Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
You Are Not Alone
Debbie Augenthaler · 2018
76/100
👍 Worth It
A Foreword INDIES award winner that earns its recognition — Debbie Augenthaler brings both lived experience and clinical credentials to a grief guide that manages to feel personal and practically useful at once. The four-section structure gives grieving readers a navigable path, and the mix of poetry, prose, and meditation offers multiple entry points. The eclectic spiritual framework and emotional intensity mean it is best suited to readers who come to it when they are ready, not immediately after a loss.
✦ 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: Eclectic spiritual framework (Eastern philosophy, energy healing) — not explicitly Christian. We still scored it 76; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety75
substance82
craft78
originality72
accuracy80
hype74
age-fit82
human-eye76
Penny’s verdict76
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