Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies

Loved it

I just loved this book. The title grabbed me straight away. It’s such a great read. Its so well written. Full of really useful stuff. It took me a while to read because there is just so much stuff to absorb. It’s really helped me over the last month (during lockdown) and I have incorporated quite a few things from the book into my daily life. I think it will be a book that I read again and again. Well worth the money.

Tara writes from the heart. The book shares both very personal and intimate details of her childhood struggle combined with a compendium of ways to overcome them. The results are engaging and practical. She paints a colourful picture of describing ways one should love oneself, describes her solo dinner playing Ella Fitzgerald, the way she adds small things to her bath to treat herself, provides specifically journaling guidance which combines both personal details and the best advice found in things like the Artists' Way. She seems to have a photographic memory of her childhhood and shares endless pain from how she became embarrassed about her body, and the painful results of herr upbringing. It's even more powerful knowing how she succeeded so well in the television industry with all of this stuff lurking beneath the surface. The book combines intimate sharing, self-help and observations of herself as a work in progress.

I really wanted to love this book. I love the idea of the book, and I love the general jist and points she make however the writing was a little too creative for me at times. There is only so much "funny" I can read until it starts to get a bit annoying. The attempt at making every section really "funny" or engaging was at times, just over kill. If it had been toned down, this book would be half as long! still a half decent read, although I can not finish it. Update: sadly the authors political statements are a total turn off

This book changed my life. I will just start there. I have purchased not one, not two but three copies of this book. I have given it as gifts and read and re-read it. Tara has this way of making you feel like .. well we aren’t alone in this world and maybe sometimes it is okay to be just where you are. Life moves forward and we all grow (if we choose) and learn from our lessons. We can sometimes even laugh about it. I was in a place where maybe this book found me .. or I found it but either way .. it changed my life. I had just had a major break up, major surgery and then Covid hit the world and it was a bit much but ... I found some good in the bad. I started journaling .. and writing what I was grateful for and .. going for walks (couldn’t run at the time) and ... bought some thank you cards ... and life got a little bit better. This book put me on the path to some serious self love and .. becoming a better person.. so that I can make the world a bit better for the people I love. Tara’s book is humorous and there is a vulnerability she shares with the world.. I mean how many of us would write down our “stuff” and put it out there.. for the world to see. I don’t usually write reviews but this one is worth the time. We all have the choice to read books and maybe they will help us .. but In the end it isn’t up to the author to change our lives, it is up to us. They give us a little push and perspective in life. I will forever be grateful for this book. I will probably ready it a dozen times and gift it to more friends because I believe the message is positive and a good one and we should all go buy ourselves the fu$King lilies.