This book was such an eye-opener for me. The author scatters some really helpful exercises throughout this book that I highly recommend doing if you read this book. I learned so much about myself, my trauma, and how to move forward with this book. There were so many helpful realizations and solid definitions that really forced me to confront some stuff I had been hiding away. If you have any sort of childhood trauma, definitely pick up this book - I honestly have not read such a helpful book in a long time.

This was good. Hard to read, and the exercises were harder but I think it's helpful

My counselor lent me this book to work through in conjunction with our sessions. While not everything in this book was applicable to me and my situation, there was so much that I took away from it. I tried to do most of the exercises throughout the book and will definitely be incorporating some of them into my everyday life. This is a really good book for learning how to lessen the inner critic so prevalent for those who experienced abuse or neglect and help replace it with self-compassion and self-encouragement.

Eh. Some of the exercises were too cringy/trite/cheesy for me to take seriously. I mean....recommending you to soak in a jacuzzi to help get rid of sexual abuse shame? Girl.......ok. If that floats your boat, neat. I understand that it’s a book and not a tailored therapy session, so things that typically frustrate me could help another. Also the author is a bit too repetitive when discussing the topic of shame. I guess this book would be more insightful and helpful to those who have never been in therapy or listened to a Brene Brown lecture. Meh. Not bad, would still recommend.

Ok, one last thing.....the poem at the end was laughably bad. The sentiment was nice but oof it sounded like it was written by middle schooler. Soz. Yay, compassion. Boo, shame.