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Healing Isn’t Pretty: A Real Guide to Emotional Recovery & Self-Respect

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Have you tried to heal, move on, and feel better, but nothing seems to work?

Do you still feel broken inside, even after months or years of trying to “get over it”?If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, don’t worry — there is hope for you.

Before you can truly move on and find peace, you need to understand that healing is not about forgetting what happened or pretending it didn’t hurt. It’s about facing your pain, understanding it, and finally learning how to let it go. Positive affirmations and temporary distractions can only take you so far. If you want to feel real peace, you need to heal from within.

Healing is what helps you rebuild your strength when everything feels like it’s falling apart. It gives you the emotional clarity needed to stop repeating the same patterns, to forgive yourself, and to rediscover who you are beneath the pain.

How would you feel if I told you that your inability to heal does not mean you are broken or weak, but that no one has ever taught you how to truly process your emotions?

People are not born knowing how to heal. Just like any skill, it’s something you can learn. In Healing Isn’t Pretty, Mira Hartson gives you the tools and guidance to understand your emotions, rebuild your self-worth, and find peace after the storm. Through powerful insights, relatable stories, and emotional truth, you will

How to stop suppressing emotions that are silently controlling your life

How to understand your pain and turn it into personal power

How to release guilt, resentment, and self-blame

How to rebuild self-trust and reconnect with your true self

How to find peace even when your heart still hurts

And much more


By applying the lessons in this book, you will rediscover your inner strength, reconnect with your heart, and finally start healing from the inside out.

You can’t change the past, but you can take back control of your present and future.

Start your healing journey today by getting your copy of Healing Isn’t Pretty and take the first step toward peace, self-acceptance, and freedom

👉 For bonus content and more books, visit healingisntpretty.com

401 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 10, 2025

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10 reviews2 followers
September 1, 2025
I haven't even read it, I'm just sick of the bots on TikTok recommending this dumbass AI written book.
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9 reviews1 follower
August 21, 2025
AI written garbage. Read it in an hour. Low quality crap to capitalize on the popularity of Self-healing isn’t pretty by Mira rowen
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2 reviews5 followers
December 13, 2025
Ai written slop that keeps getting advertised on tiktok using fake bot accounts
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29 reviews3 followers
November 18, 2025
haven’t read but it’s written by ai and the bots on tiktok are pissing me off w the recommendations in comment sections😭
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9 reviews
September 29, 2025
Such a lovely book, it’s so insightful and I’ve felt so grounded reading it during a difficult time. I’d recommend this book to anyone and everyone!
2 reviews1 follower
October 16, 2025
Healing Isn’t Pretty by Mira Hartson is a book dedicated to helping people, specifically teenagers, find tips and tricks to change their mindset on the world and how they approach everyday life. The author, Mira Hartson, goes over many topics throughout the book ranging from how people always felt “too much” to the performance of healing. You would think that most of the chapters sound the same and that she is just talking about the same things over and over again. That’s not the case though, the more interested you are in the book the more each chapter will mean to you and help you find significant ways to approach each topic.

This book taught me “how the body remembers everything” (Hartson 12). I always thought that after a small incident, your body would get over it and forget about it, but that’s not the case. That is one thing I really enjoyed learning about early on in the book. As soon as I read that section, I started to notice it in my daily life if something were to happen. My body remembered and gave and still gives me signs that it does. At the beginning of the book, I was super invested and loved every part of the book. Though as the book progressed, I was getting less interested because I felt as if the book was telling me the same thing over and over again. I knew it wasn’t and towards the end of the book I realized that and enjoyed the book again.

Even though the book was a little hard to comprehend with all of the topics blending together, ultimately I would recommend this book. At the very end of the book she explains how she realized that she always had a voice and that it just needed to be heard. She states “Truth doesn’t always need to be beautiful, it needs to be yours” (Hartson). I think that this quote would really stand out to a lot of people and gradually going deeper into what that means could mean a lot to some people.
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2 reviews
January 26, 2026
Genuinely, I am VERY disappointed in this book and concerned IF the author is even a real person. (Cannot find a THING about this Author Mira Hartson, and this book is the only book for this author as of right now 1/16/2025.)

The author unfortunately didn't even include more helpful tips and tricks or how they would recommend suggestions after stating (quite a bit) that you shouldn't be ashamed of yourself/your body/ that it is okay to feel your feelings and that your trauma doesn't define you, you are in control of your power once you grasp that you've always had it.
I'm not entirely sure if this book has ripped off from multiple other sources or experiences of other written work, but it could seem so. (Cannot entirely be sure, everyone has different or similar thought processes and coping processes, I mean we all do get our ideas from processing information and then applying it)

I also noticed that this 'author' REALLY likes the word 'meticulously' or 'meticulous' a LOT. (You're welcome once and if you keep noticing this if you continue to read. Mwahaha)

I'm not impressed; this book was not at all easy to get into as it keeps repeating their chapters or rewording them as mentioned above (See what I did there?).

I couldn't even finish it; I got to Chapter 7 of the book (In Part 2). You'll also notice that if you downloaded the book on Kindle and look at the 'Table of Contents' of this book), this book seems to be missing a Part 3.
NOTICE HOW THERE IS NO PART 3.
There is a Part 4 following Part 2, in which shows Chapters 6-15 (for Part 2).
Part 4 then takes over, SKIPPING Part 3 (which is nonsensical and goes to show--most likely an AI created book.)

If I could go with 0 stars on this, I would (but can't obviously).
Due to the disorganized content, and lack of information about the Author. Concluding that this book is false advertising help from an actual author. (I saw this book on TikTok. So that is my bad for trusting that this book would actually be helpful.) I really wish I could get my money back. DON'T PURCHASE, unless you really want to see what I mean and or don't mind the repetitive and bad editing.

ADDING: I did get an official refund from Amazon Kindle for this book. I suggest you advocate for yourself if you also feel the need to get a refund.
1 review
September 29, 2025
The book "Healing Isn't Pretty" touched my heart in a big way. Many of us think healing is a simple, beautiful process, but this book shatters that notion. Author Mira Hartson very clearly shows that the path to healing can be painful, messy, and unpleasant at times.
3 reviews
September 25, 2025
AI written garbage. Read it in an hour. Low quality crap to capitalize on the popularity of Self-healing isn’t pretty by Mira rowen.
2 reviews1 follower
September 25, 2025
Very excellent site. Thank you for the very excellent site.
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1 review1 follower
September 26, 2025
Raw, honest, vulnerable guide embracing messy, non - linear journey of healing
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September 30, 2025
Good book
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1 review
October 1, 2025
Nice book ever
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