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

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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. The most nutty thing were the unimaginably cruel voice mails her estranged mother would leave her after her parents separated and the mother took the younger sister, leaving Tara with her dad.

So, while it pained me, I didn’t need to waste any more time (this is a freaking LONG book and I was listening to it on 1. 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. 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.

It should include the word "re-parent" because that's what this book is and why it'll appeal to readers. The second half of the book I didn't connect with at all; no one is ever going to convince me to go on HIKES and I've been in a stable relationship since I was seventeen so those chapters just. In that world, the “individual” seems required to “win” against any wider social and cultural imperative.

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.I really wanted to like this one, but the more I read it, the more frustrated I found myself getting with it. If the focus is supposed to be "rituals to fix your life" I thought there was perhaps too much emphasis on describing the past. I'm sure Tara is a cool person with great things to say - I just wish she hadn't presented it to everyone as self care. The author probably had little to do with this next part, but the "swear words in the title" trend needs to end. The author gives some great recommendations of methods to get yourself out of your own head and into some habits that will help you in the long run.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. With humor and compassion Tara takes you through some rough times and gives the reader some short cuts so they don’t have to go the long way. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.That small, pleasurable thing that makes you feel like you are treating yourself – do not deprive yourself of this.