Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Freedom from Anxiety
Harry Kroner · 2015
55/100
👎 Skip It
Kroner's four-phase framework — understanding, shifting, reclaiming, transforming — gives the book more structural coherence than a lot of holistic wellness titles, and the approach addresses multiple dimensions of anxiety rather than just symptoms. But the Balboa Press self-publishing origin, New Age spiritual framing, and absence of clinical peer review make it hard to stand behind as a first recommendation when clinically vetted CBT workbooks are widely available. Best suited to readers specifically seeking a spiritual rather than evidence-based approach.
✦ 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 (soul healing, releasing limiting beliefs) — not aligned with any specific faith tradition; may not suit readers seeking secular evidence-based CBT approaches or readers from conservative faith backgrounds. We still scored it 55; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety80
substance52
craft55
originality55
accuracy45
hype65
age-fit80
human-eye50
Penny’s verdict55
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