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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll give you my summary and takeaways from the book called Exaholics: Breaking Your Addiction to an Ex Love by Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm now a mental health therapist in residence and I have been reading as many books as I can on every condition, every human issue, every disorder so that I can be as helpful as possible to my clients.  And I figured, if I'm going to read these books -- I should share my summaries with you, so here goes. The book I read most recently is about Love Addicts, which the author, Lisa Marie Bobby, calls Exaholics.  The reason this book appeals to me is that after hearing account after account of the loss, grief, and anxiety that people go through after break-ups, it started to occur to me that love was pretty similar to an addiction -- and that breakups felt a lot like withdrawal.  This book is, by no means, the only one to make this claim, there are lots, but...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll share how I take notes when I am listening to audiobooks using a handheld recorder. I listen to a lot of audiobooks.  And for whatever reason, I prefer listening to non-fiction rather than fiction.  The problem is that it's much harder to take notes while I'm listening to a book.  And if you've seen any of my other videos, you'll know that in order to retain anything, I *have* to take notes since I have a world class bad memory.  I have tried lots of options, which I'll recount for you: First I tried using the bookmarks in the audiobook to mark passages that I want to go back to. This doesn't work for me.  First of all, it's kind of dangerous since I'm usually driving while I'm listening, plus it's never clear to me whether the bookmark starts earlier than when you hit it, so I'm always having to back up the audio, and let's be honest, I nev...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share how I speed up audio files using an iOS app called Audipo. I think this is my 3rd video on speeding up the playback of videos or audiobooks.  What can I say?  I prefer to listen at about 1.5 speed generally!   Recently I've been working a lot with audio files since many of the trainings that I've been doing offer only the options of listening to the training in a browser or downloading the audio.  Both of these options are problematic to me.  Listening in the browser is annoying since the sound doesn't always continue when you switch away from the browser and the controls are tiny and awkward.  Downloading the audio file means I can switch to another app while it's playing, but I have almost no controls in the standard iOS audio player.  There is not even a way to fast forward or rewind, let alone change the playback speed. So, I went looking...