The Love Adventures of Almost Smart Cookie (Paperback)

Paperback. It's very confusing for many of today's women to be smart about work but not about love. They wonder why they can see and fix their career missteps, yet they can't transfer these abilities to understand and correct their love errors. The Love Adventures of Almost Smart Cookie, by nationally recognized psychologist and licensed clinical social worker Dr. LeslieBeth Wish, is the product of her worry about this dilemma. For five years, she made it her mission to conduct research, surveys, focus groups, and workshops with more than a thousand women. She discovered along with them so she could offer targeted advice they could trust, and help they could use to read men and themselves better, fight off sex too soon, get mindful of their dating and mating patterns, and understand their family's contribution to their love struggles.Her provocative findings and innovative exercises, which also draw upon the more than 10,000 women she's counseled, are found in her two books: The soon-to-be-released, main self-help book Smart Relationships published by New Horizon Press, and this companion book The Love Adventures of Almost Smart Cookie.Early in her research, Dr. Wish discovered she was not reaching many of the successful women. These women were so gifted with logic and words, that they often responded with, "Yes, but," as they pushed back their chairs and crossed their arms over their chest. And then while Dr. Wish was sleeping, an idea woke her up at three o'clock in the morning. She had to reach these women visually so she could disarm their defenses. She had to invent a cartoon character whose love life showcased the women's most common love mistakes. The Love Adventures of Almost Smart Cookie was born.This book contains 52 cartoon strips, one for every week of the year. Each strip is based on a key research finding and includes three tips. Women can identify with Cookie, a family law attorney, and see their similar missteps. The cartoons spark them to think about some of the top love questions that puzzle them the most: Why do I flip back and forth between men who are too meek and men who are too mean? What's wrong with "swearing off men?" Why can't I trust my judgment about them? How do I recover from emotional hurts more easily-and wisely? Do I really secretly long for a man who offers a "ticket out" of the rat race? By the end of The Love Adventures of Almost Smart Cookie, women will learn to develop fundamental tools for emotional bravery, mindfulness, and honest self-appraisal so they can recover more easily from missteps, make wiser choices in men, and be their best self in love. Dr. Wish's commitment to women has been recognized by the National Association of Social Workers, who named her as One of Fifty who has Contributed to the Field, and by many of the Marquis Who's Who publications, where she is the subject of biographical entries for her pioneering work. For , a Top Ten Health Site, she writes an expert column and serves on their Medical Advisory Board. You can reach her through her website, , where you can also learn about the release date for the main book Smart Relationships. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…