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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
4.38 AVERAGE
10.9k reviews for:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
4.38 AVERAGE
This took me a year to read, I picked it up when I needed it and it always spoke to me. I will reread this for sure
I loved this book about working as a Therapist . I enjoyed her talking about her clients . I do have a background in social work so of course I loved it .I also read it for the No shelf control Book club
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
only took me 18 months but I finally finished it
(bezos is going to hell for an infinite amount of reasons but one of them is definitely the complete ownership audible has of certain audiobooks, this book included, that won’t even permit libraries to offer them)
(bezos is going to hell for an infinite amount of reasons but one of them is definitely the complete ownership audible has of certain audiobooks, this book included, that won’t even permit libraries to offer them)
This is my favorite book right now. It is beautifully woven. I experienced a similar feeling of pause, and hope for stepping into a buoyant future, right along with Lori as she left Wendell’s office into a new day and I saw I was nearing the end of the book.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Violence
Gottlieb infuses patience, humanity, humor, compassion, and great story-telling in this book. I was entirely engrossed in her patients’ stories and marveled at her ability to put into words the rollercoaster emotions that she was personally feeling while providing a stable ground for her patients. A couple other takeaways are to be compassionate to your own self and to not put your problems or pain on a hierarchy compared to others.
For my own memory:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“Just be.”
For my own memory:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“Just be.”
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book reminded me of a million little pieces. Is it a decent story? Yes. As long as it is a story. If it’s real, this is a self-indulgent, pointless piece of garbage. Why did she go through the exercise of saying explicitly that Wendell is not the real name of her therapist. Does she think her readers are stupid? This book appears to assume her readers are stupid, both therapists and clients. The stories were somewhat entertaining, but this was about 200 pages too long.