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meglybcoul's review
1.0
Listened to (a large part of) this audiobook after hearing a podcast interview with the author. TBH, I didn’t really feel like I got anything out of the book that I didn’t get out of the 20 minute interview.
readerfromtheblacklagoon's review
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment
csearsthompson's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
azureyoshi's review
2.0
I liked her first book (Self-Compassion) more. This one feels like an awkward mishmash of various concepts, including Buddhism, feminism, and uncomfortably personal stories about her autistic son. The ideas aren't bad, but I wish the execution was better.
time4tori2read's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This book came to me at the right time when I needed to work on being the "mama bear" for myself and be fiercely self-compassionate. I appreciated the reflection questions/exercises throughout the chapters to practice and study as a way to connect Neff's points to ourselves. I will be returning to those exercises to center my journaling.
bookbanshee's review
1.0
I really didn’t resonate with this one. Lots of junk science and really reductive stuff on something that is actually deeply complex. It’s a book that’s focussed almost entirely on convincing you that you need to be more self compassionate and the how is oversimplified into a few fairly hollow feeling exercises. This isn’t the route to greater self compassion for me.