Open When - by Julie Smith (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith (@drjulie) returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of "break in case of emergency" advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur.

In this essential guide, Dr. Julie teaches her millions of readers and clients how to navigate life's toughest occurrences while they're happening, rather than moments or years after the fact. What if we can learn to harness our emotions and stay present so we can process and choose how to respond to a situation?

Picking up where Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? leaves off, Dr. Julie shares the research-backed concepts and powerful skills we can use to weather our most vulnerable moments. Learn how to move through any situation with grace, including:

• When it's hard to be with yourself: facing vulnerability alone, dealing with your inner critic, and handling imposter syndrome.
• When it's hard to be with other people: dealing with betrayal and knowing what to do when you (or your parents) got it wrong.
• When it's hard to be with your feelings: coping with loneliness, fear, and hopelessness
• When you're healing from the past: getting out of a trauma response and learning how to stop ruminating about old events.
• When you're looking to the future: preventing making the same mistakes, tackling uncertainty, and finding your path.

Open When teaches each of us to find and listen to the positive voice within when we need it most, and to care for our future selves and our mental health.

Review Quotes

"Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need." - Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the "Dear Therapists" podcast, on Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"Now more than ever, people are struggling with their mental health and Dr. Julie Smith delivers in a big way in "Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before." Her practical tips and tools are for anyone struggling with anxiety, self-doubt, or depression. Readers will step away from this book feeling more resilient and able to take control of their own lives. If you want to feel like you have a therapist sitting across from you, empowering you with how to be your best self, this book is for you!" - Nicole LePera, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work, on Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist in her debut book, Dr. Julie Smith provides readers with the skills they need to fortify and maintain their mental health." - Fortune on Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"Warm and welcoming. Smith focuses on weighty topics that we all contend with, such as stress, grief, fear and self-doubt, and provides suggestions for how to work through these feelings. . . . Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is seasoned with compassionate insights." - BookPage on Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?