SIGH.
There was a time when Denise Linn was really good but that time is no more.
Or maybe I'm wrong. A lot of her books, looking back on it, seem pretty cultural appropriation-y, and sadly, that includes the ones I love. I did love Soul Coaching back in the day and her book on Feng Shui was one of the first that was really Western-friendly, but even then she started to have a bunch of books that seemed to capitalize on Indigenous cultures and, well, I'm pretty sure not treat them with great respect.
I don't mean she's being rude or desecrating anything; I mean she's being very cavalier with it. She tells a story about Aboriginal women giving her a woman's shield (I mean, she's gotta flex how she's so much more spiritual than us plebs, but whatever), but then says, so yeah, you can mentally make a shield with your *~energy~*. Is...is that right? Is that actually capturing the essence of the 'woman's shield' in any way? Is that the best way you can recreate it?
Anyway for once I will not go off on a rant-tangent. This book takes the basic idea that we are all connected and interconnected, and that some of these connections are good and healthful...and some are not. And she has you wade through several chapters of padding anecdotes, of course, before you get to any 'useful' information.
Which information is all, by the way, a let down. Basically, you can use anything. Sure, why not. I mean the other end of the spectrum is fundamentalist ceremonial magicians who insist on the feathers of a black hen killed at midnight, but I think maybe there's such a thing as TOO loosey-goosey? She's definitely too loosey goosey.
One might expect, for example, if she's going to suggest a crystal for this purpose, she might...select a crystal instead of just giving a list and saying, hey you can carry it in your pocket, and maybe you want to run it under water, no wait, put it in sunshine, no wait, you can rub it with eucalyptus oil...like what?
And that's fine, I guess.
But then she just seems to go into an advertisement for her other books--a whole chapter on space clearing--she's written at least one book on space clearing.
The genericness really bothers me, because it's yet another example of the whole soft plagiarism in the New Age community. Oh you can use a violet flame (no mention of the origin of the violet flame, much less how it may or may not be problematic). Oh you can use essential oils. Just...do it?
Many years ago I read Dion Fortune's book on psychic self-defense and that still stands to me as the gold standard of this type of work--if you want to do true psychic protection, cutting the bad cords drawing your energy, sometimes it's better to go Old School than New Age.