A review by ninas_nook
Pocket Therapy: Mental Notes for Everyday Happiness, Confidence, and Calm by Sarah Crosby

5.0

I’ve always been interested in the Philosophy of why we do the things we do. I have been to therapy, I understand that many of the reasons we are the way we are are due to past experiences, pst trauma, and things we as human may not fully even understand.

This book is a wonderful pocket guide to discovering who we are, and what we can do to be our best selves.

I love that in addition to explaining what our feelings mean, how to be a good friend, how to recognize our triggers, how to set boundaries and reparent ourselves if necessary, we are also given instruction into things we can try to become acquainted with our deeper emotions.

In the section about reparenting ourselves if we’ve experienced childhood trauma you’re instructed to look at a childhood picture but really look at it. How were you feeling? What do you feel now? I found exercises like this extremely helpful and insightful to dealing with my own self needs and learning what I need as a fellow hurt human.

This is a beautiful book about self discovery and learning how to care for ourselves and each other, and I definitely recommend it and love that it is split into various sections so we can learn what we can as we need it.

I definitely recommend this and can see myself gifting it to anyone, as we all have struggles and need this reminder of how to love ourselves.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.