Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies
And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
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4.6 • 16 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a former vice president at Comedy Central who was called “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele
“You’re going to want Tara Schuster to become your new best friend.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
“Compelling, persuasive, and useful no matter where you are in your life.”—Chelsea Handler, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life Will Be the Death of Me
By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depression, anxiety, and shame, owing in large part to her minimally parented upbringing. She realized she’d hit rock bottom when she drunk-dialed her therapist pleading for help.
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies is the story of Tara’s path to re-parenting herself and becoming a “ninja of self-love.” Through simple, daily rituals, Tara transformed her mind, body, and relationships, and shows how to
• fake gratitude until you actually feel gratitude
• excavate your emotional wounds and heal them with kindness
• identify your self-limiting beliefs, kick them to the curb, and start living a life you choose
• silence your inner frenemy and shield yourself from self-criticism
• carve out time each morning to start your day empowered, inspired, and ready to rule
• create a life you truly, totally f*cking LOVE
This is the book Tara wished someone had given her and it is the book many of us desperately need: a candid, hysterical, addictively readable, practical guide to growing up (no matter where you are in life) and learning to love yourself in a non-throw-up-in-your-mouth-it’s-so-cheesy way.
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In this fun, debut memoir-cum-guide to "reparenting" oneself and living one's best life, Schuster, a Comedy Central executive, candidly shares her worst experiences and what's she learned from them. She writes of how she went from self-medicating and self-sabotaging to reclaiming her life by developing healthy rituals such as journaling, writing thank you notes, using vision boards, and cultivating gratefulness. She also divulges sage advice she's been given from mentors and friends, including Jon Stewart and Anjelica Huston. Other advice includes tips on how to build a "lady harem" (or dream team of supportive friends), make peace with frenemies, keep one's home dinner-party-ready, and how to best manage money. For the final chapters, she shares what she's learned in her relationships with men and members of her family. Schuster is jovial throughout and relies on the authority of her experience as she surveys but never overly lauds her impressive career. Filled with gems of wisdom, Schuster's chronicle of her ups and downs is a winner.
Customer Reviews
Helpful to analyze and realize your worth & wants & goals
Liked the real life achievable ideas & goals & actionable ideas and coaching.
Didn’t like too much detail about awful things that happened to the author. I think her non-parenting parents hurt her badly, but reading this at a down time for me made we want to skim those parts to avoid feeling badly for her.
Beyond words
This book is more than a book, it’s a teacher, a parent, a best friend…. T$ you are the realest.