The Self Care Prescription

Powerful Solutions to Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety & Increase Well-Being

By: Robyn L. Gobin PhD

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Real self-care practices to enrich every part of your life

Picture your best life: Where would you work? What would your social calendar look like? What personal interests would you be exploring? This book is your prescription to turn those visions into a reality - with proven self-care strategies for every area of your life. 

The Self Care Prescription empowers you to find balance and purpose in your relationships, work, and life. From creating a plan to spend more time with family and friends, to zeroing-in on a career that you can feel good about, the book will help you create a personalized self-care plan. You’ll also learn actionable techniques to fight anxiety, demotivation, or whatever else is holding you back from building the life you want to live. 

The Self Care Prescription includes: 

• Self-care 101 - Learn what “self-care” really means, and how you can start practicing it every day.
• A full-spectrum plan - Bring self-care to the physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, vocational, and social areas of your life.
• Best-life strategies - Unwind with mindfulness breathing practices or start eating right with healthy meal planning - you’ll find tons of actionable self care techniques to help you reach your goals.

Be the friend you want to be to yourself and others. Be engaged with what you do. Whatever self-care means to you, you’ll find your own personal practice in this book. 

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. 

©2019 Robyn L. Gobin (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

This is just I needed!

This book is wonderful!
Anyone who is struggling with setting boundaries for themselves, and keeps putting everything and everyone in front of their own needs.... NEEDS to listen to this book.
VERY helpful to guide those individuals, even the ones with the best of intentions, to do better for themselves but seem to not follow through with their self care regimen.
I definitely recommend this book!

PDF not helpful

The accompanying pdf was worthless! many pages missing. she would say "see page 12 of pdf" but it's starts on page 23 skips to page 42 then is in order. really wanted to WORK thru this book with the pdf. super bummed.

I loved it!

This is a all time keeper for me. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and all the wisdom within its pages and, because i enjoyed it so much. I have decided to make it a bi-weekly routine of mine to listen to it while driving for work. Kudos to the author for all of her hard work also to the narrator who did and excellent job. Thank you both!

Activities Involved

Great self help info. I really liked the narrator's voice. There are activities involved with the listening. If you plan to listen in the car or while doing other activities, you may need to relisten to get the most out of it.

Very helpful!

I really loved it. The contents were very thought-provoking and it was an excellent read. I will be happy to refer it to other people.

outdated information

The author did not take vegans and vegetarians into consideration before writing this book. She shares misleading, outdated nutritional advise. Disappointing.

Good when you can't be fully focused

Meh

It was just alright, some important good key points and important stuff, but not worth all the listen.

Not a fan of the narration

I had to stop listening because of the narration. Narrator had an accent which made it harder to digest the material.

PDF is flawed and it still hasn't been fixed!!!

Nothing new if you are familiar with self-development books etc. But a useful list of ideas and food for thought to jumpstart adding changes to your life. A big shame that the PDF has missing pages and despite other reviews already pointing this out, publisher has not corrected it.

not for me

written for uninitiated mom culture. this feels like a listicle expanded into 5 hours of rehashed content and empty advice that can easily be found for free on your favorite insta influencers page.

if you want real advice for self care this book is just cartoonish.

love love love this book.

I have listened to it twice now and it is helping me so much. This is one of those books that will help you feel brilliant all the time.

Enjoyed this book

This was a nice easy book to listen to and gave several resources.
I always listen on 1.4 speed and found this made the book more acceptable for listening.

Powerful solutions,not really, basic solutions

There is some basic advice in this book with the PDF that still has missing parts.
If you're starting out then yes it would be an okay 1st book. But there are other resources online that have CBT/DBT worksheets ,emotion wheels for "naming to tame" emotions and things like "tapping" (EFT or Neuromastery / Clarity process experience ), somatic experiencing,havening ,"the basic exercise" & the Sedona method for processing emotions when the basics of this book may fail you because your life is more complex. (affirmations tend not to work when it feels like you're lying to yourself,there's research on it backfiring & talking about one's issues doesn't help everyone especially if there's trauma involved)

She does give the odd example which may/may not be too long winded to be practical at times.
Would not recommend this book to anyone with a (life limiting) health condition or if they feel fatigue,mainly because doing all the steps isn't going to be possible and sustainable. Better advice would be : find something that is healthy for you that you find fun and try to maintain it,when that's become a routine , move on to small steps towards another healthful activity (preferably with others for social accountability) and see if you can get a balance between the two,keep going at a pace that suits you until you have covered the main categories social,diet,emotional,physical... try to go outside your comfort zone to find new things that you enjoy.

Glad it was free,was more basic than the title let on.Narration didn't help make it any better.

Terrible narrator

It's a terrible narrator, it sounds like a child is reading this book. It was really hard to get through the book and focus on the content even though the content in itself probably is fairly good.

Brilliant

Everything I needed to hear. Incredibly uplifting and well read. Definitely one to share with friends.

Full workbook PDF is not included

Couldn’t work along with the book due to the workbook not being included, PDF only includes some pages.
Narrator has a beautifully soothing voice though and there’s some helpful information.