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About the Book
“Lori Gottlieb is one of the wisest, most compassionate therapists I know, and this book will help you understand yourself—and the people in your life—in a whole new way.” —Mel Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory
From the renowned psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone—which has sold over three million copies and been translated into more than forty languages—comes a powerful exploration of the questions that shape our lives.
How do I let go of the past?
How do I reveal a truth that could change everything?
How well can I really know the people I love?
Why is there a gap between what I want and what I do?
As a psychotherapist, Lori Gottlieb spends her days working with people in their most intimate moments—moments of grief, joy, confusion, longing, heartbreak, hope. Some of the struggles she sees are universal and timeless, while some belong distinctly to the modern world we inhabit, influenced by shifting norms and the accelerating pace of change. In her beloved columns—first at The Cut and The Atlantic, and now at The New York Times—Gottlieb brings readers around the world her signature insight and understanding, applying her disarmingly perceptive therapeutic lens to the private dilemmas we rarely share but need to untangle. And beneath it all—the decades of patients and thousands of letters—lies the same essential question: How do I make sense of my life and the people in it?
I’m So Glad You Asked: A Therapist on the Questions That Shape Our Lives offers readers a sweeping tour of our emotional landscape, uncovering what Gottlieb calls the “story beneath the question”—the hidden patterns, assumptions, and fears that often lie outside our awareness. Moving from the families that formed us to the friendships we struggle to sustain; from love, betrayal, and unfinished business to money, aging, grief, and the selves we are still learning to accept, Gottlieb shows how one person’s dilemma can uncover something strikingly recognizable in our own.
Again and again, she shifts the frame, challenges the stories we tell ourselves, and reveals possibilities we couldn’t see from inside our own lives. By turns intimate, provocative, moving, and unexpectedly funny, I’m So Glad You Asked transforms the seemingly ordinary dilemmas of everyday experience into profound revelations that can change how we understand ourselves and those around us.
No one who reads this eye-opening book will see their relationships, their choices—or themselves—the same way again.
From the renowned psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone—which has sold over three million copies and been translated into more than forty languages—comes a powerful exploration of the questions that shape our lives.
How do I let go of the past?
How do I reveal a truth that could change everything?
How well can I really know the people I love?
Why is there a gap between what I want and what I do?
As a psychotherapist, Lori Gottlieb spends her days working with people in their most intimate moments—moments of grief, joy, confusion, longing, heartbreak, hope. Some of the struggles she sees are universal and timeless, while some belong distinctly to the modern world we inhabit, influenced by shifting norms and the accelerating pace of change. In her beloved columns—first at The Cut and The Atlantic, and now at The New York Times—Gottlieb brings readers around the world her signature insight and understanding, applying her disarmingly perceptive therapeutic lens to the private dilemmas we rarely share but need to untangle. And beneath it all—the decades of patients and thousands of letters—lies the same essential question: How do I make sense of my life and the people in it?
I’m So Glad You Asked: A Therapist on the Questions That Shape Our Lives offers readers a sweeping tour of our emotional landscape, uncovering what Gottlieb calls the “story beneath the question”—the hidden patterns, assumptions, and fears that often lie outside our awareness. Moving from the families that formed us to the friendships we struggle to sustain; from love, betrayal, and unfinished business to money, aging, grief, and the selves we are still learning to accept, Gottlieb shows how one person’s dilemma can uncover something strikingly recognizable in our own.
Again and again, she shifts the frame, challenges the stories we tell ourselves, and reveals possibilities we couldn’t see from inside our own lives. By turns intimate, provocative, moving, and unexpectedly funny, I’m So Glad You Asked transforms the seemingly ordinary dilemmas of everyday experience into profound revelations that can change how we understand ourselves and those around us.
No one who reads this eye-opening book will see their relationships, their choices—or themselves—the same way again.
About the Author
© Rohina Hoffman
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, and leading voice on relationships and human behavior. Her book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone has sold more than three million copies and has been translated into more than forty languages. She writes the popular “Ask the Therapist” column for The New York Times and cohosted the Dear Therapists podcast. A prominent media expert, she has appeared on Oprah, the Today show, The Daily Show, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, CNN, NBC’s Meet the Press, and NPR’s Fresh Air, as well as leading podcasts hosted by Mel Robbins, Jay Shetty, Rich Roll, and Dax Shepard. Her TED Talk, with more than eight million views, was among the ten most-watched of the year. She maintains a clinical psychotherapy practice and advises leaders and organizations on mental health, leadership, and building healthier cultures. Her new book is I'm So Glad You Asked.
