As a therapist, Lori knows a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss, and how change and loss travel together.<\/p>\n
She knows how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for her frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role she might have in the existential play called My Incredibly Important Life. When a devastating event takes place in Lori\u2019s life, she realises that, before being able to help her patients, she must first learn how to help herself.<\/p>\n
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is the story of an incredible relationship \u2013 between Lori, a therapist at a critical life juncture, and her own therapist, Wendell, a veteran therapist with an unconventional style.<\/p>\n
Through their sessions, Wendell teaches Lori how to become a better person and a better therapist, as she goes about the business of helping her own patients \u2013 the couple who are struggling after having a baby, the narcissist TV producer, the older woman who feels she has nothing to live for, the self-destructive alcoholic young woman, the terminally ill 35-year old newlywed. Taking place over one year, beginning with the devastating event that lands her in Wendell\u2019s office, this is a rare and candid insight into a profession conventionally bound with rules and secrecy, told with charm and compassion, vulnerability and humour.<\/p>\n