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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share a summary and my takeaways from the book by Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson --  Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents. Right now, I'm a mental health therapist in training and I've been reading tons of books to help me support and understand my clients better.   Some of these books are really excellent and I thought I'd share a summary and my thoughts since it may help you if you are considering purchasing a book.   In addition, it helps me to better synthesize and understand the information if I share it with you before I share it with my clients. The book I read this time was Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents.  So, I've read a bunch of books about having parents with all kinds of issues: Narcissism, Borderline Personali...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll tell you why I prefer Kindle or ebooks to hard copy or physical books.  This is obviously a super personal decision.  And by that, I mean -- everyone has preferences and it really shouldn't matter to anyone else how you read your books.  That said, I've gotten this question about which reading format I prefer, so I'm going to attempt to answer it.  The one thing I will say is that most people have a natural resistance to change.  Like when, unbeknownst to you, one of your apps is automatically updated and you have to spend a bunch of time figuring  out where everything is again in the new and "improved" version?  That's annoying, right?  Well, I think the same could be said for how we read.  I remember (and this is going to date me), in undergrad I used to write out my papers and essays by hand on many pieces of paper with scratch outs and inserted...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll tell you how I read and take notes on non-fiction books.  This method helps me read faster, retain more information, understand the topic better, and gives me notes to come back to later.  How do you read nonfiction?  Do you read one page at a time starting at the beginning — the way you read fiction?  If so, you are probably doing it wrong.  I wish I could find the article that I read many years ago that changed my thinking on this.  Generally speaking, the point of fiction is to entertain and transport — to tell a story.  Also generally speaking, the point of non-fiction is to convince you of something, present a perspective, or educate you.  Now, in some cases, you WILL be reading non-fiction for enjoyment — like memoirs or history — in which case, use your best judgement and read how you want.  But AGAIN generally speaking, the purpo...