Book Recommendation #1

In Gifts From Eykis, Dr. Wayne Dyer exaggerates many of our human neuroses to the ridiculous. In doing this, Dr. Dyer hits home how "insane" we humans think-forcing you to take a closer look at your everyday thoughts and worries and think twice about validating our feelings of insecurity, blaming others for your current situation and being dishonest.


Eykis is a newscaster of the planet Uranus who delivers the nightly Anxiety-Attack report. Yes, anxiety really does attack the citizens of Uranus because anxiety is microscopic particles that travel in the air and are inhaled as A's, N's and Z's. If Anxiety attacks are not enough, Uranus also has worry-wares (invisable bacteria), blame-busters and dependency diodes. On this absurd planet, all children at the age of three are given Guilt-prodders which will activate the "rewind" so you can do what you should have done in the past and therefore, correct your error or mistake. If you need or want a complex, don't worry, someone can actually give you one.

If you've ever wondered what you would be like if you weren't nuerotic-and let's face it, we're all nuerotic to a certain degree-then, you'll love Gifts from Eykis (HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN#9780062013088) and the story depicted by Dr. Dyer. (www.drwaynedyer.com)

.....Robyn Wheeler is the author of Born Mad, an in-depth view of her struggle with chronic anger, frustration and thoughts of suicide and her eventual diagnosis of Dysthymia.