Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Ten Days to Great Self-esteem
David D. Burns · 2000
72/100
👍 Worth It
David Burns is a Stanford psychiatrist and one of CBT's founding voices, and this book was actually tested in hospital group therapy — not just written from an armchair. The ten-day title is a marketing stretch and the approach is entirely secular, but the underlying tools for tackling depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem are solid and proven. Faith readers looking for spiritual integration will need to bring that themselves, but the core content delivers.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety78
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing71
Originality56
Evidence & accuracy77
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit80
👁 Human-eye gut-check72
Penny’s verdict72
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