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I love this book...and the guidebook. This isn't a typical study guide that asks obvious questions that can be easily discerned from just reading the text. It's not a "mindlessly answer the questions" kind of guidebook. No, this one makes one think...and causes one to digest and process the lifechanging truths in the book. I personally enjoyed reading the authors sharing their hearts because it made me feel "normal"...and it made the authors feel human. This book and guidebook are among my most favorite books and most lifechanging.

I am always baffled when I read reviews like the one below. Eldridge's message is so relevant today. I've worked through many workbooks where I sometimes wish I knew how others feel. Sometimes, I just need a jump-start because some of us are dealing with these issues for the first time. I might suggest that if the author's answering of the questions are that loathesome to you, why are you reading his book to begin with?

In addition to the original book being a worthless mixture of New Age spirituality and fantasy references, it seems that the workbook is filled with more references to The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings and other science fiction than there are references to scripture.

This workbook not only has space for YOU to write what you are feeling in your "heart" but the AUTHORS write in what THEY are thinking in the fill-in-the-blank sections. This comes across as egotistical and is distracting. Why should be care how the author feels right now as he is writing it?

A waste of paper, after the first chapter I stopped writing in answers because the authors seemed more interested in sharing with me how THEY felt about THEMSELVES than in helping me to learn about myself. The worst workbook ever.