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A review by unhingedbookbitch
Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture by Caroline Dooner
3.0
3⭐️
I thought she would talk more about how to deal with burnout but the majority of books lead up to how she was nonstop and focusing on bad practices in her life that lead to burnout.
She’s good about acknowledging her privilege as an upper middle class white woman but I still had trouble sympathizing for her but we had different lives I guess. When she was in high school, she was convincing her parents to get her a nose job, and, while I was in high school, I was working every weekend to help my mom pay rent. I know you can’t compare traumas and lives but it’s just hard for me to feel bad for a girl who was mainly fighting white woman stereotypes as a white woman. I don’t want to diminish Caroline’s struggles cause they were struggles but I just didn’t relate to her the more I read about her. I related to her disordered eating issues and figuring out what to do job-wise but like just the general emotions of it. I feel like books that offer self-help typically follow the format of here’s a situation here something I doubt with personally in relation to that situation, and here is how I process that situation. Whereas Caroline kind of put on for chapters and chapters about all her personal situation is that led up to her big change.
I like the idea of EFT that she brings up and that it’s important to deal with trauma and the negative effects of toxic positivity. We need to let our pain “air out” as she says.
This felt more like a prequel to Caroline’s first book “Fuck it Diet” and I didn’t even read that book.
I appreciate her honesty about her dieting and other aspects of her life but this book didn’t help me as much as I wish. I think I’m too mentally ill and past the capacity for this book to help me Lolol but it was still good. Ya girl (me) is just too sick in the head and needs something more.
I thought she would talk more about how to deal with burnout but the majority of books lead up to how she was nonstop and focusing on bad practices in her life that lead to burnout.
She’s good about acknowledging her privilege as an upper middle class white woman but I still had trouble sympathizing for her but we had different lives I guess. When she was in high school, she was convincing her parents to get her a nose job, and, while I was in high school, I was working every weekend to help my mom pay rent. I know you can’t compare traumas and lives but it’s just hard for me to feel bad for a girl who was mainly fighting white woman stereotypes as a white woman. I don’t want to diminish Caroline’s struggles cause they were struggles but I just didn’t relate to her the more I read about her. I related to her disordered eating issues and figuring out what to do job-wise but like just the general emotions of it. I feel like books that offer self-help typically follow the format of here’s a situation here something I doubt with personally in relation to that situation, and here is how I process that situation. Whereas Caroline kind of put on for chapters and chapters about all her personal situation is that led up to her big change.
I like the idea of EFT that she brings up and that it’s important to deal with trauma and the negative effects of toxic positivity. We need to let our pain “air out” as she says.
This felt more like a prequel to Caroline’s first book “Fuck it Diet” and I didn’t even read that book.
I appreciate her honesty about her dieting and other aspects of her life but this book didn’t help me as much as I wish. I think I’m too mentally ill and past the capacity for this book to help me Lolol but it was still good. Ya girl (me) is just too sick in the head and needs something more.