Product Details
- Publisher: Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster (May 18, 2027)
- Length: 464 pages
- ISBN13: 9781982161033
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Raves and Reviews
“Lori Gottlieb is one of the wisest, most compassionate therapists I know, and this book will help you understand yourself—and the people in your life—in a whole new way.” —Mel Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory
“I’m So Glad You Asked doesn’t just give you better answers, it inspires you to ask better questions about yourself, your relationships, and your life.” —Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of the podcast On Purpose
“Lori Gottlieb takes up the questions that burn through us yet we dare not ask—about all manners of being human. She listens carefully to the ways our problems in living present themselves—in the form of a partner, parent, sibling, friend—guiding us beneath the surface to what actually matters. Gottlieb teaches us how to interrupt the repetitive relational grooves people get caught in and translate uncomfortable feelings into truths, so we can take action and live a fuller life. You will not want to put this book down.” —Orna Guralnik, PsyD, author of Couples and therapist on Showtime’s Couples Therapy
"I’m So Glad You Asked offers a window into every corner of the human condition—sibling feuds, buried secrets, extramarital affairs, unspeakable grief. What I most admire is that she resists telling people what to do and instead helps them see what they’ve been missing.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret and Drive
“Lori Gottlieb reminds us that it is in the reveal of hidden dynamics and the embrace of curiosity that we find a way towards more intimacy, stronger relationships, and deeper bonds.” —Esther Perel, psychotherapist, author and host of the podcast Where Should We Begin
“I’m So Glad You Asked is a resource you will be using for years to come.” —Arthur C. Brooks, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Meaning of Your Life
“What world of wisdom these pages contain! Lori Gottlieb has the rarest gift: she looks straight into the messy, tender, embarrassing heart of being human without ever making us feel judged for what she finds there. I’m So Glad You Asked is wise, funny, compassionate, and wonderfully useful—a book that feels like sitting down with the smartest friend you have, telling her everything, and hearing her say, ‘Oh, honey. Of course you feel that way. Who wouldn’t? Now let’s talk about this.’” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
“A beautifully constructed journey through the human condition, both gripping and illuminating. I recognized a piece of myself in each letter and response—this is Gottlieb's gift, making the personal feel universal.” —Belle Burden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Strangers
“I love Lori Gottlieb’s advice, and the quality of her writing. I’m So Glad You Asked is wise, deep, insightful and often funny. I only wish she lived next door, or, actually, down the hall.” —Anne Lamott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Somehow: Thoughts on Love
“Wise, compassionate, and deeply human, Gottlieb’s book offers readers a new way to understand the universal truths hiding behind our most private struggles. An essential guidebook for tackling all hard times that you and the people you love might face down the line.” —Dr. Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of the podcast The Happiness Lab
“There is a particular loneliness in believing you are the only one who struggles. The only one who resents her mother, who can't forgive herself, who is grieving a life she didn't get. Lori Gottlieb has spent years reading that loneliness in other people's questions, and this book is her answer to it: clear-eyed, funny, impossibly perceptive and packed with warm, dead-on answers to our modern loneliness.” —Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
“Lori Gottlieb brings a therapist's ear and a writer's eye to the questions that shape our lives, finding the universal inside each person's dilemma with humor, wit, and warmth. This book the very best of what we can offer each other.” —Amir Levine, MD, and bestselling co-author of Attached
“Stop everything and crack this book open. All the answers are here, in each case the specifics leading us back to the universal. Let’s all read and discuss.” —Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me More and host of the podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders
“Lori Gottlieb has given us much to think about, from managing life dilemmas to having the conversations we've been avoiding with the people we love. With thoughtfulness, she shares gentle but firm responses to the questions that keep us stuck. I'm So Glad You Asked is a book we'll return to and share with others.” —Nedra Glover Tawwab, psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace
“With well-placed humor and disarming reversals of common assumptions—and filled with practical suggestions—Lori Gottlieb’s I’m So Glad You Asked offers wide-ranging wisdom on how to live better and connect more fully.” —Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Aware
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