It’ll be difficult to formulate my words, and I do realise that some of it will come out as word vomit, but I’ll try my best. My issue is that I constantly keep on having an existential crisis with the thought that I have to be able to rely on myself fully financially, physically, and emotionally. My day to day life is focused around trying to make my future life as good as possible by having extremely high expectations of how I live that day. It ends up being to the point where I get so exhausted that I’ll fall asleep randomly, not necessarily because I’m doing a lot, but more because my brain is constantly on stress mode. Now I know that I cannot do anything alone and we all need to rely on each other and help each other. But it’s as if I’m always trying to prevent a catastrophe from happening. Now all this goes back to my childhood. So, I guess my question is if any of you have any book recommendations on how to heal your inner child, CPTSD (specifically related to childhood abuse and trauma), how to look after oneself, how to manage your twenties, or anything that popped into your head from all of my babbling? Thank you so much for reading my frazzled thoughts 🩷

I've always wondered about these celebrity book clubs, especially since the books they have chosen for the month are announced publicly by having that annoyingly hard to remove sticker on the book itself. Like, what do you do in these celebrity book clubs? Do you post your thoughts on the book on a public forum or something? Also, do you think that some of these celebrity book clubs like Reese Witherspoon's and Dua Lipa's are performative in nature to make them look like they are well-read women? I would love to know your thoughts on this.

While listening to this audiobook, I received the news notification that Trump has renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. I had to stop the playback because while Kimmerer was talking about Carlisle, I was struck with the fact that the name of the lake - the indigenous name of the lake - is being stripped from it to satisfy the hunger of a little man with too much power. For those of you who don't know, Ontario comes from thr Iroquois word kanadario meaning "sparkling water."

IDK how I feel about all the characters and POV changes. I am, however, loving the descriptions. Enough that you can get a feeling for the moment, but not too much that you get lost.