Breslin, Cathy

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Breslin, Cathy

PERSONAL: Female.

ADDRESSES: Home—Naas, County Kildare, Ireland. Office—Monread Clinic, 165 Monread Heights, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland. E-mail—info@cathybreslin. com.

CAREER: Monread Clinic, Naas, Ireland, counselor and hypnotherapist; Powerful Perspectives, Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, chief executive officer. Frequent guest on radio and television programs.

WRITINGS:

(With Judy May Murphy) Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better: A Practical Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams, Health Communications (Deerfleld Beach, FL), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Cathy Breslin wrote her first book, Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better: A Practical Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams, with Judy May Murphy. Breslin is an Irish hypnotherapist and life coach who has counseled many clients into improving their lives by using a technique called Neuro Linguistic Programming. These changes include, but are not limited to, losing weight, quitting smoking, overcoming phobias, and increasing self-confidence. Her advice includes tips for adopting better life skills, managing anger and stress, and utilizing self-hypnosis.

Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better is an interactive book that includes study tips, exercises, and lists that encourage readers to actively participate in becoming a new person. Though a reviewer for Publishers Weekly called the authors' tone "relentlessly chipper," Deborah Bigelow, writing in Library Journal, praised the book, calling its "hip, breezy style" "contagious." Breslin, who once suffered from anorexia nervosa, considers herself living proof of how the guide works, as long as readers are willing to make the commitment to personal change by shedding self-defeating behaviors and adopting more useful habits.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Chicago Tribune, August 15, 2005, Allan Johnson, review of Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better: A Practical Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams.

Library Journal, July 1, 2005, Deborah Bigelow, review of Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better, p. 104.

Publishers Weekly, May 16, 2005, review of Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better, p. 50.