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thebriness 's review for:
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
by Brianna Wiest
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Overall, I think and know that some will find something useful from this book, and if that helps I’m glad of it. For certain sections I am likely too far along my own journey to gather much help from the book.
However, regardless of that, I still found the book reductive, over-simplistic, and topics surrounding mental health approached with a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality that could be detrimental for many.
For the audiobook version at least, there was a significant lack of footnotes or citations to real research to back up the framing when the author was trying to come off as an expert.
And there was no intersectionality taken into account for the framing of the entire book. I hadn’t realized, at first, that this book was published in 2020 because of this. To not acknowledge that brain chemistry, misogyny, racism, etc. shapes the mountain ranges we experience reduces those very real challenges to personal shortcomings that must be overcome.
I also found the content to be jumbled, with the author jumping rapidly between topics, sometimes reiterating arguments/points needlessly, or returning to previous/future topics for sharing more tangential thoughts. This made the content harder to follow and the main arguments of the book harder to grasp.
However, regardless of that, I still found the book reductive, over-simplistic, and topics surrounding mental health approached with a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality that could be detrimental for many.
For the audiobook version at least, there was a significant lack of footnotes or citations to real research to back up the framing when the author was trying to come off as an expert.
And there was no intersectionality taken into account for the framing of the entire book. I hadn’t realized, at first, that this book was published in 2020 because of this. To not acknowledge that brain chemistry, misogyny, racism, etc. shapes the mountain ranges we experience reduces those very real challenges to personal shortcomings that must be overcome.
I also found the content to be jumbled, with the author jumping rapidly between topics, sometimes reiterating arguments/points needlessly, or returning to previous/future topics for sharing more tangential thoughts. This made the content harder to follow and the main arguments of the book harder to grasp.