Welcome to Litsy!

Progress Update:

I JUST finished part 2 (seconds before this post). Maycember has hit hard heat so I‘ve been finding little times to read but not nearly enough!

Random thought: new interns would benefit greatly from this book!

1. I have a long list of TBR books but usually when I finish one book, it will spark an interest in a similar book or something from that author, etc.
2. I don‘t take the bus/train but I listen in the car.
3. My kids and work. 😁
4. Don‘t really have one
5. @BookBumming @tealwish @Vansa @Dragon @ItsAngel

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs thanks for the tag @TheRiehlDeal @Coleen_Nieto

Credits in, credits out. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️🎧 #HighlySuggestible

I‘m hearing great things about this book. I‘m excited to get into it! 🤓

I literally laughed AND cried listening to this audiobook (and that's almost never true of me). I came to know and love Lori's patients (even the asshole), despise her ex, and admire her therapist. Lori's story was both therapeutic and made me think: maybe we should all talk to someone? Interspersed with therapy techniques and psychological theories, this book revealed its characters' humanity in a very personal way. I highly recommend this.

Beginning this for my 2nd book club read while Flower ensures her hoomans are safely playing outside.

#MIPP #MIPPbookclub #therapistbooks #catsoflitsy

This was fantastic on so many levels. And, hey, it was about therapy and It didn‘t even feel like being at work... and most books about therapy do. I highly recommend this for anyone who isn‘t scared of the #stigma (s) surrounding mental health... and even if you are, just listen to it privately! 😘

#Audible

Happy #MaytheFourthBeWithYou/#Caturday from my two furry book buddies, Han Solo and Chewbacca! The vet's office sure loves this duo's names when we bring them in! 😸😻

#StarWarsDay

Maybe it‘s because this is my field and training, but I found this book so human and real and bittersweet and I couldn‘t put it down.

I absolutely loved this memoir of a therapist in need of her own therapist. The memoir is filled with stories about her sessions with clients as well as her own stories of her experiencing the other side of therapy. I became invested in her clients lives and cried for their pain. I was very moved by the reality that life is painful and beautiful all at the same time and we are all struggling to live our best lives.

I soooooo love it when authors see a tweet about their book on Twitter and take the time to respond! It's like celebrity sighting! 🤩 Somehow my fam just doesn't understand. So I thought I'd share with my fellow Littens. 😂

Thanks, @hermyknee, for this great book recommendation! I've been listening to it on Audible too. Memoirs go especially well with audiobooks, I think. 💗

Reading at the hair salon while my daughter's getting her pixie fixed up.
Enjoying this book! Lots of good tips for a therapist-to-be. 🙂

1. I always have so many books going at once. I read to suit my fancy. Nothing Good Can Come of this by Kristen Coulter is one of the many and it‘s great! 🍷

2. I‘m listening to the tagged book right now 🎧

3. Wolfhunt River and Boy Swallows Universe are both at the top of my TBR, along with the comic, Faith. 🦸🏼‍♀️

#weekendreads
@rachelsbrittain

🌹are red,
🦋 are blue,
Sure hope to win,
Though Spring's almost through!

Oooh, cool book loot! Count me in for your #SpringHasSprungGiveaway, @Kayla.Adriena! 😀👍

#FriYayIntro @howjessreads

📕 Buffy the Vampire Slayer @BarbaraTheBibliophage

📘 Travel! Tokoyo trip...Visit Paris again... (need more days in the Louvre) @Melissa_J

📗 Litsy and other bookish friends @emtobiasz

📙 Crazy Rich Asians series @youneverarrived

📓 What book world would you happily live in for a year (or more)?

I loved this book from beginning to end. I‘m so glad I downloaded it on #audible. Eye-opening and at times heart wrenching, but ultimately a story of healing - I definitely recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Well lucky me, I was invited to participate in Home Chef‘s Recipe Tasting Society! So, my #audiocooking this evening was Salmon Bruschetta. I guess I used the wrong pan for the salmon because it fell to pieces while I was cooking it. I decided to make a piece of toast and turn it into a more traditional bruschetta (with salmon) and it worked out pretty well for me 😁

Also, the tagged book is fascinating.

#homechef #audiobook #audiocook #audible

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable.
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But what are we so afraid of? It‘s not as if we‘re going to peer in those darker corners, flip on the light, and find a bunch of cockroaches. Fireflies love the dark, too. There is beauty in those places, but we have to look in there to see it.

Had three #audible credits and downloaded this one! Has anyone read it?

Costco temptation!!

First five star read of the year for me. It was thought provoking for my own professional reasons, made me contemplate my own therapist-patient relationship, as well as making me both snort with laughter and cry ugly tears.

I adored this genre-bending book. Part memoir; part self-help; part peeping Tom (I mean who wouldn‘t want to be a fly on the wall for someone else‘s therapy?).

One of the best books I‘ve picked up all year.

#netgalley

Lori Gottlieb is a therapist immersed in the lives of her clients (a mean TV big shot, a dying newlywed, a suicidal septuagenarian, and a 20-ish train wreck), when a crisis lands her back on the couch herself. You will fall in love with these clients and with therapy itself. This is a powerful, moving, funny exploration of therapy from both sides of therapy, and a fiercely felt reminder that we‘re all human and we do the work of growing together.