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Virtual Author Talk with Lori Gottlieb

Location: Virtual

2024-10-22 14:00:00 2024-10-22 15:00:00 America/New_York Virtual Author Talk with Lori Gottlieb We invite you to join us as Lori Gottlieb shares her wisdom on examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves to help us breakthrough what is holding us back. Bridgeport Public Library -

Tuesday, October 22
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-22 14:00:00 2024-10-22 15:00:00 America/New_York Virtual Author Talk with Lori Gottlieb We invite you to join us as Lori Gottlieb shares her wisdom on examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves to help us breakthrough what is holding us back. Bridgeport Public Library -

We invite you to join us as Lori Gottlieb shares her wisdom on examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves to help us breakthrough what is holding us back.

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. In her book, Lori explores 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.

We invite you to join us as Gottlieb shares her wisdom on examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves to help us breakthrough what is holding us back and getting in the way of living the life we desire. Register now to start your journey! 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Miscellaneous |

Bridgeport Public Library

library@bridgeportwv.gov
Phone: 304-842-8248

Hours

Bridgeport Public Library

Mon, Oct 07 11:00AM to 7:00PM
Tue, Oct 08 11:00AM to 7:00PM
Wed, Oct 09 11:00AM to 7:00PM
Thu, Oct 10 11:00AM to 7:00PM
Fri, Oct 11 11:00AM to 7:00PM
Sat, Oct 12 11:00AM to 2:00PM
Sun, Oct 13 Closed

Address
1200 Johnson Avenue
Bridgeport, WV 26330
Tel: 304-842-8248

About the branch

The Bridgeport Public Library is located in Bridgeport, WV. The City of Bridgeport began providing financial support for the library in the mid-1970s. The library was then located on the top floor of the Benedum Civic Center on Main Street. In 1994 the citizens and businesses of Bridgeport raised over 1.3 million dollars to purchase and renovate the Allstate Insurance building on Johnson Avenue. It then became the Bridgeport Public Library. The library offers a variety of services and resources including books, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, music, magazines, online databases, and more!

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