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Part memoir, part Therapy 101
This book is fun to read, if a tad overlong. Lori takes the reader through a time in her life while she was in post-breakup therapy while also seeing her own patients. Funny, heartwarming, and smart — self aware, too, when she compares herself to Elizabeth Gilbert in a not super kind way. Lori’s problems seem small and a bit bougie at first (she doesn’t want to write a book she already took a hefty advance for!) but underneath the surface of her issues are a lot of relatable fears and plenty of growth and wisdom.
It made me think a lot and didn’t get weighted down by too much seriousness, but I struggled in my reading without an explanation for how real Lori’s sessions with her patients could be or if they were all just made up for the reader’s benefit. They seemed too specific to be real without some explicit permission, but if this was explained I missed it.
This book is fun to read, if a tad overlong. Lori takes the reader through a time in her life while she was in post-breakup therapy while also seeing her own patients. Funny, heartwarming, and smart — self aware, too, when she compares herself to Elizabeth Gilbert in a not super kind way. Lori’s problems seem small and a bit bougie at first (she doesn’t want to write a book she already took a hefty advance for!) but underneath the surface of her issues are a lot of relatable fears and plenty of growth and wisdom.
It made me think a lot and didn’t get weighted down by too much seriousness, but I struggled in my reading without an explanation for how real Lori’s sessions with her patients could be or if they were all just made up for the reader’s benefit. They seemed too specific to be real without some explicit permission, but if this was explained I missed it.