Reviews for US: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most

The average rating for US: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-02 00:00:00 Charles Bostic I did learn a lot about myself and how I should relate to others. I enjoyed Lisa's bluntness and desire to figure out how to better herself. The book is funny throughout, and I like humor and comedy in my life, so I enjoyed that. It was refreshing to read about how she complained, but when she went to the real root of the problem why she needed to complain so much, she was able to change. It is true that when you can't change a situation, you may have to change yourself to fit the situation. She also mentioned that often we anticipate someone being upset with us over something out of our control (like being late to work when traffic was stalled), and instead of going to work first to see what would happen, we often imagine the worse. Sometimes, our lateness bothered us more than the boss. SO, what could have started out on the right foot turned into beginning a new day in a negative way. She also mentioned Hendrix's therapy of being attracted to the person who could most heal your childhood wounds. From past experience, I believe this is true, too. But, I do agree with Lisa's view that no one person could ever completely heal your childhood wounds. I really agreed with a lot of her opinions, but her faith is not very similar to mine, so at times I could not relate to her religious views. Still, this is a great book to make you think about how you can have better relationships with others and be more in harmony.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-24 00:00:00 Francisco Aponte This book was recommended to me by someone I LOVE and adore, and although I'm not normally into self help books like these [especially non-LDS ones:], I thought I might give it a go. I liked Lisa, and I liked her style of writing, but it seemed she developed all of her theories from Buddha, Yoga and Deep Meditation, the Koran and monks and ancient priests that had no significance to me. 'Ego transcendence' was the main topic of the book... I couldn't get out of my mind the quote from Boyd K. Packer: 'A true study of the Book of Mormon will improve behavior more than a study of behavior will improve behavior.' True that.