Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
#Memoir
Inner Life & Growth
Why I recommend it
This is funny, tender, and unusually honest about the humanity on both sides of therapy. Gottlieb makes change feel less like expert correction and more like a relationship with truth, grief, and choice.
What stayed with me
The helper is also a person with blind spots, needs, and unfinished work. That feels important in coaching and leadership, where authority can make it tempting to forget our own participation in the room.
Who it’s useful for
Readers curious about therapy, coaches and helpers, and anyone in the middle of a life story that no longer quite works.
A tension or limitation
The narrative shape can make insight appear cleaner than lived change. Understanding a pattern is meaningful, but practicing another way often takes much longer.