The book offers a heartfelt message to sons, emphasizing their importance and value through engaging rhymes and vibrant illustrations. It aims to foster self-love and self-esteem in young boys, creating a relatable experience with its colorful imagery and shapes. This journey encourages children to recognize their worth and feel seen in a supportive and artistic environment.
This heartfelt book serves as a reminder to daughters of their worth and importance, emphasizing themes of love and self-esteem. Through engaging rhymes and vibrant illustrations, it encourages young girls to embrace self-love and recognize their value. The artistic imagery is designed to resonate with all readers, allowing them to see themselves reflected in the pages, making it a nurturing and empowering experience for children.
This is not a story about breakdown and recovery. This is a story about the day-to-day reality of living with depression and mental illness. When Michelle Thomas suffered her first major depressive episode in 2013, she read and watched and listened to everything she could get her immaculately-manicured hands on in an effort to fix herself. God, it was tedious. Painfully earnest, bone-dry material, that read more like messages of condolence than support. Frankly, it was depressing, which is the last thing she needed. Now, this is her riposte. My Shit Therapist is an honest account of living with mental illness, which mimics the frank, honest and - dare we say - funny interactions Michelle has had with her friends and followers about madness, medication, and making the most of a misbehaving brain