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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
If I didn’t have such a strict rating scale this would be up there but a 3 is pretty good for my rating. Smart, funny, superb interweaving of personal life and (consented) patient stories. Super read, highly recommend, especially if you’re in therapy or considering it — at the end, we’re all human trying our best.
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Slow at times but really enjoyable! Fascinating seeing the therapist’s perspective on sessions and their relationships with patients.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This was a wonderfully written book. It is a non-fiction book, but reads like a novel. The concept of a therapist and her journey with her own therapy helps take away the stigma of therapy. I got quite a few nuggets that I will keep with me, like the importance of the difference between privacy and secrecy (which sounds simple, but is not) and this quote:
"We talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but our words aren't always kind or true or helpful - or even respectful. Most of what we say to ourselves we'd never say to people we love or care about, like our friends or children. In therapy we learn to pay close attention to those voices in our heads so that we can learn a better way to communicate with ourselves."
"We talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but our words aren't always kind or true or helpful - or even respectful. Most of what we say to ourselves we'd never say to people we love or care about, like our friends or children. In therapy we learn to pay close attention to those voices in our heads so that we can learn a better way to communicate with ourselves."
emotional
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inspiring
slow-paced
emotional
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reflective
medium-paced
This book was not quite what I was expecting. I thought it would be a little more self-help, but really it is a story about a therapist who ends up in therapy herself after a break up. It also tells the story of a few of her patients. But it's all done as a sort of humorous, heartwarming memoir. I really enjoyed it.
An enjoyable read, but on reflection, I had the following issue:
The stories are (by necessity) anonymised, but I feel this removes some of the wonder from the journeys they take you on — the author leans a bit too heavily into the fantasy of therapy, as a miracle cure-all.
The stories are (by necessity) anonymised, but I feel this removes some of the wonder from the journeys they take you on — the author leans a bit too heavily into the fantasy of therapy, as a miracle cure-all.