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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

Anxiety Rx

Russell Kennedy · 2024
🎙 Narrated by Russell Kennedy
76/100
👍 Worth It

Russell Kennedy's body-alarm framework — rooting anxiety in somatic trauma signals rather than runaway thoughts — is a genuinely fresh lens that earns its distinction from the pile of CBT repackaging on the shelf. His physician-neuroscientist credentials and his own recovery story give the approach real credibility, and the nearly fifteen-hour runtime delivers depth that shorter anxiety books rarely manage. Kennedy narrating his own work keeps the warmth and authority intact; the brief mention of hallucinogen-assisted therapy in clinical context is worth flagging for some households but is not the book's focus.

✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Brief positive mention of hallucinogens in clinical context — some parents/faith households may object to this framing; content itself is not promotion. We still scored it 76; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.

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🎙 Narration: excellent Author-narrated with a warm, conversational tone — listeners describe it as talking with a knowledgeable friend; the long runtime is easy to absorb.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing76
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy74
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit78
👁 Human-eye gut-check76
Penny’s verdict76
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