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A review by dkmons
Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture by Caroline Dooner
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I’m extremely disappointed with this book. I loved (most of) the F*ck it Diet and recommend it to a lot of my clients (I'm a Dietitian-Nutritionist). When I heard Caroline Dooner was writing a book on burnout, and how diet culture, hustle culture, etc. can contribute to chronic stress and burnout, I was IN.
10 pages in, it already felt like a rambling hot mess. I've read memoirs I liked before - this was not one of them. It isn't until around the last 50 pages of the book that the author talks about anything she actually did to help herself rest. And even then, it's not very clear - she stopped dieting (ok, covered that in her previous book), stopped pushing herself so hard, worked on some toxic societal expectations of women nearing 30, and saw some doctors. I know she says it's not a self-help book. But it's *definitely* marketed as one, which is really misleading.
10 pages in, it already felt like a rambling hot mess. I've read memoirs I liked before - this was not one of them. It isn't until around the last 50 pages of the book that the author talks about anything she actually did to help herself rest. And even then, it's not very clear - she stopped dieting (ok, covered that in her previous book), stopped pushing herself so hard, worked on some toxic societal expectations of women nearing 30, and saw some doctors. I know she says it's not a self-help book. But it's *definitely* marketed as one, which is really misleading.