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Doctor Sleep
0,00 €On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing
business in the White House, one of Colorado’s great resort hotels burned to the
ground. The Overlook was declared a total loss. After an investigation, the fire
marshal of Jicarilla County ruled the cause had been a defective boiler. The hotel was
closed for the winter when the accident occurred, and only four people were present.
Three survived. The hotel’s off-season caretaker, John Torrance, was killed during an
unsuccessful (and heroic) effort to dump the boiler’s steam pressure, which had
mounted to disastrously high levels due to an inoperative relief valve.
Two of the survivors were the caretaker’s wife and young son. The third was the
Overlook’s chef, Richard Hallorann, who had left his seasonal job in Florida and
come to check on the Torrances because of what he called “a powerful hunch” that
the family was in trouble. Both surviving adults were quite badly injured in the
explosion. Only the child was unhurt.
Physically, at least.
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Wendy Torrance and her son received a settlement from the corporation that owned
the Overlook. It wasn’t huge, but enough to get them by for the three years she was
unable to work because of back injuries. A lawyer she consulted told her that if she
were willing to hold out and play tough, she might get a great deal more, because
the corporation was anxious to avoid a court case. But she, like the corporation,
wanted only to put that disastrous winter in Colorado behind her. She would
convalesce, she said, and she did, although back injuries plagued her until the end of
her life. Shattered vertebrae and broken ribs heal, but they never cease crying out.
Winifred and Daniel Torrance lived in the mid-South for awhile, then drifted
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Donne che pensano troppo
10,99 €«Il mio cervello non si ferma mai.» Quante volte lo abbiamo detto o sentito dire? Molte donne conoscono fin troppo bene la sensazione di sentirsi soffocare da pensieri, emozioni, preoccupazioni che si accavallano fuori controllo.
Che cosa sto facendo della mia vita?
Cosa pensano gli altri di me?
Perché non sono soddisfatta?
Sarò abbastanza in gamba?
Il mio compagno è ancora interessato a me?
Perché mio figlio mi risponde male?
Perché mi sento così frustrata e ansiosa?
Pensare troppo – ruminazione è il termine corretto – è in effetti prevalentemente una tendenza femminile. Un’abitudine, o meglio una trappola, che come sappiamo non contribuisce a risolvere i problemi, anzi tiene la mente avviluppata in un circolo vizioso. Con conseguenze deleterie sull’umore, l’energia vitale, i rapporti interpersonali e persino la salute.
Grazie a questo chiaro ed efficace metodo, che ha già aiutato milioni di donne a ritrovare la serenità della mente, dare un taglio ai pensieri negativi è possibile. In tre illuminanti step impareremo a mettere in pausa il cervello, per riprendere in mano la nostra vita. Più rilassate e cariche di energie positive, azzereremo gradualmente stress e ansia e miglioreremo le relazioni con il partner, i figli, gli amici, i colleghi. Per sperimentare finalmente la libertà e la felicità di una mente serena.«Il libro cult che ha aiutato milioni
di donne a liberarsi dalle trappole
della mente e a riprendersi la vita.»
The Washington Post