#BookReview Banish the Blues by Catherine Carrigan #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog

‘Banish the Blues’ by Catherine Carrigan #RBRT

My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

I am the first to congratulate anyone who can turn their health and wellbeing around using natural healing, so I was excited to read Banish the Blues, by an author who has lived through depression and been clear of medication for 22 years.

The author knows her subject matter and has taken great care and attention to detail when collating the information and advice for this book.

Banish the Blues, is set out as five ‘books’ divided into short chapters. In the introduction, Carrigan explains her personal story and the journey to recovery that she began many years ago. It is written from the heart, and anyone who has been touched by depression will be able to resonate with her words.

The advice from the author is straight forward and clearly laid out. I did like the section about flower essences and will look into this more for my own health and wellbeing. There is a lengthy (23 pages) bibliography at the back of the book as an abundant resource for further reading.

Unfortunately, it felt more like a directory than a self-help book, and I would have liked the author to have gone much deeper into each area. She began with her personal journey, and I was hoping for more of an explanation of her specific experience and how she transferred her lessons to real-life events. The endless pages of symptom lists became slightly monotonous for me. Although there is plenty of useful information for the reader to take away from this title, it didn’t quite deliver what I had hoped for.

I gave Banish the Blues a rating of 3 out of 5 stars.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review via Rosie’s Book Review Team #RBRT

The Blurb:

Banish the Blues NOW addresses HEALING DEPRESSION WITHOUT DRUGS using NATURAL HEALING remedies. FOREWARD by Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C) Editor, The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine 

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