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Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life
With wit, wisdom and uncommon sense, Dr. Harriet Lerner gives readers the tools to solve problems and create joy, meaning and integrity in their relationships. Women will find Life Preservers (more than 40,000 copies sold in hardcover) to be an invaluable motivational guide that covers the landscape of work and creativity, anger and intimacy, friendship and marriage, child...more
ebook, 372 pages
Published
October 13th 2009
by HarperCollins e-books
(first published 1996)
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Aug 10, 2008
Khaya
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
readers of advice columns, readers seeking a good bathroom book
This was a good book to finish on a fast day -- short segments that didn't demand too much from my attention span. In fact, I've been picking this book up and putting it down periodically whenever I got tired of whatever else I was reading. It was good for that as well.
I really like Harriet Lerner, even if her material can be a bit repetitive if you've read as many of her books as I have. I don't agree with everything she says, but I do find her intelligent and provocative, and worth thinking ab...more
I really like Harriet Lerner, even if her material can be a bit repetitive if you've read as many of her books as I have. I don't agree with everything she says, but I do find her intelligent and provocative, and worth thinking ab...more
Anecdotal Ann Lander's style collection that supports Lerner's amazing theories. After reading many of her books, I could guess most of what she was going to say, but it was enjoyable to read about the people writing in, and anticipate the life-changing epiphany they must have gotten by reading her response.
I didn't like this Harrier Lerner book as much as the others. At first the Q&A format seemed ideal, but evenutally I felt that it lacked the depth and complexity of her other writings.
This book really helps a lot to me.
it has an advice to any problem that anyone is facing now.
You also have to try reading this.
if you want , I can let you borrow it from me :))
it has an advice to any problem that anyone is facing now.
You also have to try reading this.
if you want , I can let you borrow it from me :))
Mar 21, 2013
Captain Buckwheat
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Shelves:
personal-development
Oct 12, 2012
Butterfly
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Shelves:
relationships-self-help
Jul 11, 2012
Jamie Bigham
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Shelves:
audiobooks,
philosophy-and-spirituality
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Harriet Lerner was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the second of two daughters. Her parents, Archie and Rose Goldhor, were both children of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. They were high school graduates who wanted their daughters to "be someone" at a time when women were only supposed to "find someone."
"Achievement was next to Godliness for my sister, Susan, and me." Harriet notes. "My f...more
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"Achievement was next to Godliness for my sister, Susan, and me." Harriet notes. "My f...more
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