Why we’re excited
Lori Gottlieb, a working psychotherapist, takes the questions people bring her and looks for what she calls the story beneath them. The topics include family, friendship, money, betrayal, ageing and grief, and she uses individual cases to show patterns most readers will recognise.
Gottlieb's earlier book, about life on both sides of the therapy couch, was a major bestseller, and she has written advice columns for The Atlantic and now The New York Times. This is a natural next book for her readers, and a good choice for anyone who likes practical psychology told through real-life stories.
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What to know about I’m So Glad You Asked: A Therapist on the Questions That Shape Our Lives
We have reviewed one of Lori Gottlieb’s books so far: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
From the publisher
“Lori Gottlieb is one of the wisest, most compassionate therapists I know, and this book will help you understand yourself—and the people in your life—in a whole new way.” —Mel Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory
From the renowned psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone—which has sold over three million copies and been translated into more than forty languages—comes a powerful exploration of the questions that shape our lives.
How do I let go of the past?
How do I reveal a truth that could change everything?
How well can I really know the people I love?
Why is there a gap between what I want and what I do?
As a psychotherapist, Lori Gottlieb spends her days working with people in their most intimate moments—moments of grief, joy, confusion, longing, heartbreak, hope. Some of the struggles she sees are universal and timeless, while some belong distinctly to the modern world we inhabit, influenced by shifting norms and the accelerating pace of change. In her beloved columns—first at The Cut and The Atlantic, and now at The New York Times—Gottlieb brings readers around the world her signature insight and understanding, applying her disarmingly perceptive therapeutic lens to the private dilemmas we rarely share but need to untangle. And beneath it all—the decades of patients and thousands of letters—lies the same essential How do I make sense of my life and the people in it?
I’m So Glad You A Therapist on the Questions That Shape Our Lives offers readers a sweeping tour of our emotional landscape, uncovering what Gottlieb calls the “story beneath the question”—the hidden patterns, assumptions, and fears that often lie outside our awareness. Moving from the families that formed us to the friendships we struggle to sustain; from love, betrayal, and unfinished business to money, aging, grief, and the selves we are still learning to accept, Gottlieb shows how one person’s dilemma can uncover something strikingly recognizable in our own.
Again and again, she shifts the frame, challenges the stories we tell ourselves, and reveals possibilities we couldn’t see from inside our own lives. By turns intimate, provocative, moving, and unexpectedly funny, I’m So Glad You Asked transforms the seemingly ordinary dilemmas of everyday experience into profound revelations that can change how we understand ourselves and those around us.
No one who reads this eye-opening book will see their relationships, their choices—or themselves—the same way again.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read I’m So Glad You Asked: A Therapist on the Questions That Shape Our Lives yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
