Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Resilience : How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
Boris Cyrulink · 2011
🎙 Narrated by Don Hagen
76/100
👍 Worth It
Cyrulnik writes from direct clinical work with genocide survivors and former child soldiers, and his message that trauma doesn't have to determine destiny is genuinely hopeful and expert-grounded. The original French psychoanalytic style can read dense for a casual self-help audience, so go in expecting something more academic than breezy. Don Hagen's narration is excellent — a multiple award-winner delivering exactly the measured, authoritative tone this material needs.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Don Hagen, a nine-time Peer Award winner and two-time AudioFile Earphones Award winner, delivers a measured, authoritative performance.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing65
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit72
Human-eye read76
Penny’s verdict76
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