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- How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
- Narrated by: Christie Tate
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
‘This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read. It will make you want to get better, whatever better means for you.’
Lisa Taddeo, New York Times bestselling author of Three Women
For fans of Three Women and Everything I Know About Love comes a refreshingly original memoir about self-discovery, loneliness and love. A guarded young lawyer reluctantly joins a psychotherapy group where she has to share her innermost thoughts with six complete strangers. In turn she finds human connection, and herself.
“What’s going to happen to me when I start group?”
“All of your secrets are going to come out.”
Christie Tate has just been named the top student in her law school class and seems to finally have got her eating disorder under control. So why is she driving through Chicago fantasising about her own death?
Desperate, she joins Dr Rosen’s psychotherapy group, and through his unconventional methods, he challenges everything she thought she knew, about herself and others. In group, secrets are not allowed. This means telling a group of strangers everything – about her struggle with bulimia, her failed sex life, her overwhelming sense of loneliness and acute longing for a relationship. And as she keeps sharing her thoughts and feelings and listens to the others doing the same, her life slowly begins to change.
This is a deliciously compelling read, and an intimate journey through the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy – a process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.
Praise for Group
‘This book will remind you how to come back to yourself even when you want to give up, make you laugh, make you cry, help you breathe. This book will save lives’ Lidia Yuknavitch
‘Real transformation is not for the faint of heart, and in these pages Christie Tate captures her evolution in all its misery and hilarity, along with the beauty of bearing witness to one another as we grow.’ Sarah Hepola
‘Christie Tate takes us on a journey that's heartbreaking and hilarious, surprising and redemptive – and, ultimately, a testament to the power of connection.’ Lori Gottlie
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- Mary
- 03-01-21
Thoroughly enjoyed!
Brutally honest account of the importance of self reflection and awareness to lead a happy and fulfilling life.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-04-21
Loved it
Great book, full of hope, interesting to read to understand more about therapy, although not all therapy is anything like this.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-11-20
Read this!
This is such an important and inspiring book - everyone should read it. Thank you Christie!!!
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- Andie Broomfield
- 08-03-21
Excellent.
Absolutely loved this book. Moving & entertaining , I laughed & cried in equal measure.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-01-21
Loved it!!
Refreshing and honest
An interesting insight into group therapy.
Well read and enjoyable to listen to
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- Anonymous User
- 12-12-20
Good, if you find it relatable to your own life.
I enjoyed this book. I have to say that throughout the book I found myself wondering if the group therapy was a thing of fiction as have never heard of therapy like it before, so it wasn't always easy for me to understand BUT I enjoyed the candidness of the auther and did find myself relating and feeling her pain.
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- Sarah Balmer
- 22-06-21
Wonderful Memoir
Stunning memoir and story. Christie’s honesty will stay with me forever and can imagine in months to come I’ll look back and think about this book and her experiences.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-12-23
Her emotional journey
Her book helped me reflect on my own personal life and experiences with the emotions shame and anger. Pleasantly surprised to read that the group therapy was inspired by my favourite therapist’s - Irvin Yalon
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- Judimaxx
- 04-06-21
honest portrail of a young female finding herself
loved it and appreciated the honestly in her story. touching memoir to her youth
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- Lucinda
- 19-05-21
Insightful and entertaining
This was actually a really useful book. Would recommend to anyone interested in understanding more about attachments and how to become more emotionally available.
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