Why is This Happening to Me...Again?!: ...and What You Can Do about It!

I didn't know just how much I was going to be hooked by this book until I started reading it. I am a very spiritual person with much read time, prayer and meditation behind me and I felt this book gave me further insight into much more for me. It also helped me further understand reality and actuality. It is a book that you won't be able to put down. Such a enhancement to anyone's library to enhance your life.

Bought this as a gift for my teen-age son because he uses the title phrase often! In leafing through it, discovered the worksheets at the end of the book and started using them to journal - they DO work - especially after reading the book. Dr Ryce does simplify things to make his points; however, the book resonated loudly for me. Better yet, it resonated for my son. Other reviewers can say what they want about the stature of this book in relation to some others out there, but it was well worth the price of this book for the worksheets alone.

This book was given to a friend of mine. One lQQk at it shouted out "SAME OLD-SAME OLD" & a glance through seemed to confirm this. I was especially unimpressed to see that it had been self-published & that most of the reviews quoted were just people like me. I haven't even read the "Celestine Prophecy," (whose author wrote the cover's leading rave) nor do I intend to- the word "prophesy" belonging with all the other metaphysical mumbo-jumbo that passes for 'self-help' or 'spirituality' these days. More red flags: the author/publisher refuses to capitalize his name, & even worse! uses the title 'dr.' (he is not an M.D.- his doctorates-small 'd' are in 'naturopathy & holistics.However reluctantly, I did promise to give it a 'once-over' for my friend who knows that I enjoy a 'good' self-help read (such as "Messie No More" which really did help me to clean up my act.)As expected, I found the writing very amateurish, consisting of a feigned intensive conversation between the author and a man suffering from 'failed relationships syndrome.' Much of it seems to be bits & pieces of standard self-help information, just re-packaged for the vocabulary & attention span challenged. My only real disagrement arose over the author's insistence that we are created for a world of love. He presents this as a simple fact that just is - no justification necessary. But who's perfect? I decided to just ignore this & get to the worksheets that were promised to change my life.So you can imagine my surprise when they actually did!!! Well, perhaps not my whole life, but certainly my thinking about some issues that had been bothering me for a long, long time. That is all I can tell you about this book, except that I am now ordering my own copy!

In reading this book I could see myself and that I am not the only one who feels the way I do. It was neet to see how Richard applied what Dr. Ryce taught him, I am doing some of the same things he did, and can now see a way to work out of the conflict I've been in for so long. This is how you spell relief, its working. I am doing the worksheets from the last chapter and things are changing. I've read every self help book I could find over the last ten years and this is the best one yet. James Redfield was right, I think this is going to change my life forever.Thank You Michael.

As a physician I was tremendously impressed with this enjoyable book. Dr. Ryce is clear and concise, breathing life into an interview between himself and "Richard", a character-synthesis of 25 years of consulting with and teaching thousands of individuals in conflict. The conflict is often developed through and in a relationship(s). Dr. Ryce shows us, through Richard, the power of our minds and the need to accept full responsibility for each and every moment in our life. We are guided on a journey of acceptance of ourselves and others and we come to the realization that every instant can be seen as a chance to learn...and grow.Personally, the teachings in this excellent book transformed my life and I have since recommended it to hundreds of my patients/clients. I've even referred several of them to Dr. Ryce's summer seminars in the Ozark Mountains and each has come back filled with gratitude, their vision of "reality" changed forever. If you are serious about taking control of your mind and life, get this book and dive into a new and beautiful world of forgiveness and love.