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From A Hopeless Romantic: How I Stopped Being Hopeless
When society tells you that you ought to be a damsel in distress just to have a knight in shining armour save you and fall in love with you, some hopeless romantics have grown up thinking that that is what’s required to have true love come to us.
Though, this book is not your fairytale. This book tells you about the living tale of a hopeless romantic who has deliberately chosen to live in the real world and find help for themselves instead. This book comes from the heart of a hopeless romantic who wrote letters, in hopes that it would reach another in amidst of their own quest of self-love and self-discovery, and that we can and actually are able to be saviours to our own internal damsels in distress.
From a Hopeless Romantic: How I Stopped Being Hopeless is a book on discovering and practising self-love, and to help begin the journey of finding yourself, understanding yourself, as well as to learn on how to prioritise yourself in your own life.
Though, this book is not your fairytale. This book tells you about the living tale of a hopeless romantic who has deliberately chosen to live in the real world and find help for themselves instead. This book comes from the heart of a hopeless romantic who wrote letters, in hopes that it would reach another in amidst of their own quest of self-love and self-discovery, and that we can and actually are able to be saviours to our own internal damsels in distress.
From a Hopeless Romantic: How I Stopped Being Hopeless is a book on discovering and practising self-love, and to help begin the journey of finding yourself, understanding yourself, as well as to learn on how to prioritise yourself in your own life.
52 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2019
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September 29, 2022
Pretty informative if you want to learn how to be independent without feeling the need to find someone to love
February 21, 2024
First off,
Such a beautiful cover!! It seems straight outta cozy Studio Ghibli movies. Lovely.
Now the book, the title attracted me the most. I usually identify myself as a hopeless romantic and with a lot of experiences life threw at me, now much of a conscious one.
This book seemed like one that mostly described me, the entirety of it. Never felt a book so relatable to me, a non fiction mainly!
I could relate a lot with the author and nodded my head most of the time with that she expressed. I could get her and she could get me. It was a weird experience for me to notice that it seemed like, while reading this, I was both the author and reader..
The author has done an excellent and genuine work with this book. She is open and has explained how things worked out for her. I loved how the concept of 'Detached attachment' humming throughout her short book.
Totally loved her idea of going from negative to neutral thinking and then to positive thinking. I agree with her as it is really, really grounded to reality.
Most of all, what I really loved about the entire book is her humbleness and how she totally gets how self transition, self love aren't that easy. She gets it because she has faced it. However, she also presses upon the fact that these things aren't at all impossible that they're very much possible and that they need consistency and might occur some day.
Apart from this, I suppose this book is more of a self published one because it seemed like there was a need for a proof reading at many turns of the pages. Could have been better if it were furnished.
A nice book regardless.
Such a beautiful cover!! It seems straight outta cozy Studio Ghibli movies. Lovely.
Now the book, the title attracted me the most. I usually identify myself as a hopeless romantic and with a lot of experiences life threw at me, now much of a conscious one.
This book seemed like one that mostly described me, the entirety of it. Never felt a book so relatable to me, a non fiction mainly!
I could relate a lot with the author and nodded my head most of the time with that she expressed. I could get her and she could get me. It was a weird experience for me to notice that it seemed like, while reading this, I was both the author and reader..
The author has done an excellent and genuine work with this book. She is open and has explained how things worked out for her. I loved how the concept of 'Detached attachment' humming throughout her short book.
Totally loved her idea of going from negative to neutral thinking and then to positive thinking. I agree with her as it is really, really grounded to reality.
Most of all, what I really loved about the entire book is her humbleness and how she totally gets how self transition, self love aren't that easy. She gets it because she has faced it. However, she also presses upon the fact that these things aren't at all impossible that they're very much possible and that they need consistency and might occur some day.
Apart from this, I suppose this book is more of a self published one because it seemed like there was a need for a proof reading at many turns of the pages. Could have been better if it were furnished.
A nice book regardless.
January 20, 2026
This book, the first few pages seemed a tad bit harsh. but then I realised it was written from a good place. The author means well, she truly does. The perspective shared works quite well, much needed advice even if it is tough love.
We don't know what the future has in store for us. However, we can ensure that we show up for ourselves first, before expecting or pining for anyone else to do that. It is very empowering that way.
My key take away is that we really are unquestionably self sufficient in fulfilling most of our expectations , needs and desires that we want out of life. Therefore we don't need to mold another human nor do we have to see another human being as a missing puzzle piece to our lives. They have autonomy over their lives just as we do. If and when you choose a partner, you do it with clarity.
This perspective redefines your standards quite a bit. You don't get swept away by someone for bare minimum nor will you settle for reasons that seem trivial once you set down the rose tinted glasses.
We don't know what the future has in store for us. However, we can ensure that we show up for ourselves first, before expecting or pining for anyone else to do that. It is very empowering that way.
My key take away is that we really are unquestionably self sufficient in fulfilling most of our expectations , needs and desires that we want out of life. Therefore we don't need to mold another human nor do we have to see another human being as a missing puzzle piece to our lives. They have autonomy over their lives just as we do. If and when you choose a partner, you do it with clarity.
This perspective redefines your standards quite a bit. You don't get swept away by someone for bare minimum nor will you settle for reasons that seem trivial once you set down the rose tinted glasses.
December 16, 2023
I couldn't finish this due to the amount of grammar and spelling mistakes! The content is sweet and I'm sad to give this a low rating, but the author should have at least given the book a read over before publishing it.
The cover art is beautiful though, it definitely grabbed my attention :)
The cover art is beautiful though, it definitely grabbed my attention :)
October 2, 2022
certified hopeless romantic
January 4, 2025
Good advice overall
December 16, 2023
This was a very cute self analysis book. It was interesting to read about the author, struggles and how she overcame them from a broad perspective, and it allowed readers to apply some of the things that the author tried in healing herself to their own daily lives.
It was honestly a good book to pick up and read in a quick amount of time. Now it’s just letting the information simmer and finding ways to apply it to
daily life!
It was honestly a good book to pick up and read in a quick amount of time. Now it’s just letting the information simmer and finding ways to apply it to
daily life!
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