Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Talvez você deva conversar com alguém: Uma terapeuta, o terapeuta dela e a vida de todos nós by Lori Gottlieb, Elisa Nazarian

74 reviews

yayarose's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.75

I absolutely loved the raw honesty of this book as well as the story itself. I felt very connected to the author and all the rest of the characters as the book progressed. I did however find it kind of long and just wanted it to all wrap up in the last few chapters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Child death, Cancer, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

a_novi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I recommend this book to almost everyone but especially if you have an interest in mental health or if you have ever been through trauma that made you consider therapy. I recommend this to people who work in therapy social work or healthcare. It starts off slow and you may say “why do I care about this” but when the author starts drawing parallels between her experiences with that of her patients and experiences with her therapist it’s very interesting and enlightening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Addiction, Car accident, Infertility, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Child death, and Cursing

melissafelicia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was a beautiful story about a therapist whose patients were all going through something difficult, while she herself was also going through something difficult and seeing her own therapist about it. In the end, all the stories came together beautifully. The stories were sometimes heartbreaking, but it was inspiring to see the patients grow/recover/accept/learn to love again. Ultimately, this book was about human connection and growth, mixed with interesting insights and psychology facts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

elizaandstella's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Car accident, Medical content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Mental illness

tracy_j's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It took me awhile to read this book but that's because I was absorbing so much. I think therapy is so valuable and Lori did an amazing job covering so many aspects of it. I could see myself reading this book again which I don't say often. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child death, Mental illness, and Grief

breanneporter's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

I loved this book and basically sobbed my way through the entire last third. What a cool concept - Lori Gottlieb draws from her own personal and professional experiences as both a therapist and a patient to give readers an inside look into what a therapy process can look like from both sides of the couch. She discusses the personal situations that drove her to seek therapy and allows us to follow the journeys of several compelling patients from their first sessions with her through their moments of breakthrough/revelation. All of the characters felt supremely real and complicated and it felt to me like such a beautiful gift to read these stories and glimpse these lives and these emotions and motivations. This book is very emotional - I’m not kidding that I bawled my eyes out - but it’s also so thought provoking and reflective and insightful. 

Lori has a distinctive writing voice and a way of ending every chapter with a lesson or a cliffhanger that took some getting used to, for me, but overall I liked the short digestible chapters and how the story flowed and how she slowly revealed more to the reader, never rushing for us understand faster than we needed to. I struggled a bit to finish around the middle, which knocked it down a bit from a 5, but I wonder if I had read it via audio (instead of digital) if it would have been a 5. Either way, I don’t think everyone would enjoy this but I would recommend to anyone interested in the human condition, in therapy, in a unique kind of memoir, in a book that makes them reflect on themselves and their pasts and their attitudes toward living. Thank you Lori, for ditching that last contract so you could write this instead!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Cancer, and Child death

roveronez's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a great book! Lori Gottlieb talks about her life, how she became a therapist, and her struggles as well as the life challenges of her patients in such way that we feel like we're reading a novel. So many insights, the kind of book that naturally teaches you so much about psychology and gives you tools to cope with your own struggles without sounding like a "self-help" book. I loved it! ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Alcoholism

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed this book, and of course, I’m obsessed with trying to figure out who John is and what’s the name of his show!

I liked her thoughtfulness and deliberateness with her patients. I liked knowing she is also someone who needs a therapist as well. It’s given me a new lens to look at me in therapist through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Cancer, Car accident, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Self harm, Stalking, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Abandonment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

michfiske5's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Grief, and Alcoholism

mariamarsbar's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Child death, and Death

Minor: Car accident, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse