so-soI picked this up on the personal recommendation of a bookseller, who loved it, and because the author‘s novel, Death Valley, was one of my favorite reads last year. All I can say is… this will not be one of my favorite reads this year. 🙈
I suspected it might be too much (and too gross) for me after the first two essays, about consuming your own bodily secretions and working for a tantric sex nonprofit, respectively.👇🏻
so-soThis is an important story which will demonstrate to kids the way depression feels and that there is still hope. That said, it felt like an energy depleting not energy giving story.
pickI learned a lot about social anxiety and selective mutism through this one. It‘s given me food for thought for myself and my kiddos. I appreciated that Mira‘s concerns with friends, speaking in front of class, and interacting with a younger sibling are pretty universal even with everything else she‘s dealing with.
pickI have historically struggled with CBT (I experience it as abrasive and dismissive, though in fairness I have mostly had shoddy practitioners). But it‘s undeniably the most data-driven and evidence-supported therapeutic model, so I‘m giving it another go. This book was incredibly useful. It has the same maddening condescension as my most annoying therapists, but it‘s presented as a tool in context. The exercises are extremely effective. Recommend!
so-soAn effective memoir of growing up with OCD. I was glad to read that Pan eventually asked for help and received it. I was disappointed that the resolution from his disordered eating wasn‘t discussed. That can be an incredibly difficult battle, but it was never mentioned again.
pickEveryone needs to read this book.
pickTough Guy (Game Changers 3), by Rachel Reid (2020 🇨🇦)
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Premise: A defenceman struggling with the enforcer role he‘s forced to play finds a new lease on life when he bumps into a flamboyant singer with whose family he billeted as a teenager.
Review: So this series is everywhere now because of its viral television adaptation, but I‘ve been dipping in and out of it for a few years. ⬇️
