Not as advertised

I heard a podcast that featured the author & when she was promoting this book she made it sound like something it’s not. I was expecting more about burnout and how to deal with it, symptoms, etc…. But this was a memoir, and quite a whiny one at that. I got 1/3 through it and almost the entire thing was talking about eating disorders… not always in a helpful way. As someone with a history of eating disorders, I didn’t find it even remotely helpful to listen to chapter after chapter of this, diving back into a first person view of what happens psychologically during disordered eating. Additionally a LOT of information on dental issues, which I’ve also had….. but nothing helpful, not even in the way that you sometimes feel camaraderie when someone has gone through the same thing. This was just, honestly, whining. And it sounds like she’s had a tough life, but I didn’t buy the book to hear every detail of someone’s childhood psychological traumas. It was too much and not enough at the same time, I couldn’t get through it.

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More for young millennials without kids or new grads with few responsibilities

I appreciate the author sharing her journey and introducing some thought provoking points about the impossible standards we place on ourselves. I loved “The F*ck It Diet” and have incorporated concepts from both books into my self-care arsenal: allowing myself to relax, take up space in the world, work on parts of myself other than outward appearances. Our nonstop way of life does allow “hustle culture” companies to prey on our insecurities and make us slaves to the hamster wheel of self improvement and chasing success and beauty.

However…I think anyone that has parented young children through this pandemic; anyone who has weathered working from home with kids out of school, worked in healthcare during COVID, lost their jobs or livelihood as the result of lockdowns, had to play homeschool teacher while trying to make ends meet…might find her view of “tired” to be pretty tone-deaf.

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needs an editor

A Good narrator to her story, however she constantly repeated the story in too many chapters.

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A MUST read.

I am a 74 year old woman who has had more therapy and self-help work than might even be quantifiable. And yet I learned and benefited so very much from Caroline's book Tired As Fuck. Not only is her voice a perfect blend of humor and knowledge but her words pierce the soul with their truth. The mixture of memoir and searing cultural observations make the book even more impactful. It is an absorbing, positive and energetic treatise on a subject that is epidemic in our society. I read it in two days. Her journey, for someone, by my standards, so young, is inspiring and has changed my entire perspective about how I want to live, truly live, the rest of my life.

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This Book Made Me Tired as F*uck

A better title would of been B*tchy as F*ck. Wish I would have not purchased this. This is just a b*tchy memoir with no real answers that will leave you exhausted. If this is a self help book, help yourself and skip it.

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Not really about rest

This book was a story of the author's life and troubles. It discusses in some places why rest is good, but not much more. Might be especially relevant if someone is recovering from an eating disorder like she is.

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A book about the authors problems

I started this book cause I feel tired and burnt out constantly, thought it would be some kind of help book for that but no. I’m more than half way into it now and it has all been about bad experiences the author had in her younger years. If anything it added to my stress and burnout.

So relatable!

Caroline is such an amazing story teller and so relatable! If you’re Tired as F*ck like I am, it’s a must read!

I felt like the author was in my head!

Do you ever feel like you can’t stand one more thing? That if work asks you to do one more thing you will literally be buried? That you just want to lie in bed and see no one? That you wish a great miracle would happen? Well this isn’t about miracles, but it’s a great memoir of how one person finally got ahold of the stress and learned to rest. Good advice. I’m going to listen again.

Just Fine

Caroline’s memoir aims to help us care for ourselves but accomplishes only a chronology of the author’s many diets and lifelong struggle with disordered eating. It should probably come with a major trigger warning about eating disorders.