I'm Happy for You (Sort of...Not Really, by Kay Wills Wyma, is a self-help book about how we all let ourselves become that "Junior High Student", who is unsure and compares ourselves to others. Wyma focuses on the many ways that we berate ourselves for not having or being enough. I enjoyed the family stories (her children sometimes teach her), as well as case studies and commentary from others about their situations. I do think the book dragged a bit at the end and could have been condensed. Thank you to Netgalley for this free ebook in exchange for an honest review.

The cover drew me in, but this book doesn't quite fit the self-help or psychology genre. It also doesn't quite feel like a humorous mom-blog-style memoir all the way through. And then there is the religious content, which appears often but not at great doctrinal depth. So the book has elements of all three but doesn't really capture the best of any of those genres. By about 50 pages in, I was a bit tired of everything being processed through the "I" of the author and her family, only to have insets with testimony from other women in similar circumstances. Still felt pretty much the same.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital ARC.

I really wanted to be able to give "I'm Happy for You" a 5-star rating but unfortunately, it didn't grab me. This is not the author's fault. Sometimes, for whatever reason, a reader and book don't gel. In this case, it was the religious element that I couldn't connect with and I lost interest.

This is just what I needed to read! I am so happy to learn that feeling this way is 'normal' and now have learnt strategies that will help me feel happy for others rather than envious. A must read for anyone who tries to keep up with the Jones.