Every year\, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist&rsquo\;s couch&mdash\;and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable book Maybe Yo u Should Talk to Someone\, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her li cense and rigorous training\, her most significant credential is that she& rsquo\;s a card-carrying member of the human race. &ldquo\;I know what it& rsquo\;s like to be a person\,&rdquo\; she writes\, as a crisis causes her world to come crashing down.
\nEnter Wendell\, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly l ands. With his balding head\, cardigan\, and khakis\, he seems to have com e straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anyt hing but. In her book\, Lori explores the inner chambers of her patients&r squo\; lives&mdash\;a self-absorbed Hollywood producer\, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness\, a senior citizen threatening to end he r life on her birthday if nothing gets better\, and a twenty-something who can&rsquo\;t stop hooking up with the wrong guys (even one from the waiti ng room)&mdash\;she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
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With startling wisdom and humor\, Gottlieb reveals our blind spots\, exa mining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter o n the tightrope between love and desire\, meaning and mortality\, guilt an d redemption\, terror and courage\, hope and change.
\nMaybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionar y in its candor\, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hea rts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portra it 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.
\ nWe invite you to join us as Gottlieb sha res her wisdom on examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves to h elp us breakthrough what is holding us back and getting in the way of livi ng the life we desire. Register now to start your journey! \;
\nAbout the Author
\nLo ri Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling a uthor of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, which has sold over t wo million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series st arring Kristen Bell. In addition to her clinical practice\, she co-hosts t he popular &ldquo\;Dear Therapists&rdquo \; podcast produced by Katie Couric and writes The Atlantic&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Dear Therapist&rdquo\; advice colu mn. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show\, Good Mo rning America\, CBS This Morning\, CNN\, and NPR&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Fresh Ai r&rdquo\; and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year. She is the creato r of the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Edit ing Your Story and Changing Your Life and the Maybe You Should Ta lk To Someone Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life. Lea rn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her on Instagram @l origottlieb_author and X \;@LoriGottlieb1.
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