Reviews for Peaceful Pregnancy Meditations: A Diary for Expectant Mothers

The average rating for Peaceful Pregnancy Meditations: A Diary for Expectant Mothers based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-11-18 00:00:00 Thomas S Burke Contains real and vital insights about boundaries, but often insights are so enmeshed with religious dogma that it is hard to tell which is which. According to the author I am forever stunted in my growth as a person because I do not believe in his imaginary friend in the sky. A book on healthy boundaries that forces the authors religious views down your throat by the threat of stunted growth. Oh the irony! "higher power" or "god" is mentioned 105 times. To my mind this extreme, completely unexplained, and completely unsubstantiated dependence on god to fix things robs the book of most of its credibility. How do we find our worth? "we learn that we are a good, whole and perfect child of God." "our True Self knows that it can co-create its life by connecting to its Higher Power" "we extend our Love and expand ourself so that, in concert with the God of our understanding, we can co-create success and joy in our life. This appears to be the most evolved experience that we can have as a human being." The relationship with god that the book recommends also seems suspiciously similar to the triangles that he talks about as being primarily destructive. In fact a diagram illustrating it is a literal triangle. And in this case there is absolutely zero proof that the entity you are talking to even exists. Jesus! (pun intended) Additionally, the book - in my my opinion - fails to actually explain the real insights and I understand them only through other books that I have read. Instead of real explanations the book severely misuses metaphors. I consider a metaphor to be a tool for communication of ideas, for elucidation. When it instead becomes the understanding and you talk about "true self" and "inner child" as if they were real things the metaphor becomes a hindrance to true insight in my opinion. Perhaps this way of "explaining" things relates to the authors assertion that our true self is intuitive while our false self is rational and logical. No kidding. He seriously appears to claim that when we employ logic and rational thinking that is our false self in action. Let me clarify that I'm utterly convinced of the absolute necessity of utilizing intuition. It is where all our understandings and insights come from. It is the light bulb moment. But most of the light bulb moments turn out to be illusory! Intuition is awesome for presenting ideas. But to validate them we absolutely must follow up with a rational logical examination of our ideas. The author appears to disagree about the need for rational examination of ideas. He appears to consider his intuitions and metaphors to be valid just because he intuited them. At least that seems to explain why the book is shock full of assertions and very very lacking in explanations.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-23 00:00:00 Chad Thompson This is the second book on boundaries that's from a patriarchal monotheist point of view, although this one doesn't jam it down your throat as much as the previous one, and this one actually has useful stuff in it. I think that imposing your religion on others is a violation of boundaries. There were also too many references to his other books. In other words, he was promoting them (you'll learn more about this if you read my book, so-and-so) in the midst of this book.