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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
reflective
medium-paced
slow-paced
This book didn’t give me what I wanted from it if I’m entirely honest. I do remember feeling that the therapist had some bias opinions and just overall didn’t feel a connection between the two characters.
3.5⭐ I liked that the book gave me a lot of insight into myself
This book, therefore, ends not with answers but with a wish. I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don't hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time.
Some day, I will.
reflective
slow-paced
This book is short but to the point. I find the author's honesty mesmerizing and I empathized with several of her inner thoughts and reflections. I'm not usually a fan of translated books but this one does translate beautifully and I commend both the author and translator for their work. Speaking up about our own mental health struggles and the inner workings of our mind (which more often than not do not paint us in the best of light) is a very hard thing to do, and this book does so beautifully. Reading this feels like going to therapy, in a good way.
emotional
informative
reflective
reflective
slow-paced
"Sadness is the path of least resistance, the most familiar and close-at-hand emotion I have."
this book is good!! as someone who has been experiencing therapy (and many forms of it) for a pretty long time now, not a lot in this book was groundbreaking or mind-blowing. still, a couple moments got me feeling like I was truly realizing something about myself, and especially about relationships with others and how they are so defined by our perception of ourselves.
I think this is a very well-done book about mental health, not pompous, very honest and genuine. it doesn't pretend to be self-help and it's not supposed to give a universal answer to all suffering. what it does though, is make you feel understood.
it's easy to find relatable points in this book, in the author's struggles. it is extremely comforting and encouraging — showing, however, that making progress isn't a linear thing. writing this book and sharing those transcripts is a very brave thing in my eyes, and I can only thank the author for it.
in the end, it is hopeful, and you can only sigh with comfort from how seen you have been, and how good it has felt.
this book is good!! as someone who has been experiencing therapy (and many forms of it) for a pretty long time now, not a lot in this book was groundbreaking or mind-blowing. still, a couple moments got me feeling like I was truly realizing something about myself, and especially about relationships with others and how they are so defined by our perception of ourselves.
I think this is a very well-done book about mental health, not pompous, very honest and genuine. it doesn't pretend to be self-help and it's not supposed to give a universal answer to all suffering. what it does though, is make you feel understood.
it's easy to find relatable points in this book, in the author's struggles. it is extremely comforting and encouraging — showing, however, that making progress isn't a linear thing. writing this book and sharing those transcripts is a very brave thing in my eyes, and I can only thank the author for it.
in the end, it is hopeful, and you can only sigh with comfort from how seen you have been, and how good it has felt.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced