Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Confidence
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. · 2005
61/100
👎 Skip It
A 63-page Hay House guide by recognized self-help pioneer Barbara De Angelis on genuine confidence and self-sabotage, with a New Age spiritual framing that will resonate with some readers and put others off. At 63 pages it is too brief to go deep, and this specific title has a thin standalone critical footprint even though De Angelis herself has broad name recognition. Existing De Angelis fans may appreciate the quick read; most readers will find better-documented confidence titles worth their time first.
✦ 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: New Age spiritual framing (non-Christian) · limited independent verification. We still scored it 61; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness57
Craft & writing60
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy67
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit68
👁 Human-eye gut-check64
Penny’s verdict61
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