The Conscious Bride: Women Unveil Their True Feelings About Getting Hitched (Women Talk About) Book

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by: Sheryl Nissinen

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Average Rating: Rating: - Essential for all brides This book is essential for every bride to be and for anyone who has been a bride. I found this book 3 years after I was married...I only wish it was available around the time of my wedding! It would have helped me so much! Reading it now, it helped me to realize that the crazy feelings I was having were ok and even normal. Some of the things I could do without in the book: the frequent references to mythology and the way the author seemed to imply that in some ways you would become different after the wedding...(I am almost tempted to encourage brides to read this book well after their wedding for that reason). A great self-help bridal book to help deal with the roller coaster of feelings, emotions, and changing states of mind of the bride. Rating: - Excellent book for -anyone- who is engaged Upon hearing of my engagement (about a month ago), a friend of mine who was six months into her planning immediately wrote back to me and said, "I'm sending you this book!" I must admit, I still haven't finished it because I find parts of it ringing so true with things I wasn't even aware that I was feeling. I end up crying and needing time just to sit and think through what I've read. In recognizing that sad, angry, and upsetting feelings can (and perhaps even should) accompany engagements in addition to the socially-accepted pleasant ones, this book gives the reader permission to feel a whole range of emotions, all of which must be experienced to make the "transformation" from single to married complete. In working life, I'm a Ph.D. clinical psychologist, and sadly have never encountered anything like this book in all of my training or experience- I have been praising it to friends and colleagues alike. This book addresses a very specific but very important issue, and I would highly recommend it to anyone - male or female, of any age - who is engaged and wants to better understand the often unrecognized emotional turmoil that can accompany getting married. Rating: - Not Nearly as Insightful as I Hoped I was looking forward to a thoughtful & interesting read given the reviews I had seen. However, I have found the book to be fairly mediocre. The ideas within were not terribly original, especially given the author spends half the book quoting other sources. The strongest feature of the book is the interviews Nissinen conducted with various brides and married women. They are quite interesting and I wish more of the book had been devoted to them. In their abbreviated state they only serve to support the book's weak theories. They are watered down into soundbites, rather than rich experiences. Nissinen almost exclusively focuses on the negative feelings of being a bride, making this a difficult read. A more balanced focus on the emotions the future bride might be experiencing would be more useful. The reader is left feeling badly if s/he feels at all positive about the upcoming wedding. The author spends the rest of the time harping on the myth of Persephone & her marriage to the god of the underworld. It seems irrelevant to the modern reader. It comes across as a sophomoric attempt at a college psychology thesis rather than an insightful, fresh take on the subject matter. I think this is an ideal read if you believe in Jungian ideas about myth. However, if you seek a modern, interesting, balanced, thought provoking read, I would look elsewhere.

The Conscious Bride: Women Unveil Their True Feelings About Getting Hitched (Women Talk About) Book

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