I'll be honest, this is not a genre I typically love. I've struggled in the past not to find myself eye-rolling when reading through the pages of your traditional female-driven memoir/self-help/leadership book – so often, the lessons are vapid/surface-level, the stories laced with privilege... and there's also usually an inescapable feeling that the author wants to be the hero of their book (for the sake of having a book) rather than the hero being the reader they supposedly want to help.
But that simply didn't happen with this book.
The storytelling is honest and challenges you to think about the assumptions you make throughout your life about others and yourself. The lessons articulate with clarity abstract feelings I've struggled to label or define for most of my adult life. The ideas are presented in such a way where there's accountability without a hammer - she's honest and direct without making an assumption of what you need to hear most or what actually applies to your life.
Overall, it's honest and beautiful. It's gracious and, at times, heart-wrenching because you can feel her working through deep themes within her own life as she puts words to them in this book. It sticks with you. Although the book accomplishes quite well its goal of challenging you to rethink how you show up in your life, it also again is a clear reminder to be very careful how much you judge others or make assumptions about other people – either based on superficial "facts" or because you're projecting your own baggage onto others.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2022
AliceAnne’s life experience shared through this memoir reminds each of us that life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do or learn to make life happen. It reminded me not to be the victim of circumstances during a very difficult past few months. Instead I was reminded that life is can be messy and beautiful all at the same time. The biggest take away was re-identifying my core values and aligning all that I do to that. It’s been at least 15 years since I looked at that and a lot has changed in the that time. Thank you AliceAnne for the real, raw, vulnerability in sharing your story!
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