Life Lived Well: A Collection of Tips, Insights, and Inspirations to Live Not a Great Life, But Your Best Life by Jeremy Zoch, PhD Book Review

Jeremy Zoch is an CEO for a hospital and an assistant professor and has earned his PhD. He begins the book by sharing how the average person stops working out at age 41. They claim that they are too tired and too busy to. We tend to put off exercise and living health. He has personally completed in more than 40 marathons, three 50-mile ultramarathons, 100k trail race, and 100-mile road race. He has even completed 70 miles waterski event. He explained how he was told by a basketball coach that he needed to lose weight. He thought he was too slow to run up and down the court. He instructed to him that he would be telling his parents. He quit the team and he felt so embarrassed because he called him out in front of the whole team. People are putting off from living their dreams and they save things for when they retire. This book is written to assist readers in helping you to live out your dreams. He encouraged readers to write down their life map and answer who they are, what do you picture your last day to be like, and much more. Each chapter contained an exercise section and questions you can ask yourselves. 

 

 

 

 

He shared how he has a strong stance for life and places high value on living your best life. One day his mother experienced a terrible car accident. She was turning and she couldn’t see out of her blind spot and was hit head on. She broke her knee and her ankle. She was bruised and cut all over her face. This in turn led him to becoming a nervous child and he worried about her constantly. He was afraid that she would die. He would ask her if she had to drive anywhere that day and sometimes, he would cry during class. He was close to failing classes and he lost friends. He now knows he was suffering from trauma and he had to learn to let go. In this exercised, he encouraged readers to ask themselves what has shaped us and what we can let go where we can move forward. 

 

 

 

 

I would recommend this inspiring book to anyone who is ready to live their best life and they are tired of not living life to the fullest. I liked how he addressed health and how he had to learn to watch his glucose levels and cholesterol. He chose to eat healthier and has witnessed the effects of eating clean and consuming more of a plant-based diet. He has a goal to live healthier and make it until he is way over 100 years old. I liked also how he enclosed a number of questions to ask ourselves to go deeper into the message of the book. This book will assist you in asking who we are and what the best life looks for us. 

 

 

 

 

 

“I received this book free from ALLW for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Lived-Well-Collection-Inspirations-ebook/dp/B0CLZ6CPRF/

Who Are You & What Have You Done with My Kid?: Connect with Your Tween While They Are Still Listening by Amanda Craig, PHD, LMFT

In Who Are You & What Have You Done with My Kid, Amanda Craig explored tools we can use to navigate the many changes that are ahead of us in raising tweens. Tweens are aged 9 to 12 years old. They love social media, TikTok, creating videos, and connecting with the world. She revealed ways in which we can learn to handle the many changes that they are being faced with in this generation. Amanda is a family therapist with over 25 years of experience. In the book, she briefly mentioned that her sister, Valantina was murdered when she was just 18 years old. She admitted to struggling with what they could have done differently to prevent this tragedy. This is part of the reason as to why she chose to study family psychology. 

 

 

 

In the book, she explained emotional connection and how critical it is to have that connection with our tween. This included that they will follow the rules, feels a part of the family, makes up after an augment, more apt to resist peer pressure, and much more. When we work on actively building this relationship, we will witness a dramatic change in them and they will act more like an adult which is our main goal. She looked at how our tween need to know that we see them, want to know them, we are there for them, and that we will keep them safe. She also went into great detail about autonomic nervous system and the background of what occur from a scientific standpoint. She explored the neuroscience and how our tweens are changing into adults. She also described how we can enforce boundaries. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book on parenting tweens to anyone who is either in that current season of their life or will be soon. I liked how up to date the information was in the book and how she made it relevant. One of my favorite things was the topic of enforcing boundaries and she enclosed some examples. One of these was letting parents view videos before they are allowed to post to social media. I also liked how she explained the different between punishment and consequences. I believe this was really helpful in reinforcing our value system and providing an opportunity for our tweens to learn from their mistakes and to change. I also enjoyed how she used a lot of table format to get her message across on variety of topics. I think it made it easier to read and understand. I also liked to two-jar jam teaching that she will explain to readers and this has benefited a number of parents. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-What-Have-Done/dp/1546003088