Given that for me, 2023 has just been one trauma after another, this is a book where I really benefited in the reading. I don't know how many takeaways I'll be able to apply but I'm so grateful to have been given the opportunity to read The Kindness Method.

Really enjoyed this! I struggle with anxiety and am always looking for books on kindness and positivity!

It was quite inspiring and I do feel like it helped me become more clear with my current self. Although I don’t believe that just this book can solve everything drastically, it’s all a journey :)

This is the kind of coaching and inspiration the world needs right now. There isn’t much that can’t be improved with kindness. Easy to absorb the key principles and ideas with practical applications. Would make a lovely gift for the kind people in your life!

I thought this book would be useful to me, and. I'm sure the advice is good but I couldn't finish the book. Just wasn't for me.

Great ideas and a nice writing style but ultimately didn’t have the same effect on me as the author!

Really like the idea of allowing ourselves to be kind, not just to others but to ourselves. We all beat ourselves up to a greater or less extent and sometimes a little kindness can work wonders. Nice ideas and something that can be returned to whenever needed.

A non-judgemental book that will encourage you to change habits for the greater good. By mapping and channelling energies elsewhere this book encourages you to form a new way of thinking and being.

Shahroo Izadi has developed this method via her experience of working with clients with addictions. But this method isn’t just for addictions – it about changing any habit and can just as easily be applied to taking up something, such as getting fit, as giving something up.

The book provides a new way of addressing problems you have with yourself and is, in my opinion, life changing. Habits make us who we are – some habits are good and some bad. This book allows you to look inward and begin to pick apart the aspects of our self that are damaging and don’t serve us. You will learn a lot about yourself reading this book – you might not like what you learn but you are given the tools to change. A masterpiece.

This is quite a special book - it encourages you to be a bit kinder to yourself which is something we all need a bit more of. I'm not usually into self-help books but this one is really worth a read.

The author is an expert in her field, with extensive personal experience of going through a range of traditional therapies that only work with help and guidance.

As readers we can be reassured that this is one self-help book worth reading and try to follow her guidance as no therapist is neccesary, just a willingness to read work care.

Another reason we can be reassured is that there is a realistic long-term effort required that becomes part of your daily routine and is not a 'quick fix' promise as is often the case.

I recommend this to all self-help readers and anyone in therapy, to work on alongside traditional methods. The method helps create sense out of chaos and requires only a little effort once you have laid your foundations. One that's easy to add to a busy day.

I was given the novel free by netgalley.com for my fair and honest review.

I think that The Kindness Method really tries to be something that it is not. And because of that, it really would have benefitted from an increased specificity in its editing, writing and marketing to turn it from something that falls short on providing advice to huge swaths of the population, to a book that would have successfully addressed the negative thought-patterns associated with cycles of addiction. I don’t really understand why the book did not try to emphasise/singularly focus on/hone in on that specific idea - especially with Shahroo Izadi’s background in substance abuse treatment! - because it would have been far more successful than the blurred, unfocused, inapplicable book that it ended up being.

Ii must apologise for not being able to review this book after you so kindly accepted my request. I have had an unfortunately challenging time, but am now free to resume reading and reviewing. I hope that you will not hold my difficulties against me in future requests

I feel wrong calling this a self-help book as it was very different to the others I have read, jumped through sections in or flicked through. I am not new to the genre or well versed in it, but something struck me with The Kindness Method, as it just comes across as very honest. It is not hard to read and it is structured in a really easy, open and simple to follow way. One thing about the book is it is a slow read, but this is only because if you want to truly do it properly it will take you time. I have to admit I am close to the end but not there yet as I still keep working on all of the wonderful exercises that are broken down and that really do help. It's an odd thing to see such a change, but I really do, and I want to go out and buy all my friends who come to be with advice this book with a nice new notepad and a set of super colourful felt tips. The book does focus on habits that you would like to break but can really easily transfer to a lot of areas as it focuses on changing your thought process and being more positive about yourself and working towards your goals, which most people will struggle with at some point of their lives. One that I would definitely recommend, but has to be accompanied with a stationary shopping trip and maybe more than once as the more time you spend with this book the more you will gain.

What a truly helpful self-help book. I read this in a couple of days and now feel armed to make my maps and reflections on what to do and how, to achieve the goals I want.
The writer has filled me with excitement and anticipation at all I am about to achieve.
I can’t wait to get started on my journey to becoming a new me and will keep this book close at hand to see me through.

Some good advice tucked inside the covers of this book.

If you feel like things need to change in your life, then the opening question in this book should pique your interest and have you hooked by following the advice that Shahroo Izadi gives. It starts like this, “How many times have you embarked on a plan of change, only to run out of steam within weeks? How often do you notice habits emerging that you’re not particularly proud of?”

I found some of the chapters particularly interesting, like the one on “The Snapshot Letter.” This is the letter that you write listing all the things you’d like to change in your life. A template is supplied which is easy to follow. Another idea is mapping your problems/addictions.

I think that a lot of people would benefit from reading this book and following some of the exercises. However, I don’t think 100% results will be achieved unless there is also support from either a group or counsellor. However, I hope I’m proved wrong and that this book helps many people overcome the habits causing issues in their lives.

Imbali

Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.

I read a lot of self help books as i suffer with debilitating mental illnesses.

This is probably of the better ones that i have read, but its all forumlaic because everybodys advice is pretty much the same.

This book does get you to concentrate on self, to put yourself above others and realise that it is not selfish to do so. Be kind to yourself is about say coming home on a friday after work and thinking phew glad that week is over, im going to have a long bubble bath, put my pyjamas on, watch a film, read a book, draw, paint, whatever you love and refresh your soul.

Really enjoyed it

Self-help book for learning how to change bad habits that are having a negative impact on your life.

I found this book interesting in places, but as a "self-help" book it is a bit dry. It is the sort of book that I will go back to though.

I really like the concept behind this book as I know it's important to be kind to oneself but it's something that I personally find very hard to do. For this reason, I do believe this book is full of hidden gems and slices of apt and enlightening advice, but I personally would have prefered the book to have a slightly more simple structure. I found the 'map' concept pretty confusing to follow and just feel the whole book could have been distilled slightly into a more streamlined narrative.

I haven't finished it and not sure if I will. As someone else mentions it seems more a showcase for the writer than a practical tool for stopping something harmful. Sorry but my fiction lured me back.....