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Online Author Talk With Lori Gottlieb

"Maybe You Should Talk to Someone"

Examine the truths and fictions we tell ourselves at this online chat with therapist Lori Gottlieb, author of "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone." This book is a revealing portrait of what it means to be human and a disarmingly funny account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them. Adults. Register to get a link. A recording will also be available for later viewing.

Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch — and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable book, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone," Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training, her most significant credential is that she’s a card-carrying member of the human race. “I know what it’s like to be a person,” she writes, as a crisis causes her world to come crashing down.

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.

We invite you to join us as Gottlieb chats about exploring 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.

"Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them. Register now to start your journey! 

Adults. Register to receive a link for viewing this online event.

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," on CNN and NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 most watched of the year. Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com.

This event is part of DBRL's Online Author Series, supported by David Lile honorarium funds. A recording will also be available for later viewing on the author series site.

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