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A review by chloe_liese
How to Come Alive Again: A guide to killing your monsters by Beth McColl
5.0
“If you’re hurt, you’re deserving of healing. If you’re having a hard time, you deserve that time to end. Your pain requires confronting and unpacking and banishing through determination, empathy and positive support.”
How to Come Alive Again helped me tackle the lie of internalized ableism, that not until I’m at my breaking point do I deserve rest, that not until I’m sobbing do I deserve joy. Anyone with invisible illness, with maskable disabilities will resonate with this feeling, this lie of our culture that says we have to hide our struggle, that we don’t get to pace ourselves or stop producing or sleep or nourish ourselves or need cuddles and hot baths, that we can’t have slow, low days.
But that’s BS and this book helped me recalibrate not to anyone else’s styles or standards, but to my own, to the truth that I’m the way I’m supposed to be, and I deserve love and patience as I live and operate how I’m made to. Absolutely recommend for people working through anxiety and depression, who need practical life hacks and mantras for honoring our needs in our mental health journeys.
How to Come Alive Again helped me tackle the lie of internalized ableism, that not until I’m at my breaking point do I deserve rest, that not until I’m sobbing do I deserve joy. Anyone with invisible illness, with maskable disabilities will resonate with this feeling, this lie of our culture that says we have to hide our struggle, that we don’t get to pace ourselves or stop producing or sleep or nourish ourselves or need cuddles and hot baths, that we can’t have slow, low days.
But that’s BS and this book helped me recalibrate not to anyone else’s styles or standards, but to my own, to the truth that I’m the way I’m supposed to be, and I deserve love and patience as I live and operate how I’m made to. Absolutely recommend for people working through anxiety and depression, who need practical life hacks and mantras for honoring our needs in our mental health journeys.