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Tate, Christie
A memoir by Christie Tate recounting her struggle with depression, loneliness, and disordered eating during law school, and how group therapy with a therapist and circle of strangers transformed her life. The narrative voice is deeply introspective and candid, exploring themes of belonging, self-worth, and emotional connection.
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What this book knows
Radical honesty inside a therapy circle teaches a compulsive achiever that she can want things, say so, and survive being known.
belonging
I could feel Dr. Rosen's hands cradling my head… They were etching themselves into my life. It thrilled me, made me want to bawl, and it scared me to death.
GHO-RC-049My heart soared… to the fourteen-by-fourteen room where they sat, where there was an empty chair my body usually fit, where they held me in their minds.
GHO-RC-036shame
Only then did I feel the crush of shame slamming through the buzz, the dress, the laughter. Only then did I let myself understand that they were laughing at me.
GHO-RC-090By fourth grade I'd been marinating in body hatred… the one thing holding me back on both fronts was the size of my body.
GHO-RC-026intimacy
When it was my turn to ask in real life, I sputtered like an old lawn mower. 'I want—do you think we could—would you be open to, maybe—leaving your apartment with me sometime?'
GHO-RC-095Having to look Clare in the eye and tell her I was with a man currently at his niece's ballet recital with his wife of nineteen years was a sickening jolt of reality.
GHO-RC-147Illuminates
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