Maybe you should talk to someone ~ Lori Gottlieb ☆ Book Review
Another non-fiction to my tally- this one being one I had been wanting to read.
It took me way too long to read this book (11days!) ; and although I won’t keep this one, i’m glad I read it. Lots of quotes!
4 ⭐️ / 5 stars
I found this really interresting how we got a look on the behind of the scenes of therapy. It wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I picked it up, in fact I was scared of how huge the hardcover was- although it reads easily, I was pleasantly surprised.
It however took me quite some time to read, despite being interresting, nonfictions does makes me sleepy at time 😅 and the more days it took me to read, the more itchy to DNF that I was..
« People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn’t the absence of feelings; it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings. »
« Above all, I didn’t want to fall into the trap that Buddhists call idiot compassion – an apt phrase, given John’s worldview. In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people’s feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed. »
« So many of our destructive behaviors take root in an emotional void, an emptiness that calls out for something to fill it »
« Relationships in life don’t really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you’ve been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)–all of them evoke memories, conscious or not. »
« You’ll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not,” she said. “What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won’t get today back. »