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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest
3 reviews
havenoshelfcontrol's review against another edition
1.0
It’s time to pull up your bootstraps, ladies! Let’s go girls!
⭐️
⭐️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, and Mental illness
rebekkamafia's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Overall: inspiring, reflective and thought provoking. I didn’t resonate with this as much as I did with 101 Essays and at times I had to force myself to continue reading.
Wiests’ style of writing is blunt and declarative, at times naive — parts that didn’t resonate definitely created friction in the reading process.
Unfortunately, like many other self help -books, this book used fat phobic and diet culture-y narratives as one of the examples of ”self-sabotage”.
However, I highlighted and tabbed a lot of inspiring and important parts; on the whole a ”worth it” read.
Wiests’ style of writing is blunt and declarative, at times naive — parts that didn’t resonate definitely created friction in the reading process.
Unfortunately, like many other self help -books, this book used fat phobic and diet culture-y narratives as one of the examples of ”self-sabotage”.
However, I highlighted and tabbed a lot of inspiring and important parts; on the whole a ”worth it” read.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia
stevia333k's review against another edition
In the prologue, they literally said to kill our younger selves who can no longer carry us in order to become more agile with our skills. This has too much in common with conversion torture rhetoric I outlived.
Also as one of the specified problems this book says it's for is "weight" which comes off as fatphobic to me, and focusing more on the symptom than the problem of eating disorders. Considering that sort of shit, I think this is a bad book even if they're also going for addicts as an audience. Seriously this book regurgitates the sorts of rock bottom rhetoric that let's so many people die (black coats). This book seeks to be more along the white coats but works with rhetoric that supports the blue coats. So it's bullshit.
It used a pro-indigenous knowledge fun fact about forest fires and seeds, but then doesn't explain why the borders are fertile nor nothing. Seems more like a willpower can stop a rainstorm bullshit with the occasional window dressing to disarm people.
Also as one of the specified problems this book says it's for is "weight" which comes off as fatphobic to me, and focusing more on the symptom than the problem of eating disorders. Considering that sort of shit, I think this is a bad book even if they're also going for addicts as an audience. Seriously this book regurgitates the sorts of rock bottom rhetoric that let's so many people die (black coats). This book seeks to be more along the white coats but works with rhetoric that supports the blue coats. So it's bullshit.
It used a pro-indigenous knowledge fun fact about forest fires and seeds, but then doesn't explain why the borders are fertile nor nothing. Seems more like a willpower can stop a rainstorm bullshit with the occasional window dressing to disarm people.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
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