A review by beckykphillips
How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever's Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things by Kate Williams

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

3.5

How to Stop Trying is an incredibly vulnerable book exploring how women are conditioned to perfect every aspect of their lives and how we can start to recognize these pressures and let them go. Kate Williams is incredibly open and talks about her struggles with infertility and all of the mental hoops she went through to be able to let herself stop trying to get pregnant, and how she's been working to apply that to the rest of her life. 

This book definitely resonated with me, and I really appreciated what Kate brought to the reading by listening to her book and would definitely recommend the format. I will say though, as someone without kids, I felt that a lot of the advice was really focused toward moms and people with kids. I would definitely recommend it to anyone with kiddos, but probably not as much for folks without them. 

Thanks so much to NetGalley and to Macmillan Audio for the advanced copy.

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