Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Posted on 25 December 2018 by Lori Gottlieb

From a New York Times best selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist s world where her patients are looking for answers and so is she.One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients lives a self absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty something who can t stop hooking up with the wrong guys she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell about desire and need, guilt and redemption, meaning and mortality, loneliness and love Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, pulling back the curtain on the therapeutic process and offering the rarest of gifts an entertaining, illuminating, and quite possibly life changing account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them. Free Read Books Maybe You Should Talk to Someone author Lori Gottlieb – kino-fada.fr If you ve followed me here on Goodreads for any length of time, you probably know that I am incredibly passionate about mental health advocacy It s something that we need to talk about , so we can break down the stigma surrounding it andpeople can pursue help So it should not be a surprise that I was excited to read a memoir about a therapist pursuing therapy to help her deal with her own issues or that I absolutely loved the book.These days, I m pretty open abou...Audiobook narrated by Brittany Pressley Brittany was excellent I can see reasons for owing a hard copy as well as the Audiobook Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist who writes a Dear Therapist advice column She lives in Los Angeles She attended Yale and Stanford University She has an impressive life career resume We are taken into her therapy sessions with her clients We also walk through the door with Lori for sessions with her therapist This book is the real deal not cheesy Audiobook narrated by Brittany Pressley Brittany wa...I m really not sure what to say about this book The positives I like that it is open and honest about mental health, therapy, self love, and facing our fears even if we re unaware what those fears are More books with a focus on these themes need to be written I felt close to each character as I got to know them and truly cared about the outcome of each of their stories The not so positives I m not really sure what the point of this book is It seemed like a journal that the author late I m really not sure what to say about this book The positives I like that it is open and honest about mental health, therapy, self love, and facing our fears even if we re unaware what those fears are More books with a focus on these themes need to be written I felt close to each character as I got to know them and truly cared about the outcome of each of their stories The not so positives I m not really sure what the point of this book is It seemed like a journal that the author later decided to publish which she kind of admits to at the end It was clearly therapeutic to her to write it and make sense of what she had been through, but I m not sure how helpful her breakup experience is to the rest of us...Check out my review on BooktubeEver have a book that just completely blows you away This was THAT book for me.I listened to the audio which was perfection The narrator was one of the best I ve ever listened to but I had to have a print copy for highlighting putting on my 5 bookshelf The set up LA therapist Lori Gottlieb finds herself in need of her own therapist, so we get alternating chapters with her and her wise therapist Wendell interspersed with chapters of Lori s sessions with her clients I was SO inve Ever have a book that just completely blows you away This was THAT book for me.I listened to the audio which was perfection The narrator was one of the best I ve ever listened to but I had to have a print copy for highlighting putting on my 5 bookshelf The set up LA therapist Lori Gottlieb finds herself in need of her own therapist, so we get alternating chapters with her and her wise therapist Wendell interspersed with chapters of Lori s sessions with her cl...Absolutely wonderful In terms of a therapeutic experience, it fell smack in the middle between Eat, Pray, Love and Quiet for me When you close the book, you can t go back to who you were before A check mark on every page.I rarely give a book one star because I don t want to be mean, but this book was a complete waste of my time and it had such great reviews from so many people I feel like I was cheated out of however long it took me to read well, actually listen If yo...I was blown away by this book Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who shares her insights not only about her professional experience but her own journey through therapy This book helps normalize therapy for everyone, and her ability to share the profound growth both she and her patients experienced was so honest and refreshing While Gottlieb includes many important psychological concepts, her writing is clear and conversational and easy for anyone to engage with I found that there was a perfect bal I was blown away by this book Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who shares her insights not only about her professional experience but her own journey through therapy This book helps normalize therapy for everyone, and her ability to share the profound growth both she and her patients experienced was so honest and refreshing While Gottlieb includes many important psychological concepts, her writing is clear and conversational and easy for anyone to engage with I found that there was a perfect balance with the personal stories...As a therapist and a writer myself, I have immense respect for what s involved in this type of book how to reveal herself but not too much how to reveal her patients but not too much how to reveal the profession but not too much Really, it s an incredible high w...Summary This memoir was a fascinating look at being a therapist and included many engaging, emotional stories.Author Lori Gottlieb is an experienced therapist, but that doesn t mean she never needs a therapist herself After a surprising break up leaves her sneaking in a good cry between patients, she realizes it s time to talk to someone This is the story of how she builds a helpful rapport with her therapist and of the patients she s helping at the same time From her perspective, we get to Summary This memoir was a fascinating look at being a therapist and included many engaging, emotional stories.Author Lori Gottlieb is an experienced therapist, but that doesn t mean she never needs a therapist herself After a surprising break up leaves her sneaking in a good cry between patients, she realizes it s time to talk to someone This is the story of how she builds a helpful rapport with her therapist and of the patients she s helping at the same time From her perspective, we get to learn about both sides of the therapist patient relationships, as well as some of the experiences and training that led her to become a therapist in the first place.I enjoyed the writing in this book immensely The author did a wonderful job describing the little details of each scene I felt like I got to know her patients and her therapist through her stories There was, perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of analysis of the author s own feelings and motivations She made insightful connect...

25 December 2018

Lori Gottlieb