Stephanie’s Reviews > It's Not You, It's Everything: What Our Pain Reveals about the Anxious Pursuit of the Good Life > Status Update

“…it’s hard to get health insurance to cover the naturally occurring pain of living in a society where self-worth is constantly tethered to how much we produce and what the market believes that production is worth.”

“Metaemotion is what it feels like to rebrand our naturally occurring responses to the trickle-down pain of American life as less the responsibility of a system that has harmed us and more the result of our own failure to cope and perform under any condition.”