I Just Havent Met You Yet, Tracy Strauss
I Just Havent Met You Yet, Tracy Strauss
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I Just Haven't Met You Yet
Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life

Author: Tracy Strauss

Narrator: Teri Clark Linden

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/07/2019

Synopsis

A Modern-Day Bridget Jones’s Diary Meets Eat, Pray, Love, One of Bustle’s “Writers to Watch” Offers Advice, Life Lessons, and Lots of Heart I Just Haven’t Met You Yet details Tracy Strauss’s dating history and her journey to dismantle the effects and stigmas of an abusive past, break free of destructive relationship patterns, and ultimately conquer her fear of truly being seen by the world, flaws and all. The author shares the transformative lessons she learned and self-empowerment she achieved while passing each hurdle along the way to finding the love of her life.Tracy Strauss helps readers empower themselves by taking a challenging look at the ways the negative events of their lives, including sexual harassment and abuse, have shaped their self-perception and created obstacles to personal success, and how readers can change that troubled self-image along with their (love) lives. I Just Haven’t Met You Yet is a modern-day journey of the heart. It is a story about taking big risks, changing old habits and beliefs about dating, and speaking back to the naysayers, especially that internal critic, the inner love saboteur. It is a prime mover and the only epistolary memoir cum dating/relationship essay book of its kind.

About Tracy Strauss

Tracy Strauss, named by Bustle as one of eight women writers with advice to follow, is the former essays editor of The Rumpus and winner of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for Nonfiction. A contributor to Glamour’s sex and relationships column, she has been featured on The Steve Harvey Show and is a relationship blogger for the Huffington Post. She teaches writing in Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate

I'm so conflicted about this book. It's well written, but I struggled to find the narrator sympathetic. That sounds horrible given what the book is about, but I couldn't get past the fact that she criticizes and puts down almost everybody she comes in contact with. This book is a series of vague imp......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

This is a must-read for anyone who's been single for a long time and/or anyone who has overcome or is in the process of overcoming an abusive childhood. Tracy writes with raw honesty as well as humor. You will enjoy joining her on her journey of self discovery and empowerment. A hopeful story of liv......more

Goodreads review by K

In this terrific book, author Tracy Strauss deals forthrightly with both her childhood sexual abuse and the severe PTSD that resulted from it. Strauss eloquently details her gradually deepening understanding of her past, as well as her sometimes-unsuccessful efforts to put it behind her in the searc......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa

This book—which is a memoir, not self-help—made me understand things about how my own mind worked as a child that I had never been able to articulate or fully understand. Seeing the pain of her youth hauntingly reflect my own was both heartbreaking and cathartic. I shared her fears and related to som......more

Goodreads review by Janet

I devoured Tracy Strauss' book I JUST HAVEN'T MET YOU YET. Everything about this book glimmers - the literary quality, the story, the format. Each chapter begins with a letter to Strauss' future life partner, but any reader will feel like she's confiding in us, her trusted friends. Strauss' personal......more

Quotes

"This is powerful writing about how abuse and parental betrayal can result in relationship patterns that make romantic connections challenging. As the author describes how she slowly overcame these patterns and became open to love, the steady determination in [Teri Clark Linden's] performance, there all along, begins to sound fitting and effective. It signals that healing can occur—with grit, faith, and the help of caring professionals." —AudioFile Magazine

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