Thank you for joining us for episode 396 of Live Happy Now.

If you're looking to make changes in your life, well, maybe you should talk to someone.

I'm your host Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with Lori Gottlie, a psychotherapist, author, and podcast host whose book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, became a runaway bestseller,

and, as you're about to hear, is even being made into a television series.

Now, Lori has developed a guided journal based on the immense feedback she received on her book.

Just like therapy, this journal walks users through the transformation process one weekly session at a time.

She's here to tell us how the book and journal came about and what she hopes to see happen as a result.

Let's have a listen.

Lori, thank you so much for being on Live Happy Now.

Oh, well, thank you so much for having me.

It's such an honor.

You are doing so many wonderful things and I'm super excited about this interview.

You know, obviously, we're here to talk about your journal, which is based on your book.

Maybe you should talk to someone.

So before we jump into the journal, let's make sure we talk about that original book, the OG that started this whole movement.

Yeah. So maybe you should talk to someone is really an interesting book because it follows the lives of four of my patients as I

help them through their struggles as their therapist. And then there's a fifth patient in the book,

and that is me as I go through my own struggle at midlife and I go to seek therapy

with a therapist. So it's kind of looking at how we get through the difficulties and the challenges

in our lives, you know, from both sides of the couch, as they say. But really, it's not so much

about therapy. It's about the human condition. And it's

about the universal challenges that we all go through. But it's also a very funny book. And there's

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