—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed, founder of Together Rising, and host of the podcast We Can Do Hard Things
For the past decade, Tara Schuster worked like hell to repair the emotional wounds inflicted during what she refers to as her neglected, “mess-wreck disaster” of a childhood. She brought radical self-care, healing rituals, and self-love into her life, and on most days, she was a grateful, happy, and stable adult. She even wrote a book about it!
But then she lost her job, the one on which she had staked her entire adult identity. Cue an out-of-body-panic-attack-doom-spiral and deep depression that brought her harshest childhood traumas to the surface. Isolated at home during a global pandemic, she experienced piercing loneliness and a lack of purpose like she had never known. Finally, after a particularly dangerous dissociative episode while driving down the highway, she realized that enough was enough; she needed to slow down and pull over, to stop the relentless hustling that had gotten her this far, and to recover her innermost self.
This book is a guide to healing your deepest soul wounds, getting off your “good enough” plateau, developing habits that will give you lasting courage and resolve, and creating the spectacular life that you actually want. Full of practical, free baby-steps we can take today, it’s for people who are ready to liberate themselves from their emotional suffering, discover their purpose, and finally sit in the driver’s seat of their experience. It’s for anyone who is tired, hurting, and feeling like their essential brightness is gone. It’s for people who are ready to glow in the f*cking dark.
“Tara Schuster is a phenomenal storyteller—a woman who insisted on reclaiming her agency, to shine in bleak circumstances. Glow in the F*cking Dark is a revealing and powerful book that lit me up from the inside out.”
—GLENNON DOYLE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed, founder of Together Rising, and host of the podcast We Can Do Hard Things
“Tara Schuster has done something remarkable: She’s written a guide to facing the slings and arrows of life that’s both delightfully irreverent and disarmingly earnest. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you might just come away stronger and better.”
— ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
“Healing takes effort—and we can’t do it alone. In Glow in the F*cking Dark, Tara Schuster guides us along as she finds her way through her own pain and offers honest, often funny, and actionable advice for taking charge of your emotional health.”
—LORI GOTTLIEB, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the podcast Dear Therapists
"Glow in the F*cking Dark proves that Tara Schuster is a modern-day guru for people who really hate gurus. Ruthlessly authentic and bitingly hilarious, Tara takes us on a roller coaster of self-discovery, revealing that we are all the student and the teacher on our own paths to growth and healing."
—MELISSA URBAN, Co-Founder of the Whole30 and bestselling author of The Whole 30 and the forthcoming The Book of Boundaries
