How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Mar 31, 2026
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Warm, insightful, and witty, the first book of advice from New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson—aka the Bloggess
Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She’s a celebrated author but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She’s an award-winning humorist but struggles with treatment-resistant depression. The questions people most often ask her are, “How do you do it? How do you keep going even when it feels impossible? How do you keep creating?” This book is her answer.
In How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay, Jenny shares more than one hundred humorous, heartfelt, and genuine tools and tricks that she relies on to keep her going even when her brain isn’t working properly due to depression, anxiety, and ADHD. She also offers tips to stay passionate and focused on creative endeavors, especially when everything around you is saying to give up.
With chapters like “Wash Your Brain More Than You Wash Your Bra” (sleep, you beautiful human), “Working on Easy Mode Is Still Working” (asking for accommodations is okay!), “Celebrate Good Times, Come On!” (make it a habit to celebrate the good things), and many more, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay is a balm and companion, reminding us all that we are not alone. It’s for anyone who struggles with self-doubt, guilt, motivation, and mental blocks and wants to rekindle their passion for creating. Funny, simple, empathetic, and full of hope, it will encourage you not to just survive but to find and curate joy in the face of difficult times.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Jenny Lawson (aka the Bloggess) has always felt like the quirky BFF who never runs out of hilarious but effective advice, and that’s especially true in this funny book. In short, highly digestible chapters, she takes on the issues that give many of us the most anxiety, like impostor syndrome, self-doubt, and dealing with panic attacks. The underlying theme of her essays is that we aren’t alone, and she proves her point through hilarious stories about well-known figures who have dealt with their own highly visible failures. Like the 17th-century nobleman who exiled himself for seven years after passing gas in front of the queen. And the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, who used cocaine to get through his own presentations. Lawson even vulnerably shares her own personal struggles dealing with anxiety. How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay is the antidote to doomscrolling—and a guidebook for getting through the stresses of modern life.
