Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Fight Back
Mike Oglesbee · 2020
55/100
👎 Skip It
Oglesbee's three-part structure is clear and his personal experience with anxiety adds genuine credibility to the practitioner voice. But hypnotherapy and NLP don't carry the evidence base of CBT-based approaches, the Balboa Press self-publishing route means limited editorial oversight, and readers with faith concerns about hypnotherapy will need to evaluate carefully. For open-minded readers the practical techniques may help; for everyone else stronger evidence-based options exist.
✦ 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: Hypnotherapy and NLP are central therapeutic tools; some Christian readers view hypnotherapy as spiritually concerning. Not evidence-based in the CBT sense.. We still scored it 55; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness52
Craft & writing60
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy45
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit72
👁 Human-eye gut-check52
Penny’s verdict55
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