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Glow in the F*cking Dark

Simple practices to heal your soul, from someone who learned the hard way
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Glow in the F*cking Dark by Tara Schuster is a candid and empowering guide to healing deep emotional wounds and reclaiming one’s inner light. After years of struggling with childhood trauma and self-doubt, Tara faces a personal crisis that forces her to slow down and confront her pain head-on. Through practical, achievable steps, she shows readers how to recognise trauma responses, understand the root of anxiety, repair their relationship with their bodies, and find purpose beyond themselves. This book offers a compassionate roadmap out of emotional suffering towards a spectacular, self-directed life.
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This book is ideal for readers seeking personal growth and emotional healing, particularly those who feel stuck or dimmed by life’s hardships and are ready to regain control and brightness. It resonates with individuals interested in self-help that combines honesty, practical advice, and a bold, encouraging voice.

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The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons for healing your past and owning your future so you can radiate strength, bravery, and joy when life gets dark.

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Tara Schuster thought she was on stable ground. For years, she'd worked like hell to repair the emotional wounds inflicted during what she refers to as her "mess-wreck disaster" of a childhood. She'd brought radical healing rituals and self-love into her life. On most days, she was a happy, stable adult.

But then she lost her job, the one on which she had staked her entire identity. Cue a panic-attack-doom-spiral that brought her harshest childhood traumas to the surface. Isolated at home during a global pandemic, she felt piercing loneliness and a lack of purpose like she had never known. Finally, after experiencing a terrifying dissociative episode while driving down the highway, she realised that enough was enough; she needed to slow down and pull overβ€”literally. It was time for Tara to stop the hustling and to reclaim her essential, free, and loving self.

Glow in the F*cking Dark is a guide to healing your deepest wounds, getting off your 'good enough' plateau, and creating the spectacular life that you most desire. Tara clawed her way out of the darkness and recovered her shine, and in this book, she shows how to:

  • Recognise trauma reactions and choose new ways to respond
  • Find what's really under your anxiety
  • Repair your relationship with your body
  • Find solace and purpose in something bigger than yourself

Full of practical, achievable baby steps that we can take today, this book is for anyone ready to liberate themselves from their emotional suffering, discover their purpose, and finally sit in the driver's seat of their life. It's for anyone who is tired, hurting, and feeling like their essential brightness has dimmed. It's for people who are ready to glow, even when sh*t gets grim.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035407613

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Headline Home

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 238.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Tara Schuster is the author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, a finalist for Goodreads' Best Non-fiction Book of 2020 and selected by Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Goop, Publishers Weekly and many more as one of the year's best books on mental health and self-care. Previously, Schuster served as vice president of talent and development at Comedy Central, where she was the executive in charge of such critically acclaimed shows as the Emmy and Peabody award-winning Key & Peele. A contributor to InStyle, The New Yorker and Forbes, among others, Tara Schuster lives in Los Angeles.

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