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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

By: Lori Gottlieb
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
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"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." (Kirkus, starred review)

"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing." (Katie Couric)

"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book." (Arianna Huffington, founder, Huffington Post and founder & CEO, Thrive Global)

"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book." (Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet)

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives - a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a 20-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

©2019 Lori Gottlieb (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
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"Brittany Pressley performs this audiobook at a fast pace that will be familiar to listeners who live in large, bustling cities. But she knows how to moderate her energy for the tender sections, and her overall performance sounds authentic, conversational, and true to the core intentions of the author's story....Portrayed by Pressley, [the author] also sounds like someone you know, which makes her observations and insights all the more accessible." (AudioFile Magazine)

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Who shrinks the shrink?
"We may not spend the precious hours we have with our therapists learning about their lives, but Lori Gottlieb's smart and funny memoir makes you at least think about asking the next one you meet, "Hey, how are you?" It took enduring a brutal breakup and having to still focus on her patients, despite her own inner turmoil, to make Gottlieb realize she could use a little therapy herself. She shares the reality of navigating her own complex emotional life while trying to help others do the same with an utterly believable voice that feels like a movie you'd love to see, without it being absurdly overblown. It's voiced by narrator Brittany Pressley in a way that literally makes you want to make Gottlieb your new BFF, if it weren't for those pesky doctor-patient boundaries."
Abby W., Audible Editor

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I am actually going to purchase the hardcover of this book because there are so many things in it worth highlighting and underlining for future reference. That being said, I am very glad that I purchased the Audible version first. Brittany Pressley is an amazing narrator, which made an excellant book even more enjoyable.
Absolutely worth the credit used!

Loved it !

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Sign me up that's what you feel like after you finish this book, like you should go talk to a psychologist , but like most people you don't think you need too. I love the reader , what a great job she did, If your having 2nd thoughts about this book ,don't it's worth listening too

Fantastic

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I’m bummed this book is over. The way the author reveals her work in therapy and her work with her own clients made me forget I didn’t know these people. I appreciate the honesty behind each character and the way she says the things most people think but don’t say out loud. The narrator’s performance felt spot on throughout the whole book as well; adding to the story instead of distracting from it. Very very much enjoyed.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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I absolutely loved this book. Beautifully written, funny, soul crushing, uplifting, and will make you think about yourself in a different way.

Beautiful and thought provoking

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I celebrate this book because of how NORMAL she makes taking care of one's mental health. I am over therapy being a taboo. I liked going through her journey with her (and the journey of her patients) and I think all in all it was pretty authentic. It made me feel like I was visiting one of my girlfriends and talking through all of our issues (cuz we've ALL got issues...)

Good read - I recommend it!

Mental Health Should be the Norm

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