As a current VP at Comedy Central, I think I would have been much more interested in a job-related book from her - one that explains her career steps in-depth, because I feel like that sort of information would have been much more valuable, and I probably would have taken that more seriously. If that’s something you are looking for, it’s a decent read, better than many dry tomes of this type. Personally, she lost me when she started talking about how much she loved journaling and the merits of positive psychology. Little by little, I pulled the golden thread of gratitude out from the blanket of pain I usually wrapped myself in. I have a very toxic relationship with journaling and no longer do that, and I don't really like positive psychology because I feel like it's been co-opted in the social media sphere by people who practice toxic positivity.

This is the book Tara wished someone had given her and it is the book many of us desperately need: a candid, hysterical, addictively readable, practical guide to growing up (no matter where you are in life) and learning to love yourself in a non-throw-up-in-your-mouth-it's-so-cheesy way. I chose this book for an annual challenge - the May selection was a book with a flower in the title. 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? on any more advice from someone “who’s been there” (not where I’ve been) that amounted to the same (superficial?All you're doing by going for the shock factor of cursing in the title is guaranteeing your book won't be reviewed anywhere because they can't say or print the title.

So, even though I’ve had ups and downs with my own mom, it made me appreciate that we do have a good, if not always easy, relationship. Like, maybe she mentioned it so often as a contrast to how much "better" she is now, but it started to feel more like she wanted to prove how cool she was? Part self help and part memoir, I consider this to be a self improvement book for “old millennials”.Tara wrote a very honest and insightful book about coming from difficult beginnings and realizing that she didn’t have the knowledge or skills she needed in life so she set out to teach them to herself and learn how to be a functioning successful adult and develop the skill sets she needed. 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. So much so that any personal “improvements” really are — at the end of the day — self interested, fragile and (I strongly suspect) superficial. This is the audiobook Tara wished someone had given her and it is the audiobook many of us desperately need: a candid, hysterical, addictively readable, practical guide to growing up (no matter where you are in life) and learning to love yourself in a non-throw-up-in-your-mouth-it's-so-cheesy way.