7 Best memoir books like Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate

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Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

Similar categories in Catherine Gildiner's Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Peace Adzo Medie's His Only Wife book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Similar categories in María Amparo Escandón's L.A. Weather book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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Similar categories in Ella Berman's Before We Were Innocent book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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Similar categories in Austin Channing Brown's I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"I am not a priest for the white soul."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Similar categories in Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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Similar categories in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's The Last Story of Mina Lee book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

Similar categories in Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"If you can't say no in relationships, then you can't be intimate"

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I recognized the familiar feeling of warmth and safety that settled after the rush of emotional risk."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I released a secret, not caring who in my family. might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

Similar categories in Amanda Eyre Ward's The Jetsetters book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood."

-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

"Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood …"

-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

Similar categories in Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorro…"

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Similar categories in K.J. Dell'Antonia's The Chicken Sisters book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"The next morning, when she bent to buckle Ryder into the taxi to go to the airport, he was clutching the chicken tightly to his chest, looking so much like his father that it made Mae catch her breat…"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

"The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they rea…"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

Similar categories in Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"This is how you get unstuck. You reach."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"You get to define the terms of your life."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"Be fearless enough to let love transform you."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over"

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Similar categories in Cesca Major's Maybe Next Time book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's Everything Inside book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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