Buy the F*cking Lilies: And Other Tools to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

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Little by little, I pulled the golden thread of gratitude out from the blanket of pain I usually wrapped myself in. 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. 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. Her plays have been performed in The New York International Fringe Festival and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and Forbes online. I originally bought it because I loved the title and I struggle with getting myself nice things because deep down, I kind of feel like I don't deserve them.

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 found the read to be thoroughly thought provoking and admire the self-reflection as part of the book. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Through simple, daily rituals, Tara transformed her mind, body and relationships, and shows how to: * fake gratitude until you actually feel gratitude * excavate your emotional wounds and heal them with kindness * identify your self-limiting beliefs, kick them to the curb, and start living a life you choose * silence your inner frenemy and shield yourself from self-criticism * carve out time each morning to start your day empowered, inspired, and ready to rule * create a life you truly, totally f*cking LOVE 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. 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? I loved to read about the personal life of very successful people and how they learned to manage the balance of their personal and professional life.

a white, abled, highly educated person who could afford the benefit of therapy in her twenties wants to let us know that if *she* “can be HAPPY.If that’s something you are looking for, it’s a decent read, better than many dry tomes of this type. Her plays have been performed in the New York International Fringe Festival and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker online.