Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

134 reviews

allisonleslie's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

Picked up this book with no expectations but simply to read it with my work bookclub - and I’m so glad I did. This book had me angry, sad, laughing, and even crying. I loved getting to hear all of the stories including the story of the main character and her experience with therapy. Being able to follow growth between each character while learning more about human nature as the story progressed. 

I may have even recommended this book to my own therapist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Terminal illness, and Car accident

melissafelicia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was a beautiful story about a therapist whose patients were all going through something difficult, while she herself was also going through something difficult and seeing her own therapist about it. In the end, all the stories came together beautifully. The stories were sometimes heartbreaking, but it was inspiring to see the patients grow/recover/accept/learn to love again. Ultimately, this book was about human connection and growth, mixed with interesting insights and psychology facts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

elizaandstella's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Car accident, Medical content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Mental illness

tracy_j's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It took me awhile to read this book but that's because I was absorbing so much. I think therapy is so valuable and Lori did an amazing job covering so many aspects of it. I could see myself reading this book again which I don't say often. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child death, Mental illness, and Grief

melincincy23's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse

katara42's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death of parent

breanneporter's review

emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

I loved this book and basically sobbed my way through the entire last third. What a cool concept - Lori Gottlieb draws from her own personal and professional experiences as both a therapist and a patient to give readers an inside look into what a therapy process can look like from both sides of the couch. She discusses the personal situations that drove her to seek therapy and allows us to follow the journeys of several compelling patients from their first sessions with her through their moments of breakthrough/revelation. All of the characters felt supremely real and complicated and it felt to me like such a beautiful gift to read these stories and glimpse these lives and these emotions and motivations. This book is very emotional - I’m not kidding that I bawled my eyes out - but it’s also so thought provoking and reflective and insightful. 

Lori has a distinctive writing voice and a way of ending every chapter with a lesson or a cliffhanger that took some getting used to, for me, but overall I liked the short digestible chapters and how the story flowed and how she slowly revealed more to the reader, never rushing for us understand faster than we needed to. I struggled a bit to finish around the middle, which knocked it down a bit from a 5, but I wonder if I had read it via audio (instead of digital) if it would have been a 5. Either way, I don’t think everyone would enjoy this but I would recommend to anyone interested in the human condition, in therapy, in a unique kind of memoir, in a book that makes them reflect on themselves and their pasts and their attitudes toward living. Thank you Lori, for ditching that last contract so you could write this instead!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Cancer, and Child death

sndrspk's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child death, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

annamary54's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I absolutely LOVED this book. I cried, I laughed, I highlighted A LOT. This book has inspired me to look for another therapist after my many failed therapy attempts. I did not expect this book to effect (idk which a/effect to use here I hope I did it right) me as much as it did. Will definitely be purchasing this book and telling everyone to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Toxic relationship, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, and Alcoholism

Minor: Medical content and Drug abuse

roveronez's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a great book! Lori Gottlieb talks about her life, how she became a therapist, and her struggles as well as the life challenges of her patients in such way that we feel like we're reading a novel. So many insights, the kind of book that naturally teaches you so much about psychology and gives you tools to cope with your own struggles without sounding like a "self-help" book. I loved it! ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Alcoholism