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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

Gratitude and Trust : Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Paul Williams & Tracey Jackson · 2014
🎙 Narrated by Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson (self-narrated)
76/100
👍 Worth It

Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson bring two honest angles — one from decades of sobriety, one from someone who's never struggled with addiction — to build six down-to-earth affirmations for everyday dysfunction like perfectionism and fear of failure. It's a NYT bestseller with an Anne Lamott endorsement for good reason, even if the twelve-step language leans more universal-spiritual than scripture-specific. The narration is a real plus: both authors read it themselves, so it feels like a genuine conversation rather than a lecture.

✦ 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 Self-narrated by both co-authors, giving a personal, conversational, dual first-person delivery.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing75
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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