Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Freedom From Anxiety
Paul McKenna · 2023
🎙 Narrated by Paul McKenna
58/100
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The 18 downloadable hypnotherapy exercises give this more practical weight than the three-hour runtime alone would suggest, and McKenna's deliberately calm, measured voice is itself a therapeutic tool — but if you have read any of his previous work, the ground will feel very familiar, and the short runtime cannot support a comprehensive anxiety program. Best treated as a sampler or entry point rather than a complete solution.
✦ 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.
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🎙 Narration: good McKenna's calm hypnotherapist delivery is a deliberate and effective part of the therapeutic design; the voice is the format.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety76
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing66
Originality51
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit65
👁 Human-eye gut-check56
Penny’s verdict58
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