Good Morning, Monster

A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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Pub Date 22 Sep 2020 | Archive Date 31 Oct 2020

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As seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!

"We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating."
Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America

"Gildiner is nothing short of masterful
as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner’s presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with "Good morning, Monster."

Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. They seek Gildiner's help to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering has been long buried.

As in such recent classics as The Glass Castle and Educated, each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. Good Morning Monster offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.

As seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!

"We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating."
Glennon...


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This is going to be a KNOCKOUT book for those that enjoyed Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. It differed in that there wasn’t much (if any) focus on the therapist herself, instead, each part of the book followed a different patient and their story from beginning to end. Patients experienced anxiety, fear, trauma, sexual abuse, divorce, physical abuse, etc etc and I felt myself rooting for each one as their horrific stories unfolded in their therapist’s office. I was so wrapped up in each patient’s story that they all could’ve been their own book. I really enjoyed this, I think it is so unique in the world of therapy/memoir/self-help, and I think it is going to be wildly popular upon its release.

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