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Help Yourself - Dave Pelzer

Description: ISBN 000711480X / Genre: Health / Medical / A Child Called It, an autobiographical book, chronicles Pelzer's harrowing experience of child abuse. His follow-up book to that one was The Lost Boy and concerned his life in foster homes. Dave Pelzer willed himself to overcome the ... more

Help Yourself - Dave Pelzer ... worst life had to offer (his case of child abuse was one of the worst recorded cases in US history) and became the best he could be. Help Yourself weaves in stories from Pelzer's own experiences with the principles he has discovered on how to survive difficulty

Newest Review: ... reader can understand and accept this man's testimony because he is a living example of courage overcoming adversity. ... more

... Dave Pelzer is an extraordinary man, and this is an extraordinary book. It is a life changing book. It is written with compassion and with complete direct honesty - it hits home. It enables the reader to view his/her problems differently, he encourages the reader to really see how to help him/herself. This book is inspirational and challenging, making the reader question everything, the past, the present and the future. In the book Dave Pelzer takles subjects such as positive self-talk and escaping negative environ...more

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Help Yourself - Dave Pelzer: Help Yourself to a Better Life (377 words)
by kitty_x17 - written on 26/06/04 (Very useful, 140 readings)
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Dave Pelzer has written a number of autobiographic books detailing the abuse he suffered as a child. The first book 'A Child Called It' is a very difficult and heartbreaking book to read, as it details his childhood abuse by his mother. The further books detail his adolescence and in particular his life in foster care and then adult life. In 'Help Yourself' Dave Pelzer uses his own experiences of abuse to empower the reader and he does so in a very down-to-earth and honest way, the reader can understand and accept this man's testimony because he is a living example of courage overcoming adversity. Dave Pelzer is an extraordinary man, ...