Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

71 reviews

hadsbaker's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Cancer, Mental illness, Child death, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

vanesst's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Grief, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

natrix's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

1.0

I don't understand why this book has this rating. It's boring, superficial, the therapist is a self absorbed drama queen. Having to wait a few months for a sperm donor is not the same as having two miscarriages... Also, she seems like a bad therapist. Avoiding confrontation and making everything about her... Ugh

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Cancer

theimposter's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Cancer, and Grief

amgarrido's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Death, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Grief

kayfab's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Infertility, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Body shaming, Bullying, Dysphoria, Medical content, Mental illness, Addiction, Classism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

nikmahie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Loved everything about it. It’s such an honest informative book. I was very invested in the different client stories. And it’s so easy and well written. Loved it. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Pregnancy

epellicci's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Incredibly listenable, what makes Maybe You Should Talk to Someone different is that it is presented mostly through Lori’s relationship with her own therapist – Wendall. In this way it stands out from the traditional use of patient case studies to explore the profession. I loved the insight provided by Lori’s conversations with friends, her patients and Wendall, and the nuance this brought to the book. She does a fantastic job of balancing herself as a practitioner and as a human being, at times deeply affected by the lives of those she sees. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is warm and funny as well as full of grief and quiet moments of comfort. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Child death and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

michelle_l_d's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Infertility, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Death, Alcoholism, and Miscarriage

katewhite77's review

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

5.0

One of the most moving books I've ever read

About life death, love and the therapists in between. 

I would recommend this book to anyone curious about or suspicious about the thereputic process as this very funny and extremely moving memoir gives a fascinating insight from both sides of the couch. 

As humans we are all frail but we can be so resistant too. This book shows us how.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Grief, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Child death