#Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

[aaina-04]

I want a silent spectator for my life. I want someone to watch my foolish antics, like when I stop to stare at every peculiar leaf and tree I find on my way, when I jump up and down at the smell of the first rain and wait for the rain only to dance with joy as the first drops of the season trickle down my face. I want someone to see the peculiar dreams I dream and the the way I look at the night stars as if I'm talking to them. I want someone to see how I talk to the moon (as if I'm talking to a random acquaintance I see everyday at work) about how it shows a different face every night.

I want to be seen without showing myself.

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

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.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb

[brownsugar4hersoul]

" But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself - to let go of the limiting stories you've told yourself about who you are so that you aren't trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you've been telling yourself about your life. "

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

[signedbyvenus]

finished my favorite book of the year so far last week. feeling orfan without Lori.

🌿💫🤍

terminei meu livro favorito do ano semana passada. me sentindo órfã sem a Lori

[yomnaelsahn]

People tend to dream without doing, death remaining theoretical. We think we make buckets lists to ward off regret, but really they help us to ward off death. After all, the longer our bucket lists are, the more time we imagine we have left to accomplish everything on them. Cutting the list down, however, makes a tiny dent in our denial systems, forcing us to acknowledge a sobering truth: Life has a 100 percent mortality rate. Every single one of us will die, and most of us have no idea how or when that will happen. In fact, as each second passes, we’re all in the process of coming closer to our eventual deaths. As the saying goes, none of us will get out of here alive.

[bitteraristocrat]

D*dbastian people will really be like "omg remember when Sebastian pinned Ciel down in the carriage and stripped him of his clothes? He's such a good dad!!!" 🤪🤪 And they call proshippers the delusional ones.

[peach-tea-leaves]

Just One More Page Challenge Day 22: Books and Socks

Some comfy socks ft. one of my favorite reads of the past couple of years! Not only was reading this super cathartic, but it also offered a lot of insight into life as a therapist. I highly recommend!

[nataliewaitegf]

a few of my favorite bits from lori gottlieb’s ‘maybe you should talk to someone’

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

I've been in the "everybody can benefit from therapy" camp for a long time, so this book was confirming for me in a lot of ways. It was also humanizing and stimulating, with Gottlieb going to delicate lengths to highlight how we all have issues we're working through, whether we're conscious of them or not, and regardless of our age, gender, social standing, or occupation. She gives readers a better understanding of how mental/emotional health infiltrates our lives in general and why it can benefit us to seek therapy when we need it. Or want it.

There was something lovely about the way the author lifted the veil of therapy, destigmatizing it as well as demystifying what it means and how it can feel to go through the process. I appreciated her honesty, the realness and rawness of emotion. Not just when it came to the patients she was treating, either - but also the confusing highs and lows, the setbacks and breakthroughs, the blurred emotional lines she experienced in her own therapy sessions with Wendell. I liked the therapist/patient duality of this, especially. It evened the playing field in a way that underlined what it means to feel and love and hurt as a human, and how we're all out here trying our best to cope, to grow, and maybe even to heal.

All in all, this was a funny, compassionate, and poignant book that encourages mental health awareness/acceptance and doing what we can to better understand ourselves. I'd definitely recommend picking it up!

3/5 stars

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[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

Not speaking about something doesn't make it less real. It makes it scarier.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb

[parcai]

r u ready to start talking about the fight ur in?

you mean-

no, your fight with death ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🏃‍♀️💨🤼‍♂️🪤😐🧍‍♀️🧐🤨💯🥂

[chickensarentcheap]

Shit that hits. 

[madamemarmot]

The faster the speed, the thinking goes, the less endurance or effort required. Patience, on the other hand, requires endurance and effort. It's defined as "the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like." Of course, much of life is made up of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, and pain; in psychology, patience might be thought of as the bearing of these difficulties for long enough to work through them. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

[w-armansky-blog]

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. Often they inform how you relate to yourself and others. Sometimes you have conversations with them in your head; sometimes they speak to you in your sleep.  - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, 2019 Lori Gottlieb

all photos were taken by https://w-armansky-blog.tumblr.com/    

[selenakaiba]

❞ سلام. لا يعني ذلك أن تكون في مكان يغيب عنه الضوضاء أو المشكلات، أو العمل الشّاقّ. يعني أن تكون وسط هذه الجلبة، ومع ذلك تشعر بالسكينة في قرارة نفسك ❝

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