How Do You Feel?

"""If you've ever said ""I'm fine"" when you weren't. If you've ever been so many things to so many people that you became unavailable to yourself. If you've ever believed you were too much, not nearly enough, or somehow, inexplicably, both at once. This book is for you. For us. Jessi Gold's How Do You Feel? is one of the most human, most reassuring books I've ever read about the intersection of mental health, work, medicine, and culture. What a gift."" --Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful ""In How Do You Feel, Dr. Gold manages the seemingly impossible. She gently brings healthcare workers into conversation with our sometimes complicated inner worlds, and does this with wisdom, humor and candor. She lovingly nudges us to awareness and acknowledgement of the immense emotional load we've carried and holds space for our collective reflection. Ultimately she calls on us to do the most radical thing imaginable: to care for ourselves even as we care for others. A true game-changer, moving conversations about caregiver mental health into an exciting, new and generative space."" --Rana Awdish, MS MD Author of In Shock ""This book will make you laugh, marvel, reflect and grow. Most of all, it will make you feel seen. Whether you're a healthcare worker, someone who loves one, someone who sees one, or someone who is struggling, Dr. Jessi Gold's words -- and the many intimate stories here, including her own -- will be a balm and a guide."" --Lucy Kalanithi, MD, Clinical associate Professor of medicine, Stanford university, and widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air"