To the contrary. It's what Huber is trying to say appears simple, yet it's not so simple at all--and even harder to achieve. It's that Buddhist paradox all the way. It's really hard for us who have been "beating ourselves up" all these years for one thing or another, to really understand how to stop the messages that we learned as children and perpetuated as adults. So, perhaps her repetitive tone is good. Those early messages we learned sure were reinforced over and over by our "ego." And, one of Huber's "solutions" --"sitting" (meditation) is indeed very repetitious, and sometimes boring. Most people probably give up on it when the issues to work on start surfacing.
I think the book is very readable, despite other reviewers' comments about not liking the "handwritten-like" text type. For me, I liked picking up a book that was different in appearance and content than the others I read. I didn't find the pictures distracting either. They seemed to be added to emphasize points and weren't really used to add meaning on their own.
If you are in severe emotional distress, this might not be the book for you. But, if you are generally coping well and want to perhaps try meditating and self-discovery to get rid of those "negative child messages" that you have become accustomed to hearing and acting on, it might be the best springboard. I was left reading the book wanting to try meditating.
Now, if only I could pawn off my kids and husband for 2 weeks, go to her California mountain retreat and take the workshop.... Ah, I wonder what demographic DOES make it there!?
In this loosely-organized book ("kind of like life"), Huber says, "something is wrong with you is not the voice of your Heart, God, True Nature" (p. 110). Rather it is the voice of social conditioning that teaches us as children to stop looking to ourselves in order to know what is so for us, and to begin looking to others--parents, teachers, friends, lovers, spouses, "Jesus or the Buddha or God--all'out there'," in order to know what is right (pp. ii-iii). Social conditioning teaches us "to assume there is something wrong with us, to look for the flaws, to judge them when we find them, to hate ourselves for having them, to punish ourselves until we eradicate them" (p. 102). It does not teach us "to love ourselves for our goodness, to appreciate ourselves for who we are, to trust ourselves, to have confidence in our abilities, to look to our heart for guidance" (p. 102). Huber encourages us to be suspicious of any voice "inside or outside that says, 'there is something wrong with you'" (p. 50).
Huber acknowledges it takes courage to look deeply beyond our self-criticism. "To sit still in compassionate acceptance is all that is required," she says (p. 85). Written with wisdom and clarity, Huber's book is an excellent guide for that inner journey.
G. Merritt