We’re on the program to talk about Annie’s new book, Somehow: Notes on Love. This is turning the tables after Annie interviewed me last year for the same lovely group. The ticket price includes a full day of talks by authors.

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THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN 2025. REFUNDS HAVE BEEN INITIATED. Join me at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco to experience the method I describe in Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic. If past events are good predictors, this will be a surprising, fun experience for a typical attendee, and I'm sorry to say that yes, you're probably a typical attendee.

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Join us for a discussion and demonstration with Yorktown/ Woodlawn alumnus Neal Allen of the stunning tools to quiet anxiety found in his new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic. 

The presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Copies of the book will be available for sale, courtesy of Hooray for Books.

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Neal will talk about his new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, and demonstrate its techniques in this hands-on workshop. The San Diego Writers Festival is an all-day affair with panels, workshops, book signings, and author appearances held on Coronado Island. Click here for more information.

Banyen Books of Vancouver presents a free webinar with Anne Lamott and Neal Allen discussing his new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, including demonstrations of some of its techniques.

Three authors from different traditions discuss how modern psychology can be the surprising entryway to ancient wisdom. Buddhist Mark Epstein, a Harvard-trained psychotherapist and best-selling author, Anne Lamott, a Jesus-y best-selling writer of books on faith, and Neal Allen, author of the new release Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, talk about the modern tools for reducing the mind's clutter and opening to freedom. Join us for free at 5 p.m. Pacific, Tuesday, January 9.

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Join Neal and Annie for a lively conversation on taming the inner critic

Free event; space is limited

Neal and Annie will talk about taming the inner critic, their writing life together, and take questions

Presented by Village Books

This is a ticketed event; attendees receive a copy of Neal’s new book, Better Days

Join Neal and Annie for a special live event at Banyen!

They will share wisdom for quieting the inner critic, discuss their life together as writers, take audience questions, and sign books

Free event, limited space

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Join us for a discussion of Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, available at your favorite bookstore. Click here for this free event

Join me for a hands-on workshop that provides tools to quiet that snarky voice in your head that asks questions like:

— Am I good enough to perform?

— Is this a pipedream?

— What’s with Taylor Swift?

— Why am I so lazy?

— Am I a no-talent fake?

This session will be tailored for musicians and your extra burden of being on stage, submitting yourself to the ruthless judgment of an audience, and to the whispers of your family (and some friends) who wish you would lead a more normal life like they do.

Hands-on, experiential, come prepared to meet your own personal gremlin and start rassling it down.

In conversation with Marni Freedman at the Coronado Performing Arts Center

Sponsored by Warwick’s Books, Friends of the Coronado Library, and the San Diego Writer’s Festival

Audience Q&A and book signing

Tickets $10-$38.95

An interactive conversation with Neal and Annie about taming the inner critic

Audience Q&A and book signing

Free admission

Join me for a hands-on workshop exploring ways to tame your inner critic. Sponsored by A Writing Room Collective, the 90-minute session gives you the opportunity to meet your gremlin full-on, interrogate it to its purposes, and challenge its authority over your life.

— Am I good enough?

— Who am I fooling?

— Isn’t memoir and fiction writing childish?

— No one believes in me, and why should they?

— I’m the laziest writer who ever lived

The messages are the same for all of us. Let’s do some work to move them to the side so we can get some writing done.

Register by clicking below. $49 price includes a copy of my new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic

https://awritingroom.com/better-days-tame-your-inner-critic-with-neal-allen