Survive The Unthinkable A Total Guide To Women’s Self-Protection

Survive The Unthinkable by Tim LarkinSurvive The Unthinkable: A Total Guide To Women’s Self-Protection by Tim Larkin with a Foreword by Tony Robbins is a good book for all women, and men too, to read to better understand violence and self-defense. While I don’t think it is a “total guide” to self-protection, I do believe it is an important part of the equation and a very good read that shares some extremely important information on the topic.

This is not a self-defense technique book, it is a principle and concept oriented book that discusses the realities of violence and self-defense as Larkin teaches through his Target Focus Training. Larkin doesn’t believe in mutual fights, fighting over ego or possessions, escalating arguments to physically hitting each other and so on. These are avoidable, and because they are avoidable, he advises you do just that. Avoid them, don’t engage. Leave. I agree with him on this point entirely. Avoidance is always the best course of action when it comes to violence.

Unfortunately, avoidance is not always possible. There are situations where a physical response will be necessary to save one’s life. This is the focus of Larkin’s teachings, and the focus of this book. He wants people, especially women in this book, to understand that violence happens. There are people out there that prey on others. Chapter two explains how predators think, to allow the reader to better understand what they may be up against.

Chapter three shares a person’s most powerful weapon, a person’s brain and intuition. I agree, as I wrote about the same thing in my first book. The next chapter covers an extremely important element of self-defense and survival, and that is the will to survive. Without this, all the techniques in the world will most likely do a person no good. Larkin shares the necessary mindset.

The next few chapters focus on violence and the means to stop violence against you through stopping you attacker with physical force that injures and incapacitates him so he can no longer hurt you. It’s brutal, but in some situations the only thing that might get you home alive. There are three pages of this entire book devoted to explaining two simple techniques that Larkin recommends. He then ends with some final thoughts on fear, prevention, and controlling your own life.

I found the book to be motivational and empowering, as well as full of some important information on violence that many are unaware of. But again, I think it is only a piece of the whole. I would strongly recommend this book as a supplement to other learning and training for both men and women. In that capacity, yes, this book is a good addition to everyone’s self-defense resource library.

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