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Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture
by Caroline Dooner
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Caveat first to say that like 88% or so into it, I looked up the author and found some shitty things 🙃 Some of it makes a lot of sense and is understandable given the stuff she talks about in the book, like her believing a lot of conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the COVID vaccine, but the worst is the stuff she apparently said about trans people. You would think given her own weight-related body dysmorphia she would better understand and empathize with gender-related body dysmorphia, but I guess not.
Regardless of the author as a person, I took so much away from this book personally, and that alone means a ton to me. It's actually so wild and funny to me that I just read The Magic of Tidying Up like two books before this because that book was a catalyst for her changing her life and doing away with things in her life that didn't bring her joy, and by things I don't mean just possessions.
I loved the format of this book, how it was a kind of hybrid of self-help and memoir. I think a lot of her story is super relatable, and the author has a funny voice and writing style. The chapter titles were also amusing given the self-help criticism.
There are so many great takeaways in this book. How terrible diet culture and our society's fixation on weight and appearances overall, the incessant need to always be improving, the push to be productive all. The. Time. I felt so much of it, especially the latter two, so strongly. I feel like this book is helping me realize just how many things are on my Declaration of Exhaustion and giving me the push I need to get some off of my plate.
Regardless of the author as a person, I took so much away from this book personally, and that alone means a ton to me. It's actually so wild and funny to me that I just read The Magic of Tidying Up like two books before this because that book was a catalyst for her changing her life and doing away with things in her life that didn't bring her joy, and by things I don't mean just possessions.
I loved the format of this book, how it was a kind of hybrid of self-help and memoir. I think a lot of her story is super relatable, and the author has a funny voice and writing style. The chapter titles were also amusing given the self-help criticism.
There are so many great takeaways in this book. How terrible diet culture and our society's fixation on weight and appearances overall, the incessant need to always be improving, the push to be productive all. The. Time. I felt so much of it, especially the latter two, so strongly. I feel like this book is helping me realize just how many things are on my Declaration of Exhaustion and giving me the push I need to get some off of my plate.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Dysphoria
Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness