Do I Feel Better Yet?

If youve ever dared to express dissatisfaction with the state of your life, youve inevitably received a variety of helpful suggestions: Have you tried meditation? Exercise? A cult? An exercise cult? In Do I Feel Better Yet?, Madeleine Trebenski explores more than 45 so-called solutions suggested to her in the name of self-care. In a playful and at times sardonic chronicle of the elusive promises of multistep skin-care routines, gratitude journaling, scented candles, and more, Trebenski perfectly captures what its like to live in a time when homemade kombucha and weighted blankets are said to single-handedly solve all our problems. These essays will make you laugh, make you feel less alone, and maybe make you feel bettereven if just for a little while. See more