Good Morning, Monster

As seen on Good Morning Americas SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating. Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning AmericaGildiner is nothing short of masterfulas both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of peoples lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be. Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneIn this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiners presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with Good morning, Monster.Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. They seek Gildiners help to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering has been long buried.As in such recent classics as The Glass Castle and Educated, each patient embodies selfreflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiners account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. Good Morning, Monster offers an almost novelistic, behindthescenes look into the therapists office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.