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  • How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
  • Written by: Christie Tate
  • Narrated by: Christie Tate
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (95 ratings)

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Written by: Christie Tate
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A Reese's Book Club Pick * New York Times Best Seller

The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - and finds human connection, and herself.

Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements?

Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything - her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure. You need a witness.”

So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying, and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. Rosen’s outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect.

“Often hilarious, and ultimately very touching” (People), Group is “a wild ride” (The Boston Globe), and with Christie as our guide, we are given a front row seat to the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy - an under-explored process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.

©2020 Christie Tate. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Loved every second! Original, raw, emotional, my favorite of 2021. I'm likely to listen again, and that's a rarity.

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I thought I was reading a good fiction novel. But the vulnerability and honesty of this writer blew me away. I related and laughed, cried and felt all her emotions. Highly recommend this book. Thank you, with you opening up about your pain, you helped me conquer some of mine.❤️🦋

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Wow what an incredible story to listen to. I loved every minute of it. Kept me coming back for more.

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Group Therapy- family, belonging and love

A great memoir of Christie Tate, an overachieving lawyer that enters group therapy. Her sessions reveal her uncensored and explicit: childhood, eating disorder and sexual history. Christie describes her experience in a unique group therapy set up where she soon discovers the notion of family, belonging and love. Prior to group therapy, Christie had an eating disorder and issues with intimacy (not to mention her continuous pattern to select men that were unavailable). Through Christie’s incredible journey she takes us back to her childhood and past experiences, relating to some of the issues she has had as an adult. Group therapy became a backbone for Christie, allowing her to have close people she can lean and depend on. It is remarkable how Christie’s experience in group therapy pushed her to accomplish all that she has wanted in life, hence a “happy ending”. But of course, as Christie mentions, it does not end there. This is very much real life and Christie continues to work on how to deepen relationships, which involve the support of her group members. This displays the notion that one’s journey is continuous and the room for self-growth is infinite. Moral of the story: We can all benefit from Group therapy.

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