The book was a great read and learned a lot from it and was able to take the advice to apply to my own personal life. It was selected byCosmopolitan, Real Simple,Goop, PublishersWeekly,and many more as one of the best booksof the yearon mental health and self-care. In Glow in the F*cking Dark, Tara Schuster guides us along as she finds her way through her own pain and offers honest, often funny, and actionable advice for taking charge of your emotional health.

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For some of us, giving ourselves pep talks is not our natural state, but Tara reminds us: If your friend were in a similar situation, would you talk to her that way? It certainly didn't mean that I had worked out all of my issues from childhood and now everything was “perf, thanks, byeee .As a kid, the books of David Sedaris made me feel like I was not alone in having a "different" family and my prayer-hope-please-oh-please-wish is that my book gives you some comfort. Her plays have been performed in the New York International Fringe Festival and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker online. I thought that was life: a series of problems to be tackled until you have lived another day, only to face a new disaster. on any more advice from someone “who’s been there” (not where I’ve been) that amounted to the same (superficial?

Tara Schuster

As previously noted, you can't trust someone who idolizes Coco Chanel, but the biggest problem here is that this is self-help from a person who 1. Tara Schuster is a phenomenal storyteller—a woman who insisted on reclaiming her agency, to shine in bleak circumstances. It stopped being cute about halfway in and started feeling like a desperate way to appear hip and cool and connect to the younger generation. Part of it could be defined as a memoir as she takes you through some of her own experiences and, most importantly, what she learned from them. I found it to be a kind of self help book with lots of ideas of things to try for changing the negative voice in your head, and just getting more positive about your life.I really wanted to like this one, but the more I read it, the more frustrated I found myself getting with it. This book also emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and self-care, which I also think are really important. And I actually agree with a lot of the things the author says, like how when you have depression and anxiety but you also come from a background of privilege, you might actually feel a lot of guilt over being so depressed and anxious because you don't feel like you "deserve" to.

You cannot take care of others, your family or coworkers, no matter, unless you are already taking care of yourself. Ruthlessly authentic and bitingly hilarious, Taratakes us on a roller coaster of self-discovery, revealing that we are allthe student and the teacher on our own pathsto growthandhealing. It’s about self-love, showing up, and being present in the life you’re in, and I’m so glad to have gotten a copy. She doesn’t need that promotion to afford them or a husband to do it for her, respecting and loving yourself is too important not to splurge sometimes just because the flowers are too pretty to pass up.She does come off as very privileged and while I love that she was up front with that, I couldn't really relate to her life, and the pop psychology/girl, I got you vibe of this book kind of made this feel like a secular version of GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE, which I really can't stand. And it was in these journals that Schuster discovered where her hurts originated and began to imagine what future actions might heal those wounds. I chose this book for an annual challenge - the May selection was a book with a flower in the title.