If you’re really serious about getting down to work and shovelling out the negative in your life (and let’s not kid ourselves, we all have it), Layne Smith-Brown’s book, Weird Hummingbirds (I love the name!) is the one to put on your reading list – or should I say ‘to do’ list. Layne opens up about a lot of pain in her life and her journey of healing and truth. I could identify with many of her stories – a few brought a tear to my eye. Some broke my heart, especially the chapter called The Bedroom. She smartly ends every chapter with a series of questions to get you ‘doing’ – questions to peel back and expose your own negative self-talk and then help you heal from the lies you’ve been living so your real truth can emerge and shine. It’s a down-to-earth, funny yet raw memoir but also a book filled with nuggets to help purge. Be prepared....the questions can take you deep. To get the full experience and heal, you need to do the work.

~ CJ Katz

This is a beautiful and honest book. I felt Layne was meeting me at the front door of her life with open arms, welcoming me into every room as we toured her house. Following insights gleaned from her own experiences that she so openly shares can only bring each of us to a higher place as we understand who we are, what made us that way and more excitingly, who we can become when we understand how our growing years have shaped us. In reading through the book, I felt Layne's willingness to lay herself out to the readers, so they could truly understand the action and consequence of thought and experience that dictate who we become.

I think this author has a cheerful, flowing style that makes her book an easy read, yet an incredibly informational journey at the same time. I will read it again and recommend it to friends.

~ Zee Dammerel