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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
One of the better memoirs I’ve read as of late. I felt it was slow to start but once I had an understanding of the layout of chapters (hopping back and forth from the author’s life events/experiences, I anticipated a chronological order of events at first), I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship
Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Death of parent
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
This book is a fantastic insight into the therapy process, the human behind your therapist and the lives of others. Would highly recommend.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Spoiler Alert:
I liked the book a lot in the first half. There we meet Lori, a therapist, who is facing a life crisis and decides to enter therapy herself. We get to watch her process her grief and navigate her challenges with her new therapist as they form their own complicated relationship. It's messy, just as the cast of her own patients that we meet are navigating their own challenges and relationships with her. All of that is thoroughly engaging. The end of the book wrapped up WAY too nicely after all that brilliant messiness, realistic road blocks, and self-sabotage. At the end, everyone seems nearly healed. Her patients heap praise on her. It's all just too pat and doesn't hold the same authenticity that was part of the charm of the book earlier. We can see the benefits of therapy along the way even during the various bumpy journeys. She didn't need to hit us over the head with a shiny, glossy, over-processed sales pitch at the end.
I liked the book a lot in the first half. There we meet Lori, a therapist, who is facing a life crisis and decides to enter therapy herself. We get to watch her process her grief and navigate her challenges with her new therapist as they form their own complicated relationship. It's messy, just as the cast of her own patients that we meet are navigating their own challenges and relationships with her. All of that is thoroughly engaging. The end of the book wrapped up WAY too nicely after all that brilliant messiness, realistic road blocks, and self-sabotage. At the end, everyone seems nearly healed. Her patients heap praise on her. It's all just too pat and doesn't hold the same authenticity that was part of the charm of the book earlier. We can see the benefits of therapy along the way even during the various bumpy journeys. She didn't need to hit us over the head with a shiny, glossy, over-processed sales pitch at the end.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
As a therapist myself, I was looking forward to this one. Nope. Written well but a few things really bothered me and made the writer unrelatable.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced