![]() Group is the tale of how group therapy saved Tate, and Tate only. Christie Tate's debut memoir Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, though, stands out because it does not. Plenty of books - both self-help and memoir - straddle the same line. I can now report that therapy content, as we might call it, can fulfill both needs, at least fleetingly. I had never listened to Perel's show, but I had dipped into reproductive psychiatrist Alexandra Sacks' Gimlet podcast Motherhood Sessions and binge-watched Showtime's Couples Therapy - not because I wanted advice, but because I am nosy. It would also reassure me that I wasn't nearly as big a jerk as I feared. ![]() My friends promised that eavesdropping on Perel's clients would help me be less of a jerk. They are very different women - and yet they gave me the exact same advice: I needed to listen to Esther Perel's couples-therapy podcast Where Should We Begin. Stricken, I apologized, then called two close friends for help. ![]() ![]() I was taking out far too much stress on my boyfriend, forgetting that he, too, was frayed by months of social-distancing and fear. In a moment not too long ago, I realized that the coronavirus pandemic was turning me into a bad girlfriend. ![]() Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, by Christie Tate ![]()
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