Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life

by Lori Gottlieb

Based on Lori Gottlieb's groundbreaking runaway bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, this official companion journal offers 52 weekly thought-provoking sessions to help you transform your life.

"Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way," Lori tells readers. "Each line, sentence, and word you write in this journal is an essential step, one footprint on a path to meaningful and lasting change."

In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb gave us a brilliant behind the scenes look at a therapist doing everything to help her patients--and herself. Now, in this gorgeous guided journal, you can put Gottlieb's compelling ideas into practice in your own life. Structured as a weekly therapy session, the journal takes you through 52 thought-provoking prompts to consider over the course of seven days-just like the time between sessions-opening the possibility for meaningful growth and reflection.

Along with captivating illustrations, reflective coloring pages, kindness check-ins, progress assessments, and Lori's personal introduction, this journal offers a unique experience to help you gently go deep and hear the clarity of your own voice. Love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, and hope and change have never been more accessible than in this must-have, powerful road map for changing your life.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology, Mental Health, Personal Development, Health, Reference

240 pages, Hardcover

Published November 15, 2022

About the author

LORI GOTTLIEB is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE, which has sold nearly two million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series. In addition to her clinical practice, she is co-host of the popular “DEAR THERAPISTS" PODCAST, which features real sessions with real people and offers actionable advice, and writes The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” advice column. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year.

She is the creator of the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life and the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life.

Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her on Instagram @lorigottlieb_author and Twitter @LoriGottlieb1.

Reviews

[ولاء شكري · Rating 3 out of 5]

▪︎يعتقد الرجل المعاصر أنه يخسر شيئاً ما -الوقت- عندما لا يقوم بالأشياء بسرعة، غير أنه لا يعلم ما هو فاعل في الوقت الذي يكتسبه سوى قتله.

▪︎التغيير والخسارة يسيران معاً جنباً إلى جنب، فلا يسعنا أن نُحدث أي تغيير من دون خسارة.

▪︎عندما نشعر بالهشاشة نكون مثل البيض النيء، نتشقق ونتناثر إذا سقطنا، لكن عندما نطور قدراً أكبر من المرونة نصبح كما البيض المسلوق، قد نُحدث صوتاً ونتصدع إذا سقطنا، لكننا لا نتشقق بالكامل ولن نتناثر في أرجاء المكان!

▪︎إن طبيعة الحياة هي التغيير، وطبيعة الناس هي المقاومة.

▪︎نحن ننمو عبر التواصل مع الآخرين

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great so far! I received this Goodreads Giveaway publisher copy in December, so it was perfect to save and start in the new year. I have faithfully completed the prompts each day so far and am enjoying the opportunity to find new ways to open up and be more thoughtful and intentional in my reflections and relationships.

[Steve Booth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed this birds-eye view of the life of a therapist. Lori Gottlieb shares her stories of 4 different patients and their journey as well as her own.

She is funny, human and endearing.

It is a light read, and insightful.

[Helen Gordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

“It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included inc the editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. One possible objection to this proposal remains— that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms— to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstances”

“But feelings are more like weather systems— they blow in and they blow out.”

I liked this one. Perfect line between self help and non fiction

[Pauline · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read half of book but DNF .
i read enough chapters to know this book did not feel entirely authentic .
The author is very accomplished with multiple professional careers and obviously a high achiever to be writing a memoir in her 40’s as well as being a single parent. However get the feeling the books success is more important to her than her own personal growth through her dual therapist/patient practice.

Unprofessional to keep calling her X a sociopath . I thought something we lay people do.
After breaking up she finds online photos of her X breakfast he has posted online . Frivolous of him to
Take photos of his breakfast and then post and frivolous of her to respond to . Shows level of self absorption and emotional immaturity for both. Is this the content of their discontent ? Rather boring ….

When she dropped that she was a journalist before becoming a therapist my jaw dropped. That too ?
Okay she worked at NBC producing sitcoms . Is that journalism?

Oh and because she worked at network on E.R. with George Clooney on set she gets to attend real surgeries in real operating theatre because she befriends the real Dr that consults on set . Watching a craniotomy as a hobby .? How was access granted ? I would be furious if i was patient on table and a friend of surgeon was taking notes . Creepy !

My general feeling was this memoir was prematurely written . It’s lacking emotional depth and wisdom which is the entire point of this genre. Maybe the story should have ripened in her memory another decade before writing a book about.

[Brittany Richards · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommend. It’s really just a quick five minute journal for your thoughts every day with prompts focused on healing and self work.

[Emily Hillman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m giving this book four stars because it was well written and had an interesting flow for a person who is outside the professional field of psychology to explore that environment. For me personally, not my type of genre. I had a hard time getting through this book. Took me twice as long as I normally take to read a book. Not my style, so give it a rating of 3 stars.

[Raquel Soares · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very personal, intimate and interesting, a good read for anyone who is interested in mental health. It has also very moving moments, especially regarding Lori clients who brought me to tears, for me that was the highlight of the book. However, has someone who is studying to be a therapist, it ended up being a bit too introductory and repetitive, and I found myself skipping some info dump sections

[Lynne Cote · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to be a therapist, even for your friends, this book is worth a read!

[Barb Royal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well-written. Engaging. Amazing look inside the world of therapy.

[Qamar Mohamed · Rating 3 out of 5]

هذا الكتاب عبارة عن تمرين نفسي لك كي تتحدث أكثر مع نفسك عبر جلسات أسبوعية تدونها بنفسك

[Charles Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

unexpectedly interesting. a good book to read

[Deborah Ogren]

I found this very informative and helpful to read. It left room for you to grow.