anabfleal's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
4.0
laveena's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
excellent narration! loved the message of growth, perseverance, embracing where you are at 2day, living in the moment.
katekate_reads_'s review against another edition
5.0
This will be one of my favorite books of 2019 - I absolutely loved it. I wasn’t sure what to expect and couldn’t remember where I had first heard about it - so went into it a blank slate.
Within the first couple chapters, I was texting a friend that I loved it and thought she might too. Lori Gottlieb is a therapist and in this book she takes us into the journey of some of her patients as well as her experiences with her own therapist.
It’s well written, funny and occasionally heartbreaking. Much like the experience of therapy - sometimes it pushed me to think about things that weren’t easy and sometimes I got very emotional. For me - this wasn’t a book to rush - I took my time with it.
I highlighted so many parts and wanted to text them to everyone. If you’ve talked to me during the time I was reading this, I probably managed to work it into our conversation.
It’s really hard for me to put into words what I loved about this book but I encourage you to try it and I will leave you with a quote from the book where Gottlieb describes how it went when she started writing this book:
“All week, I wrote about my breakup, my therapist, my mortality, our fear of taking responsibility for our lives and the need to do so in order to heal. I wrote about outdated stories and false narratives and how the past and future can creep into the present, sometimes eclipsing it entirely. I wrote about taking risks and letting go and how hard it is to walk around those prison bars even when freedom isn’t just right in front of us but literally inside of us, in our minds.”
Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for my early copy in exchange for my honest review. I will be buying a copy for my shelf as well. I wholeheartedly recommend this book!!
Within the first couple chapters, I was texting a friend that I loved it and thought she might too. Lori Gottlieb is a therapist and in this book she takes us into the journey of some of her patients as well as her experiences with her own therapist.
It’s well written, funny and occasionally heartbreaking. Much like the experience of therapy - sometimes it pushed me to think about things that weren’t easy and sometimes I got very emotional. For me - this wasn’t a book to rush - I took my time with it.
I highlighted so many parts and wanted to text them to everyone. If you’ve talked to me during the time I was reading this, I probably managed to work it into our conversation.
It’s really hard for me to put into words what I loved about this book but I encourage you to try it and I will leave you with a quote from the book where Gottlieb describes how it went when she started writing this book:
“All week, I wrote about my breakup, my therapist, my mortality, our fear of taking responsibility for our lives and the need to do so in order to heal. I wrote about outdated stories and false narratives and how the past and future can creep into the present, sometimes eclipsing it entirely. I wrote about taking risks and letting go and how hard it is to walk around those prison bars even when freedom isn’t just right in front of us but literally inside of us, in our minds.”
Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for my early copy in exchange for my honest review. I will be buying a copy for my shelf as well. I wholeheartedly recommend this book!!
dpiegaro's review against another edition
5.0
This made me cry it was so good.
I recommended this book to everyone I encountered while I was reading it. Really poignant and meaningful. This will really help you learn things about yourself and others.
I recommended this book to everyone I encountered while I was reading it. Really poignant and meaningful. This will really help you learn things about yourself and others.
saviorcomplexdiehard's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
yelandi's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
bookchew's review against another edition
5.0
There are precious few books that make me both laugh and sob. This is one of them. And I mean I truly LAUGHED, but I also cried this ugly, blubbering cry in the style of a three year old: all frowning and chin rippling with a bottom-lip pout and tear streaked cheeks. This book is so affecting and warm and fun and worth it.
I was bowled over by Gottlieb’s writing, which is thoughtful and flowing. Above all, her voice is authentic. There’s no affectation or smugness here, but rather the type of stark honesty that is both hilarious and profoundly moving. I can’t believe she invited us into these spaces—not just her private conversations in her therapist practice with her clients, but the intimate confessions about herself, too.
I loved this book. It is brave and generous, and I savored my time with each person it profiles, including Gottlieb herself.
I count it among the best I’ve read this year, or any year.
I was bowled over by Gottlieb’s writing, which is thoughtful and flowing. Above all, her voice is authentic. There’s no affectation or smugness here, but rather the type of stark honesty that is both hilarious and profoundly moving. I can’t believe she invited us into these spaces—not just her private conversations in her therapist practice with her clients, but the intimate confessions about herself, too.
I loved this book. It is brave and generous, and I savored my time with each person it profiles, including Gottlieb herself.
I count it among the best I’ve read this year, or any year.