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A review by laynemandros
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
5.0
Review: Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
This book gutted me. I shed more than a few womanly tears while reading. It was so good, so human, so thoughtful. There’s nothing I can really say except you have to read this book.
Lori is a therapist and she also has a therapist. This is the dynamic that initially pulled me in. As someone who sees a therapist, I’m oftentimes thinking, when my therapist has an emotional crisis, does she also go to therapy? What is the dynamic like? And Lori didn’t disappoint her relationship with Wendell was fascinating and I loved reading about it.
What was even more emotional and thought provoking was her relationships with her patients. Lori is a beautiful writer and she did an amazing job of leading the reader through her patients growth and development. I was rooting for every single one of them and their stories were heartbreaking, hilarious, relatable, and totally captivating. I could not put this down. I went to sleep reading it and would immediately pick it back up in the morning. I will ruminate on these stories for quite sometime.
The most powerful thing that this book did, like many others we come across in our lives, it made me think inward. As I was reading I was thinking: do I do that? do I cope in that way? are my communication styles healthy? what am I really doing when I behave this way? am I deflecting? I felt like Lori was getting inside my head and compelling me to think even more deeply about myself, my relationships, and the kind of person I strive to be.
TW: death, mental health, anxiety, unhealthy relationships, cancer. Thank you so much @jin_and_juice13 for gifting this to me for my birthday. One of the best presents I have ever received.
This book gutted me. I shed more than a few womanly tears while reading. It was so good, so human, so thoughtful. There’s nothing I can really say except you have to read this book.
Lori is a therapist and she also has a therapist. This is the dynamic that initially pulled me in. As someone who sees a therapist, I’m oftentimes thinking, when my therapist has an emotional crisis, does she also go to therapy? What is the dynamic like? And Lori didn’t disappoint her relationship with Wendell was fascinating and I loved reading about it.
What was even more emotional and thought provoking was her relationships with her patients. Lori is a beautiful writer and she did an amazing job of leading the reader through her patients growth and development. I was rooting for every single one of them and their stories were heartbreaking, hilarious, relatable, and totally captivating. I could not put this down. I went to sleep reading it and would immediately pick it back up in the morning. I will ruminate on these stories for quite sometime.
The most powerful thing that this book did, like many others we come across in our lives, it made me think inward. As I was reading I was thinking: do I do that? do I cope in that way? are my communication styles healthy? what am I really doing when I behave this way? am I deflecting? I felt like Lori was getting inside my head and compelling me to think even more deeply about myself, my relationships, and the kind of person I strive to be.
TW: death, mental health, anxiety, unhealthy relationships, cancer. Thank you so much @jin_and_juice13 for gifting this to me for my birthday. One of the best presents I have ever received.