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It's been a while since I did a review! I actually read this book quite a while ago and I've been meaning to do a review but the moment just didn't come until now. Anyway, off we go.
I learned about this book on the Daily Show, when the author, Brené Brown was interviewed about it. I downloaded I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power from Audible, and it can be found: here.
It's a non-fiction book about the impact of shame on people, and how to overcome feelings of shame in yourself. Brown explores what shame is, how it impacts people in a negative manner and whether there's any redeeming quality to shame, and various methods with which to deal with shame and prevent it from having a negative impact on your life.
I don't know if listening to the book improved it over reading it. Sometimes the experience of listening to the words being read to me made it more powerful, but there were aspects of it - statistics, lists and the like - that occasionally made the spoken word more difficult to follow. I think this is pretty much inevitable with non-fiction work of this type. I did find the reader to be very good, though I think it would have been a nice touch if it had been Brown herself, especially since the book is written largely from her perspective.
I found it a difficult book to listen to, but also extremely rewarding. Through the stories shared by Brown, of hundreds of people she's interviewed, I could recognize things in my own life which make me feel shame, and explore that feeling in a constructive way. It's incredible how insidious shame can be, and from reading the book, I see that while guilt and regret can be constructive, there's no positive aspect to feeling shame. Shame demoralizes and holds people back.
There were times when I cried listening to it, but overall I'm glad that I got myself through it. I do feel as though my life has been improved from the read.
This book comes highly recommended.
I learned about this book on the Daily Show, when the author, Brené Brown was interviewed about it. I downloaded I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power from Audible, and it can be found: here.
It's a non-fiction book about the impact of shame on people, and how to overcome feelings of shame in yourself. Brown explores what shame is, how it impacts people in a negative manner and whether there's any redeeming quality to shame, and various methods with which to deal with shame and prevent it from having a negative impact on your life.
I don't know if listening to the book improved it over reading it. Sometimes the experience of listening to the words being read to me made it more powerful, but there were aspects of it - statistics, lists and the like - that occasionally made the spoken word more difficult to follow. I think this is pretty much inevitable with non-fiction work of this type. I did find the reader to be very good, though I think it would have been a nice touch if it had been Brown herself, especially since the book is written largely from her perspective.
I found it a difficult book to listen to, but also extremely rewarding. Through the stories shared by Brown, of hundreds of people she's interviewed, I could recognize things in my own life which make me feel shame, and explore that feeling in a constructive way. It's incredible how insidious shame can be, and from reading the book, I see that while guilt and regret can be constructive, there's no positive aspect to feeling shame. Shame demoralizes and holds people back.
There were times when I cried listening to it, but overall I'm glad that I got myself through it. I do feel as though my life has been improved from the read.
This book comes highly recommended.
