Tools for the Trenches : Daily Practices for Resilience, Perspective & Progress

by Elizabeth Benton

What happens when a master of personal transformation suffers unspeakable loss?After thirty years of battling obesity and struggling with her finances, Elizabeth Benton transformed herself. She lost 150 pounds, eliminated $130,000 of debt, and committed herself to guiding other women through their own transformations. Her inspiring story and methodologies have touched millions of lives.Then, in 2020, her daughter died. Lost and grieving, Elizabeth searched in vain for anything that might help. But the advice she found felt too out of reach. Too hard to put into practice. Instead of giving up, she wrote the book she couldn’t find.No matter what you’re trying to handle—from the most difficult loss to the small, day-to-day grievances that keep us from living our best lives—Tools for the Trenches provides the tools and perspectives you need to transform yourself from the inside out.Full of exercises you can do immediately, with questions at the end of each chapter to help you apply every tool in your own life, Elizabeth Benton’s Tools for the Trenches is the self-help book that can actually change your life—starting now.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Mental Health, Audiobook

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2021

Reviews

[Hisgirl85 · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. This has some helpful and actionable steps that I was putting into practice while reading/ listening. I will probably relisten.

[Polina D · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, love the strategies, easy to read and full of wisdom. Highly recommend it!

[Cara Achterberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was such a surprise - so much wisdom. I think I may have learned more from it than anything else I've read this year, especially in terms of being a better thinker. This is one I will definitely read again. I highlighted a ton of stuff and copied quite a lot of that into my journal and hopefully onto my heart.

[Nichole Betterley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is excellent and definitely one to keep coming back to.

[Anna Stedman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tools

I Lked some of the tools, but TM is not a tool for me. The Bible is my toolbox and Jesus is the only way to heaven.

[Nelly Eisenhower · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elizabeth’s courage and vulnerability in showing how she has navigated grief while taking care of herself and striving for a future that honors her daughter’s legacy is beautiful. This book isn’t just for navigating major losses, but also the times where you need to think outside of your circumstances to stay true to your life goals. Each chapter is a stand-alone tool that offers the reader a new way to approach and think about perceived obstacles. Exercises at the end of each chapter help you to apply the tools to your own life and problems. This book is a tool that I will use repeatedly when I need a mindset shift.

[Larissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF, Not for me. I had heard this book wasn't focused solely on death, but about halfway through, and so far, every chapter starts with or discusses it, many times in the context of religion. I've never lost a child and I don't share the author's religion, so I've not found this book one I could connect to, unlike with Chasing Cupcakes.

The formatting is terrible, so hopefully, this will be corrected with Elizabeth's third book. It'd be more readable (just visually, not content-wise) if it was formatted more like a standard published book.