt educational. It was a good read.

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I understand that I received an ARC of this book, however, the formatting was so off, it was incredibly difficult to read.

I didn't love this book. It really focuses on slowing down - which is important. But yet, this book was marketed towards women who are incredibly busy and I think there is more to self-care than just slowing down. It did have some good messages throughout the book, but overall, it just felt meh to me.

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For me, it was just an okay book. Nothing more, nothing less. It had some nice illustrations, some nice ideas, thought-provokig questions and so on, but I felt it wasn't anything new under the sun.

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Although the advance review copy was difficult to navigate due to formatting, I can appreciate the content in this book. There are a lot of thought-provoking questions in this book. I'd recommend using this as a workbook, perhaps using the questions/prompts to journal.

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This book is a great guide to self care. It is filled with ideas and exercises to help you to have more self care it is very in depth. I enjoyed it and would recommend it.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

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A good journal/workbook to start on self care. There are stories, information and journal entries from her daughter's journal - which she explains early on. The prompts, questions and quizzes have space to write your response. This one can be a great help if wanting a place to put pen to paper.

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A very interesting and useful book I couldn't put down and gave me a lot of interesting ideas.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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Admittedly, I did have some formatting problems with this book but it didn't stop me from loving it. This is a book that all women need to read - trust me, you'll feel better for it!

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Very good book full of points that needed to be taken to heart. Something I think most women need to read and be reminded by.

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I read this book because I thought it would be full of helpful tips for self-care. It is not the typical self-care book in that it is a very deep dive into finding your life's purpose and meaning. It contains examples, stories, and a workbook section. It is a good book, but more in depth than what I was hoping for.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

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This is a good book on self-care tips and tricks. The book has places to journal and reflect, which many people will like having. Ultimately, I don't think it brought anything new that I haven't already heard before, but I enjoyed reading it and it reminded me that it's ok to say no, it's ok to take time for myself, and it's ok to hit the pause button once in a while.

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This book didn't bring much to the table - the first whole half was about slowing down and saying no, which I thought didn't fit well with the way this book was marketed, since its for Busy Women. Also, the format for kindle was awful and should be fixed before publication.

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I requested this book because I thought it was interesting it focused solely on self care. Other self help books usually dedicate this topic to a chapter, or at most a section. Worth reading while trying to reset. Must read for anyone curious about how to feel better about yourself.

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Due to the formatting, as an ARC this title did not translate well on my e-reader. I missed the beauty of the artwork, etc. However, the foundation story of the creation was riveting and really made me question myself. I liked how simple things could be. I will be preordering a copy and hoping to start taking better care of myself.

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