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Roy Spence

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The 10 Essential Hugs of Life (2013) 9 exemplars

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I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I requested this book via NetGalley because I love hugs and hugging! I was pleasantly surprised by Spence's personable writing. I'd rate this book three and a half stars.

Roy Spence is not the kind of guy you'd assume would write an inspirational self-help book about hugging. CEO of a major advertising company, his biography and picture give the impression that he'd more likely be the author of business books or tell-all memoirs (and he has written a business book - about finding your purpose). But there's more to Spence than his accomplishments.

The 10 Essential Hugs of Life is a beautifully written, lighthearted manifesto about making your way through life with kindness and compassion for yourself and everyone around you. Spence shares his experience of growing up in Texas, the son of a man who hugged everyone and knew everyone in their small town. He shares how this influenced his own beliefs and how the love and loss of his father deeply impacted his life.

Spence defines hugs loosely, including not just physical hugs but mental and emotional hugs as well. He goes on to talk about ten ways in which we need to incorporate hugs into our life - by hugging ourselves, our faith, our flag (not in terms of patriotism - in this chapter he mainly discusses being grateful and loving towards the community we come from), our friends, our family, our fears, our failures, our firsts, our futures, and our finals (the end of important things in our life).

Each chapter is full of wisdom and understanding about what it means to truly embrace ourselves - wholly, all of us, including our deepest fears, those family members we just can't stand, friends we may have grown apart from, and the places we come from that we might want to escape. Spence writes passionately and convincingly that embracing all of ourselves is necessary to living a full, fulfilled life.
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