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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I think this is a book that you either love or hate. I read a lot of negative reviews just before I started reading. So I went in with very low expectations and I guess that’s why I ended up not hating it.
It is essentially a memoir about the authors experience and therapy sessions. You can see the therapist is holding back slightly with her responses (which she also acknowledges herself in the book). But I think as someone who’s always wondering whether I should go see a therapist, I found it quite insightful. Glad that I’m not the only one with these thoughts and feelings and moods.
Although I enjoyed it, I’m not sure if I would read the next book. I’m not huge into self help books, which this wasn’t. But I just find it hard to concentrate on a book when I keep thinking about my own life experiences and reflecting on my own relationships/word etc 🤣
It is essentially a memoir about the authors experience and therapy sessions. You can see the therapist is holding back slightly with her responses (which she also acknowledges herself in the book). But I think as someone who’s always wondering whether I should go see a therapist, I found it quite insightful. Glad that I’m not the only one with these thoughts and feelings and moods.
Although I enjoyed it, I’m not sure if I would read the next book. I’m not huge into self help books, which this wasn’t. But I just find it hard to concentrate on a book when I keep thinking about my own life experiences and reflecting on my own relationships/word etc 🤣
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
As a school counselor, I wish I could recommend this to my high school students or to anyone with little to no experience in the mental health realm who has the question “*Why* try therapy?” Personally, I found Baek’s reflections outside of therapeutic transcriptions to be the most insightful piece.
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I think the therapist was great- I found myself tagging a lot of lines that I related to and felt insightful. However I felt confused by the format of the book itself. The “end note” by the therapist with the epilogue made me think it was over but then the micro-essays… I largely skimmed them, as I didn’t know what to do with the information now that the therapy was “over”.
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
woof. i don’t know if it was a bad translation (if it was, the author is owed a serious apology) or, if it was just a diary not meant for publication, but this would have been a DNF if it was not so short. tedious, poorly written, and an utter waste of time. props to the author for being vulnerable, but maybe she should have waited until she actually came to valuable conclusions about her life.
This is exactly what therapy is like. Working out what you think, why you think it and admitting some stuff were a little bit ashamed of