Download PDF The Anatomy of Loneliness How to Find Your Way Back to Connection Audible Audio Edition Teal Swan Tantor Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 7 hours and 12 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Tantor Audio Audible.com Release Date January 30, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07N6JWHJN

The Anatomy of Loneliness How to Find Your Way Back to Connection Audible Audio Edition Teal Swan Tantor Audio Books Reviews

• Teal Swan is prolific. From her detailed blog posts, to her professional videos, to her in-person workshops, Teal is astonishing. Unfortunately, her books are (in my opinion) her weakest point. While the content is great, and will be a huge wake-up call for anyone who takes the time to sit with her words, there are a number of less-than-great aspects to Teal's books versus her other works. Here's a breakdown
  
  Teal's Videos versus Teal's Books
  
  1. Teal's videos go into more details, more examples, and contain visual aids.
  2. Teal's videos span more subjects and cross reference each other effectively.
  3. Teal's spoken voice is beautiful to listen to.
  4. Teal's face is beautiful to watch.
  5. As a professional editor, and author myself, I have to say . . . Teal's writing is often awkward. She is prone to run-on sentences. She doesn't seem to have a professional editor, as there are obvious issues such as the words be aligned to the "right" instead of "full" which I've literally never seen in a published book. She has periods on the outside of quotations instead of the inside. She has sentences which have to be re-read several times before you understand what is being said due to the lack of appropriate commas. Where there ought to be dashes there appears to be hyphens, although it is hard to tell due to the font which is creating a character slightly longer than the average hyphen, but clearly too short to be a proper dash. I haven't noticed any spelling errors in The Anatomy of Loneliness or her other books, but the punctuation errors and formatting errors are frustrating for me.
  
  I say this as a serious Teal fan. I have her tarot deck (which is actually an oracle deck), and I subscribe to premium. I watch all of her workshops, daily update videos, and her weekly Ask Teal video series. I have even made a spreadsheet of her entire Ask Teal series. She is an incredible inspiration. She has very valuable knowledge.
  
  I still recommend this book despite the errors, but I seriously hope Teal's team ensures she gets a good editor before she releases any further books. (They could ask me; I'd love to be the first one to read her work and be involved in the book-creation process with her!) I would hate for anyone to take her less seriously because of stupid formatting/punctuation rules which are not intuitive. I fought against a lot of the "rules" when I was first learning them, as some truly aren't logical . . . But I digress.
  
  ***Here's my point If you are not an avid reader, don't enjoy reading, get confused easily by long sentences, or prefer videos, then subscribe to Teal's premium and get access to all her online workshops and bonus content there. If, on the other hand, you are not into videos and prefer to learn while snuggled up in your favorite reading chair, buy Teal's books.***
  
  For best results, I recommend pausing the video or putting down the book whenever she asks a probing question and either (1) writing down your answers, or (2) having a discussion about your answers with someone else. You'll get a lot more out of her work if you actually do your part and take it in!
  
  Side note about her other books If you're wondering about how The Anatomy of Loneliness compares to Teal's other books, here's the scoop. Teal's first couple of books, The Sculptor in the Sky and Shadows before Dawn, have a very different tone and flow than Teal's two newer books. The first one is the most spiritual. The second one is a little more personal to Teal, but it doesn't go into nearly as much detail about her personal life as her blog posts and interviews; it does have a lot of advice, but again, if you prefer videos, she says all the same stuff (only better) in her videos. The third, however, The Completion Process, is a very valuable guide to a process that Teal invented to delve into your shadows and create healing. So I literally recommend her books in reverse publication order, with The Anatomy of Loneliness being the best, and The Completion Process being second, and so on.
  
  Side note about my experience reading her books as someone who follows all of her online work I do notice that reading the same stuff I've already heard often strikes me entirely differently. I get value out of experiencing the same concept both in video form and book form because it reaches more of my own internal fragments that way.
  
  Hope this detailed review helps!
  ~ Raederle
  The Consciousness Alchemist
• Searching for and feeling without security, love and relatedness have ebbed and flowed in my life without much understanding of what is at work in my mind and what I could do for more access to those things that bring real value to my life and then the lives of others. I have been a professional involved in "working" with others and until Teal I did not see how much I wanted and needed to "work" with who I am. Fasten your seat belt and ride with Teal! Love what she represents to all others and me.
• I wish I could hand out this book to everyone on a street corner! Because we live in a highly fragmented world, loneliness has become an epidemic. It is the single biggest disease we as a collective humanity face today. This read gave me a powerful understanding as to WHY loneliness develops and how it evolves. Additionally, there are sound tools offered for finding your way back to connection. I can't imagine reading this book once. I know I will return to it again and again, each time gaining greater wisdom and understanding. A MUST read!
• This book is well written and very comprehensive. When reading other books or articles that include heavy topics and philosophical ideas, I often find myself needing to reread several lines, paragraphs, or even entire chapters for me to fully grasp the authors main points and ideas. In this book however, so far I have not had any issues. The information is deep and thoughtful but not ambiguous or difficult to understand. And because of the context of this book, like finding connection and understanding loneliness, I find it does an effective job to relay this information to the readers in an easy to understand way.
  I haven't finished the book yet, but I will be editing this one later to give my final thoughts. So far, I think that Teals understanding of loneliness and disconnection is out of this world, and her perspective on it is something I have never seen before, but is really opening my eyes. I can see how badly this world needs connection.
• Most of us are not taught how to process, feel and handle our emotions in a healthy manner, and we thus end up highly disconnected from our own source and true selves. Teal is not only brilliant but wise beyond her years, but she taps into the root cause of loneliness in a way that will help anyone to heal and change their life. I am grateful for Teal's illuminating teachings and who she is in the world. Our planet is in desperate need of healing and a deeper connection. This book is a powerful must-read that will help you re-connect back to yourself. It was a game changer in my life!
• This book is a game changer. Major. There is so much space between us all and Teal explains in detail how we came to be so distant and how we have pushed connection away from ourselves. She gives historical examples to link us into the present. This book is a straightforward and innovative guide on understanding the root of our dysfunction and offers multiple solutions that we can tailor to our own beliefs.
• The Anatomy of Loneliness is for everybody and anybody who is wants to connect with other people. You don't have to be lonely to read it! It gives you all the tool a person needs to address deeply rooted brain washing from the childhood trauma, ancestral trauma and socialization. It explains that these things learned from childhood tend to manifest in our adult relationships, leading someone to feel a sense of disconnect even in a room full of people. This book covers the entire spectrum of loneliness and ultimately leaves you equip to not only develop a connected relationship with others, but yourself! It explains that there is no shame in wanting to feel connected to other people, we are a socially dependent species and we depend on each other! It's okay to want connect! HERE'S HOW!
• I would highly recommend this book.