Reviewed in France on 26 March 2025

A Book That Truly Hits Home – A Mirror to My Past and a Guide for My Future
When I picked up this book, I didn’t expect it to stir up so much within me. From the very first chapters, it felt like someone had turned on a light in a room I’d been wandering through in the dark for years. What I read was painfully familiar—and it touched me more deeply than I could have imagined.

My life began in a warm and safe environment, but everything changed when I turned fourteen. My parents divorced, we moved to a new town, and I started at a school where I didn’t know a single person. It was a massive shift. And even though I always came across as cheerful and quick with a joke, I slowly began to lose touch with myself, without really realising it.

For years, I struggled with self-doubt, not understanding where it came from. I chose an education path in technical studies that never felt like the right fit. I constantly felt like I had to go to school or internships, even though I didn’t want to. Life eventually led to financial hardship and problematic debt, made worse by a lack of support and understanding from my local municipality. Depression set in, my relationship suffered, and life started to feel like a dead end.

All of this built up over the years until my mid-thirties. Thankfully, I’ve since found stability: a nice home, a steady job, and financial peace. But one thing still lingered: this quiet, constant sense of not being good enough. That feeling had taken root early in life and grown to feel completely normal.

Then I found this book. And it was like a wake-up call. All the doubts, stress, and pressure I’ve felt over the years started to make sense. I realised that much of it came from beliefs I’d developed long ago and had unknowingly accepted as truth. I had normalised stress, setbacks, and rejection.

What makes this book so powerful is that it doesn’t just point out the pain—it offers a path to healing. It gives you practical tools and honest reflections to help you reconnect with who you truly are. Through it, I discovered that I’ve always been okay, just as I am. My mistakes don’t define me. My struggles don’t disqualify me. Growth is not dependent on perfection.

I plan to read the book again and take the time to truly answer the self-reflective questions it poses. This isn’t the kind of book you read once and forget—it’s something you carry with you, like a guidebook on your journey back to yourself.

I can wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone struggling with self-image, doubt, or old emotional wounds. This book won’t hand you easy answers—but it will offer you insight, compassion, and the tools to begin again.