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Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem
From popular humor writer and social media sensation Anna Lind
Thomas comes the second book of charming and uproarious essays that
capture our universal need for life to just slow down-we weren't
ready for this! Anna Lind Thomas wants everyone to just calm down
and give her a minute, okay? She's not ready for this! In fact,
through her latest collection of laugh-out-loud essays, she'll
prove she's never been ready for anything in her life. Adult
decisions, marriage, parenting, crow's feet, large pores, skinny
jeans--you name it, she ain't ready for it! Don't even get her
started on that one time she appeared on national TV in a blazer
two sizes too small because she thought she'd lose twenty pounds
before the shoot. Good grief, she just wasn't ready! I'm Not Ready
for This will give you the encouragement you need to: Embrace the
unexpected aspects of life Appreciate the incredible power of
vulnerability Let God push you forward, even if you feel like
you're not ready Through her signature wit, charm, and painful
relatability, Anna reminds us that no one's truly ready for
anything--so we might as well go for it and see what happens. She
bets it'll be real good--or at the very least, real funny.
The book is about the human condition: suffering, emotional and
psychological distress, identity, existence, and reality. It
examines these issues at the physical, biological, psychological,
sociocultural, linguistic, discursive, and spiritual levels,
comparing and evaluating, as well as integrating where possible, a
broad range of approaches and theories to provide a holistic
understanding of the person. This book accomplishes the following:
charts a range of cross-disciplinary approaches and theories
relating to human nature, experience and behaviour; suggesting,
within each of these how they may be seen to relate to the human
condition, suffering, and to reducing emotional and psychological
distress discusses current postmodernist/post-structuralist
concerns about the essence of what we are (i.e. whether we really
are essential and substantial individuals, or whether we are merely
sociolinguistic and sociocultural constructs or subjects)
incorporates eastern philosophies and psychologies in relation to
what we are, reality, the mind, the self, and suffering identifies,
in its conclusion, a number of elicited principles and practices a
person may incorporate into their daily living to reduce suffering
and increase psychological and emotional well-being and offers a
schematic representation of its general concepts in relation to the
human condition, its levels, components, and processes, which can
be used to refer to or underpin understanding and for readers'
further discussion, exploration and researches
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