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Author Talk: Maybe You Should Talk To Someone with Lori Gottlieb

Virtual Event

2024-10-22 11:00:00 2024-10-22 12:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: Maybe You Should Talk To Someone with Lori Gottlieb Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch many are therapists. In her book, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and training, her most significant credential is that she’s a card-carrying member of the human race. Virtual Program -

Tuesday, October 22
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-22 11:00:00 2024-10-22 12:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: Maybe You Should Talk To Someone with Lori Gottlieb Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch many are therapists. In her book, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and training, her most significant credential is that she’s a card-carrying member of the human race. Virtual Program -

Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch many are therapists. In her book, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and training, her most significant credential is that she’s a card-carrying member of the human race.

Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. In her book, Lori explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives—a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys (even one from the waiting room)—she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb reveals our blind spots, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

About the Author: Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which has sold over two million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series starring Kristen Bell. In addition to her clinical practice, she co-hosts the popular “Dear Therapists” podcast produced by Katie Couric and writes The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” advice column. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR’s “Fresh Air” and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year. She is the creator of the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life and the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life. Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her on Instagram @lorigottlieb_author and X @LoriGottlieb1.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books, Poetry, & Writing |

TAGS: | Virtual Program | Author Talk |

Virtual Program


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Fri, Sep 27 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Sep 28 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Sep 29 7:00AM to 6:00PM

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