A review by snoopygal7
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy by Jamie C. Martin

Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.

Initially, I enjoyed this book. I came to not like the really brief segmented parts of this book. While I was expecting this book to provide support and encouragement as an introverted mother facing challenges of extroverted aspects of raising a child (and having an extroverted child), instead it was more of a justification towards why it’s okay to feel this way. Okay to shun your child? Okay to isolate? Okay to feel like you’re going mad amongst the stimulation? This felt like the authors own passion and deep dive into authors or poets she admired that shared like mindedness, rather than a biblical context of overcoming some of these challenges. After awhile, I didn’t feel like I was gaining a whole lot. It just reiterated what I already know about myself- but rather then feedback in feeling challenged by this— it was more an affirmation of why you shouldn’t feel guilty of being like this. Stopped listening shortly after the whole “self care” discussion, which is such a current worldly developed concept. Ugh.