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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
Probably need to be more emotionally stable to read this
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Really good down to earth book with lots of helpful insight and advice
reflective
slow-paced
inspiring
reflective
I agree entirely with this other review from Truman Rose: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/46004e6f-7868-4333-a40d-78f38762324f could not find a cohesive story and instead felt confused (even anxious at times) trying to find the pt or trying to find if I should believe the author, who frequently acknowledged she does not have medical insight and would share things followed by “I don’t know why I’m writing about this.” Okay…. Then neither do we; that’s kind of the writer’s job to guide readers through what they are actually trying to say.
I quite like Sarah Wilson's non-IQuitSugar writing. It's curious and feels honest. So I was really looking forward to this one - and it was on a topic very close to my heart. While I think it's awesome that this has been written, and it has some useful information in it, and is getting into the hands and minds of so many who will relate and benefit ... it was just too all-over-the-shop to work as a coherent book - or story - for me.
Poignant, searingly honest, and extremely funny at times, 'First, We Make The Best Beautiful' made one more person feel less alone in their journey. We highly-sensitive, sometimes highly-strung folk called "the anxious" are not alone in our experience, and Wilson's meandering memoir really accurately and authentically lays out how a high-functioning, high-achieving person can be in the grips of a crippling sense of anxiety - and what that looks like. Via a splattering of heartfelt stories about her nomadic journey, along with pertinent quotes weaved in, Sarah's story has made me really question my sense of shame around my own anxiety and readdress the need to run away or "fix" it. FWMTBB has empowered to live my best anxious life - understand it, own it, embrace it.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
I can't take this book seriously. It's trying hard to make the book funny, or easy to read, but that just makes it less credible for me.
Even the first few disclaimers already threw me off, "I'm not a medical professional". Okay, cool, then I'll read about how you cope then. But then it goes from real science, and Mary Oliver's poem, and personal opinions, and it's just all over the place. I guess if I want to read about anxiety, I'd want to read from the POV of the person themselves (for empathy), or actual research instead (for knowledge), and not this mixed bag.
Even the first few disclaimers already threw me off, "I'm not a medical professional". Okay, cool, then I'll read about how you cope then. But then it goes from real science, and Mary Oliver's poem, and personal opinions, and it's just all over the place. I guess if I want to read about anxiety, I'd want to read from the POV of the person themselves (for empathy), or actual research instead (for knowledge), and not this mixed bag.