The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook

At the time my life was in pieces and I didn't know how I was going to ever recover. Everything I was doing felt like knifes sticking into my hart. Sometimes when you are having problems usually you wait an in a few days you start to feel better about yourself. I must have waited for two weeks and it seems as if my life was going down the drain and looked as If there was a real possibly of not get any better anytime soon. I was already depressed and was getting more depressed day after day. Until I turned on the television and was flipping through the channels when I came upon a talk show and heard the phrase, "Ten Things To Do When Your Life Falls Apart". Wow, I thought that they were talking to me!The talk show had Daphne Kingman on and she was explaining to the host how there are times in everyones life where you feel like your whole World is falling apart and you are all alone with no help in sight. Not even a rescue ring! I only caught half of the interview with Daphne but that was all it took for me to order her book.I waited breathlessly for 4 days waiting for the book to arrive. As soon as the postman delivered the book, I must have had the look on my face like a kid on Christmas morning!As soon as I read the first page of the book I felt this over welling feeling of peace and serenity. That there was hope and that there was someone to rescue me from my problems. The opening phrase quoted from Norman Cousins brought to mind that it wasn't the world turning on me it was my attitude towards life that was the problem. I realized that the problems that I were facing were actually my own doings of feelings of despaired and that the world didn't need changing, it was me who needed to change.Thinking about the chances of coming across the interview with Daphne I felt was like one in one million! That to me was a signal that I was supposed to receive and how I came across this talk show when I did was also a sign. I know how crazy that might sound but in the back of my mind it was meant to be. And to add to an even bigger twist to this story is the fact that I'm not a reader! Yes, I read the paper and magazines but have not read a book since I read the story "Alive". A story about a soccer team who's plane crashed on a snowy mountain top and the players were stranded for thirteen months. How they survived for thirteen months you don't want to know.To say the least, I have changed my attitude and so far so good and hopefully I'll never get into the downward spiral ever  The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook  again. I still have problems but after reading Daphne's book I feel that I have been rescued from what might have been a total meltdown!Thank you Daphne for changing the way I was looking at my life and giving me the mental tools in which to change and fix my life.

When confronted by the intermittent harshness or trials of life and the various potholes, detours and roadblocks that present themselves now and then, finding a handy copy of a 'drivers manual for the bumpy road of life' seems almost impossible. It's never quite there when you need it or it takes forever to find it. However, Daphne Kingma's new book, The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart, is an exception. It is handy, truthful and effective.Ms. Kingma has earned my thanks for conceptualizing such a wonderful book that was written from her heart in the most sensitive manner and that so obviously demonstrates her wisdom in approaching life in practical ways. The book overflows with an unmistakable authenticity based on her professional and personal experiences, observations, and know-how. The word crafting Kingma utilizes from beginning to end is second to none. It has a friendly, approachable and accessible style balanced perfectly with a no-nonsense tone and tenor. For me the book expresses a very human voice that speaks through her wise words as though she is narrating it in person. The book is honest and contains no psycho-babble whatsoever. That's not her style and never has been and never will. Once again Daphne Kingma presents her insights in a way that completely captured my attention just as she has in her prior works. I am now reading it for the second time and am captivated by her ability to provide such an effective road map to examine life's challenges and to be better able to move on more successfully.Ms. Kingma has an uncanny ability to present relevant reminders, kind of like a refresher course in some ways, on how to navigate or re-navigate through the unforeseen or unanticipated problems that may have knocked us off track at one time or another. Moving forward is the key as she points out, and she does a great job in providing a multi-dimensional topographic map for the reader to use as a reference guide in order to continue to pursue that objective.....always moving forward. I recommend Daphne Kingma's new book --- whether life, or aspects of it, may seem to be falling apart--- or simply if you are in need of a terrific 'driver's manual' to help you continue your personal road trip with a greater likelihood of successfully reaching your desired destinations. A great read!

At the time I bought this book I was a little bit sceptical. As if this book could really help me overcome anything. No stranger that has never met me can really give me good advice . . . or could they?I admit I probably read this book at the right moment in my life. If I had read it before I was ready to here I might have said it was a load of waffle. But, at the moment in life when I read it, it was exactly what I needed to here and a great help to me in progressing my life forward after being stuck in a rut for so long

This really touched within me at where I was at and how to move on positively. It is written as though she is in the room talking to you. It easy easy to read and digest.

I was expecting a lot more from the book, but this almost does not say anything, except that is okay if you are “fallen apart”. It should be more practical things and examples or something like that.

anything this woman writes is amazing she just doesn't grab you with one good chapter that rings true but every chapter is good