No Regrets: A Ten-Step Program for Living in the Present and Leaving the Past Behind

This book provides some insights that I found immediately helpful! At times, it states some obvious realities, which can often be forgotten in the throes of everyday challenges. It was helpful to read, reevaluate and restore hope for more empowered mental and spiritual experience of the past and the present.

This book changed my life. It helped me to work through issues that I haven't been to work through even after a year with a therapist. I can't imagine anyone who couldn't benefit from the widely applicable wisdom in this book.

So far, the book seems very helpful. I haven't read too far into the book --- it's a lot of work which I guess will bring good results - we can only wait to see.

The book presents a methodical, non-complicated way to stop the agony that comes with being consumed with regrets. I have the hard copy and the digital copy, which means the book really, really impressed me.

Best book on Regrets. Identifies every possibility, every choice, every slight way youcan get into regrets.........and tells the many ways to handle the regrets and how youwill know how and what to do in each regret that comes your way.

The author pleads a mea culpa for his religiousity and claims that "[a]theists and agnostics, devoted followers of a religious tradition, and those whose sense of the spiritual embraces no specific form of worship will all find that the Ten Steps will work for them." Unfortunately, Beazley constantly refers to prayer or its synonyms, making it difficult for the non-religious. There are repeated references to "your higher power". That's a direct lift, I believe, from the AA program whose originators tried to minimize its religious aspect, but the fact remains that it is a call to prayer which secularists will find grating and perhaps even offensive. Beazly is open about his emulation of the famous AA 12-step program. But there is a problem with some of his techniques, which seem rooted more pop psychology and its "feel good" mantras. For example, Beazley recommends writing "healing letters" to dead people you feel you've wronged. "The healing letter is like a creative visualization but on paper. It has the power to seem real and so to heal." Uh, the person you believe (and perhaps did) offend is dead. You are doing this to make yourself feel good. This "feel good" approach pervades the book. In fact, the message boils down to forget about it - what's past is past. Good advice, but someone like Albert Ellis is much better, in my opinion, at delivering this message.Jerry

One of the beat books I have ever read on moving forward in your life when stuck and holding on to the past.

Not what I had in mind, so I gave it away. Not a great book for recovery from addictions.

A truly EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT book!! This has helped me to find a growing sense of relief and peace, something that I had struggled to do for many years. The author is succinct and supportive, outlining an approach to gaining peace that truly works. It often seems as though he is speaking directly to you, as if he really understands something of the pain and anguish that regrets can create within our minds and our lives. Highly recommended. Wishing all those who read it much peace and happiness too.

This book is really the only book on the market for this subject. It is really well written and has been extremely useful to me. If you are not religious or spiritual it may be hard to accept the writers reasons and how you deal with your regrets in your life but please don't let this put you off as its still a great book.

I am slowly working my way through this book and can honestly say that it is helping me more than any counsellor I have seen in the past 20 years!! This is what I have been looking for and I feel so much better using the techniques and tools recommended in this book. Thank you.

This is a great book for anyone who questions their past decisions, even when situations were beyond their control. It's about re-examining the ideas that can keep people tied to the past and what they can't change. This book explains how regret is an inevitable by-product of choice, but that it can be let go of. I think it's a book for virtually everyone. Profound and enlightening.

Very practical approach to breaking patterns of thinking focused on the past and on overwhelming regrets which are overshadowing your present.A step by step approach very useful.