"I am very cynical by nature. I think everything's woo and sucks until proven otherwise," she says. "Gratitude just opens the aperture right up because you are forced to see your life also includes joy, also includes laughter, also includes beautiful things" She started a gratitude practice after threatening to hurt herself at her friend's family compound in Maine. 'It has an accumulative effect to show you that your life is just so much bigger than you give it credit for being'
Tara Schuster‘s first book, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, was selected by Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Goop, Publishers Weekly, and many more as one of 2020’s best books on mental health and self-care. She served as VP of talent and development at Comedy Central, where she was the executive in charge of such critically acclaimed shows as the Emmy and Peabody award-winning Key & Peele. Her new book, Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way, is out now.
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