Everyone's a Critic: How we can learn to be kind to ourselves

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Stories of learning to feel good enough, from psychotherapist and award-winning writer Julia Bueno.

Have you ever struggled to feel good enough Do you find that you treat yourself worse than you'd ever treat a friend or family member

EVERYONE'S A CRITIC is a powerful, potentially life-changing exploration of self-criticism, which psychotherapist Julia Bueno has found to be at the centre of almost all the problems that clients bring to her consulting room. Built around beautifully written case studies drawn from her own practice, Bueno's book argues that self-criticism is a universal issue that most of us need to tackle in order to have a happier life - and gives readers a variety of stories and tools to begin helping themselves.

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This sensitive, insightful and occasionally self-critical book made me think that its author must be very good at her job * Times Literary Supplement *
Insightful, honest ... Bueno's writing is accessible, with reference made to pre and post-pandemic experiences, of working with clients in an office, but also online, and she speaks in a frank manner to us the reader * Entertainment Focus *
Julia Bueno explores such an important topic, and one that holds so many people back: our inner critic. This book discusses where it may come from and, through case studies, how we can rewrite the script. Gently enquiring, authoritative and reassuring. * Annalisa Barbieri *
A quiet revelation: an investigation into the lacerating self-criticism many of us unleash upon ourselves without even being aware of it. One thinks, feels and learns. A compelling and important book * Hannah Betts *
If you've ever felt that little voice - or a very loud one - at the back of your mind telling you you're no good, Julia Bueno's book is the ideal way to answer back * Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie *
This is most certainly not a self-help book to beat yourself up with. Julia Bueno explains how self-criticism affects many of us and digs far deeper than the usual social-media-blaming... It's an important, timely book that many will benefit from reading and acting upon * Louise Chunn, founder of therapist-matching site Welldoing *

Author Bio

Julia Bueno practises full-time as a psychotherapist in London. Her first book, The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage, won the British Medical Association Popular Medicine Book Award 2021 and was the runner-up for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2021.

She has a particular expertise in working with pregnancy loss and infertility, and has met countless self-critics in her consulting room. Her writing has been published in The Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Times and Psychology Today, and she reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement.