Room Reader

REVIEWS are in next paragraph.

Hannah Jackson - Room Reader - can read your mind in your ornaments, pictures, furniture and rooms to help transform your life. What does your room say about you? With this book, you may well discover the answer as you learn how to mind-read rooms. In Room Reader’s 36 chapters you will follow the gently charming Hannah as she takes you through being a devout Catholic with volatile, teenage, shift-worker parents - the second of four girls - and how she practised, aged seven, her “special game” in her bedroom with toys, a blanket, space, and sunlight. This cheered her and her room-sharing sister, and Room Reading began. Room Reader provides many examples of how our minds are reflected in ornaments, pictures, furniture and personal space via two people who have addictions; a woman with post-natal depression; a family suffering loss; a fellow with impotence (fixing all his - door - knobs and handles was a part of his cure); body issues (an obese woman saved without diets or gym); a dog-lover gone too far; and those stuck in a past or future time; Hannah analyses Kim Kardashian (why we're obsessed with her); why did the billionaire Steve Jobs insist on a bare mansion for his family with e.g. his children’s beds having to be sneaked into the home (Hollywood films on Jobs never touched this); Hannah analyses Elton’s gay parenting; the religious iconography supporting white supremacy in black homes (how - again, just using the black woman’s ornaments and pictures - the woman went from agoraphobic to inviting Hannah out into town.

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“Reviews (pre-publication)” come in the first pages from: a top film critic, actress, interior designer, singer, social worker, headmaster, Iraqi war survivor, US publisher, producer, etc, and to round off, here’s George Dimitrov, a Member of the Standard Committee of British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), American Psychological Association (APA), speaker, published author: “There is an ongoing debate in socio/psychological circles: Does our environment affect our thinking or does our thinking affect our environment? Therefore, it was a great pleasure to come across so many stories of such clarity demonstrating how the answer is ‘both’. In fact, Room Reader has inspired me to have my therapeutic sessions inside a client’s property whenever I can. I am learning that there is no point guiding someone in one direction if, for example, a picture or ornament they look at is constantly and silently guiding them in another. Understanding this, allows me to try to help clients by suggesting psychological and environmental changes so one can support the other. And Hannah Jackson’s enjoyable, jargon-free and, crucially, evidence-based dramatisations of the stories of Hannah’s own clients only serve to confirm my own very positive experiences with Room Reading.”