With humor and compassion Tara takes you through some rough times and gives the reader some short cuts so they don’t have to go the long way. The second half of the book I didn't connect with at all; no one is ever going to convince me to go on HIKES and I've been in a stable relationship since I was seventeen so those chapters just.

Tara Schuster

No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depression, anxiety, and shame, owing in large part to her minimally parented upbringing. As previously noted, you can't trust someone who idolizes Coco Chanel, but the biggest problem here is that this is self-help from a person who 1. But here’s what endlessly distracted me from what good stuff is in here: Tara seems to think she’s writing in the language of Tweets or something. I don't know how you could live for a year in a house with gynecological equipment rotting in your front yard and not turn that into a hilarious anecdote? Glow in the F*cking Darkproves thatTara Schuster is a modern-day guru for people who really hate gurus.That small, pleasurable thing that makes you feel like you are treating yourself – do not deprive yourself of this. It’s about self-love, showing up, and being present in the life you’re in, and I’m so glad to have gotten a copy. I’m guessing she took a lot of this from her own journals, and in my journaling, I also use shorthand because ideally, I’m the only one who is ever going to read those pages. Little by little, I pulled the golden thread of gratitude out from the blanket of pain I usually wrapped myself in. I loved to read about the personal life of very successful people and how they learned to manage the balance of their personal and professional life.

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Yet: I really did find Tara Schuster to be likeable and relatable, and even if she seemed to have gotten most of her best ideas from other sources (which she notes), I can still see the value in this book for the right reader.

She does come off as very privileged and while I love that she was up front with that, I couldn't really relate to her life, and the pop psychology/girl, I got you vibe of this book kind of made this feel like a secular version of GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE, which I really can't stand.

It should include the word "re-parent" because that's what this book is and why it'll appeal to readers. I found it to be a kind of self help book with lots of ideas of things to try for changing the negative voice in your head, and just getting more positive about your life. In Glow in the F*cking Dark, Tara Schuster guides us along as she finds her way through her own pain and offers honest, often funny, and actionable advice for taking charge of your emotional health. Ruthlessly authentic and bitingly hilarious, Taratakes us on a roller coaster of self-discovery, revealing that we are allthe student and the teacher on our own pathsto growthandhealing.

a white, abled, highly educated person who could afford the benefit of therapy in her twenties wants to let us know that if *she* “can be HAPPY. With humor and a great deal of herself laid bare, Tara shows the reader where she was in her life when she realized it wasn’t working for her. Personally, she lost me when she started talking about how much she loved journaling and the merits of positive psychology. The author probably had little to do with this next part, but the "swear words in the title" trend needs to end. It’s always helpful to have a reminder to stop the negative thoughts about yourself—like that you’re a failure because you don’t have a boyfriend/the job you want/you aren’t working out or eating well enough and so on.

What I admire about this book over other self-help bestsellers I won’t name is that Schuster is not ignoring the validity of mental illness as an obstacle.She is ready in every chapter to admit how she ended up there, inexcusably hungover and covered in some of her vomit, and equally ready to say “hey I know I was a mess, but I want to help you like my friends helped me, so have you tried ___?