Jennifer Louden's latest book reads like a deep-into-the-night conversation with a best friend. Introspective and real, Jennifer offers highs and lows in her own life to help us to find the 'why' in our 'bother.' This is not one more mainstream "Oh, Just be happy already and then you'll be happy" sort of book; it's one that asks us to look deeper inside to find the 'why,' our own personal 'why,' beneath the 'what.' This is not a complicated book, but the concepts will stay with you, and keep you pondering and searching for your own 'bother.'

I love Jennifer Louden's books. The Woman's Comfort book was a favorite of mine during a time that made the concepts particularly applicable. As I began to read this book, I found myself searching for the "tips and tricks"....give me a checklist! When that didn't surface, I eased into the ideas in this book. They are deep. They caused me to think, to highlight, and to take notes for pondering. I ended up needing this book at THIS point in my life. It was particularly poignant and I will buy myself and my friends copies when it is released. #WhyBother #NetGalley

gah, this spoke to my soul. i saw the cover and title and looked around like, is this a trap? an intervention? this is exactly how i am feeling right now. while the book didn't magically make me stop thinking that way, it did help and offer lots of ideas and new ways to think about things... hopefully i'll get out of this 'why bother' phase.

This is not your average self-help book. While other books in this genre float around midstream, this one soars above the others and lifts us with it. The author doesn't tell us how to bother, or why to bother, or how to live a life that's full of joy and meaning. Instead, she offers examples from her own times of not-bothering and shares how she found doorways and paths out of such overwhelm, grief, transition, loss, and depression.

I know that anyone who is going through anything difficult will resonate with the bright wisdom and teaching that is found here.

Especially helpful to me on my own journey are the thought-provoking, soul-stirring questions that are at the end of each chapter. Again, we are not told what to do or how to do it. We are simply invited to bring the questions into our own hearts and lives, so that we can find our own answers to the original "why bother" question. This is the most powerful teaching!

My copy is already underlined and highlighted and you can be sure that I will be reading this again and again as my life unfolds. I will also be gifting it to others.

Thanks to Netgally, the author and publisher for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I found this to be a very refreshing book in the self-help/personal development genre. I loved her way of writing and I found it to be both inspiring and motivating. I think this book would be helpful to those that suffer from depression as a way of seeing a constructive way out of the habits and thought patterns that lead you to depression. A thought-provoking read!