Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic

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• NOT A HEAVY SELF-HELP READ. SUPER ACCESSIBLE AND UPBEAT: One of the greatest strengths of this book is its tone. It is light, personable, funny and accessibly human. Content is not overly deep nor abstract and will appeal to a wide, general audience.

• PERFECT FOR THE READER WANTING QUICK SHIFTS AND IMMEDIATE IMPACT: Better Days moves well beyond ideas, teaching active methods and dozens of applicable techniques one can use to immediately tame your inner critic.

• AMAZING AUTHOR NETWORK SUPPORT AND FAN BASE CROSS-PROMOTION WITH WIFE AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ANNE LAMOTT: Authors wife, Anne Lamott, who has contributed the Forward for Better Days, is a powerful NYT bestselling author and speaker. The synthesis between her work and Neal Allens naturally presents numerous co-teaching, co-promotional opportunities for this power couple. Anne Lamotts platform includes 250K Twitter 665K Facebook 200K Instagram in addition to Neals growing online presence. Annes organic audience is heavily weighted toward people seeking tools for emotional ease, and her best-selling books cover much of the same territory as Better Days, addressing universal stories of suffering and redemption.

• NUMEROUS LIVE AND ONLINE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND BOOK TOUR: Currently scheduled 6 live national/international events and 12 online events and speaking engagements co-hosted with wife, author and speaker Anne Lamott. Online events will host a typical audience of 1000 people while live events will host thousands more. The couple will also hold immersive workshops and retreats in various locations which will be professionally filmed and released as online courses.

• STRONG PODCAST COVERAGE: Author, Neal Allen, is booked to appear on numerous podcasts on relevant topics relating to taming the voice in the head, ending procrastination and imposter syndrome and building self-esteem.

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No other system has ever so efficiently broken through my lifelong sense of isolation as the work you are about to encounter, and at the same time, been so welcoming and even fun. Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you were born to be. - Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird by Bird and others

"In Neal Allens book, youll find a tool to help meet one of the most daunting challenges to a better life: that voice that has taken up residence inside you and berates, cajoles, warns you every step of the way. The tool can help you sleep better, work better, help you find a sense of ease in your life."- Jeff Greenfield, Author and veteran TV network political analyst

What if love is just the way things are when Im not separated from things Neal Allen asks us at the end of this luminous jewel of a book. With penetrating clarity and lightheartedness, the author walks us through a remarkably accessible and effective method for dismantling the critical voice that has convinced almost all of us that we are separate and doomed. The spaciousness and ease that flow into the space that bossy little gremlin used to take up transform daily life from an anxious trudge into a tender adventure. Highly recommended. - Mirabai Starr, Author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy

I happened to read Better Days on a day that was not one of my best and found such help in Allen's simple, direct, and above all, useful insights. Reading this book feels like having a wise and keenly observant uncle tell you everything they've learned about how to not be miserable. If you're ready to stop being an asshole to yourself and need more than fluffy affirmations, this book is for you. - Nadia Bolz-Weber, podcast host of The Confessional, author of Shameless

There are great tools here to step out of the clutches of the critical inner voices that undermine your true spirit. Tame the critic and open the gate to inner well-being. Neal takes you by the hand and leads you out of the thicket and brambles of self-criticism to the meadow of well-being. Let him guide you. - Jack Kornfield, Author of A Path With Heart

"A playful and compassionate book about confronting the mental chatter that keeps us from mental peace and quiet. Neal Allen writes as a friend and guide ready to put an arm around you and say, Lets see if we can get the neighbors to pipe down a bit. Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of No Cure For Being Human (And Other Truths I Need To Hear)and Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies Ive Loved)

"This book is an invitation to separate the helpful parts of what we call our ego from the defensive, self-righteous, and sullen parts of it that no longer serve us. Allen shows readers that there is a more joyful, honest, and peaceful way to exist once the harsh critic within is understood and transformed." - Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Life

"In Better Days, the mean, soul-crushing voice we all endure is addressed by Neal Allen with grace and wisdom born of direct experience. His kind voice models all that he is teaching so that as we read, we are steeped in kindness itself. Beautiful.- Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Women Food and God

Author Bio

Neal Allen is a writer, spiritual coach and speaker whose chief interest is removing obstacles of the ego. He is the author of Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You (Self Published, 2021), and Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic (Namaste Publishing, 2023). A former journalist and corporate executive, he earned masters degrees in Political Science and Eastern Classics. He lives with his wife the writer, Anne Lamott, in Northern California. Anne Lamott is the author of many best sellers. Her seven novels include Rosie and Imperfect Birds. Her twelve non-fiction works include Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, Help Thanks Wow, and most recently, Dusk Night Dawn. She lives in Northern California with her husband and author of Better Days, Neal Allen.