Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
Tian Dayton · 2013
🎙 Narrated by Elizabeth Hanley
72/100
👍 Worth It
Dayton, a clinical psychologist, does solid work connecting childhood trauma from addiction and family dysfunction to adult relationship patterns, and the emotional-literacy tools feel genuinely practical. The research-heavy stretches can run dry if you're not coming in with a psychology background, so it's a bit of a slower listen in places. Elizabeth Hanley's narration is professional and appropriate for the clinical tone.
✦ 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: Discusses addiction, abuse, and family dysfunction as mature subject matter, though handled clinically rather than graphically. We still scored it 72; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: fine Elizabeth Hanley narrates for Audible Studios; no specific praise or complaints found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing65
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit85
Human-eye read68
Penny’s verdict72
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