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Say "hell no!" to saying yes to everything with the help of Lean the F*ck Out
Just
don't do it. From the mental load to the laundry load to the everyday load of BS-you carry it all and then some. You're killing it at work, cooking super healthy sh*t at home, parenting like it's an Olympic sport, saving the Earth one paper straw at a time, and still going to bed feeling like you should have done more.
Time to join the revolution. Hop off the hamster wheel of endless guilt and responsibilities and start enjoying the kind of calm that would make a Buddhist master blush. Talia Argondezzi's
Lean the F*ck Out is a joyful manifesto on the benefits of using shortcuts, delegating like a checked-out boss, failing at things that don't matter, and claiming your joy. All you have to do is:
- Be a B student for once in your perfection-driven life.
- Let some things slide. (Really. It's okay.)
- Untangle your self-worth from your achievements.
- Make time for that good, good sh*t.
- Say goodbye to burnout and feel like yourself again.
List of contents
Introduction: A Joyful No-Bullshit Manifesto
Chapter 1: How History Fucked Us Over
Chapter 2: What's Wrong with Leaning In?
Chapter 3: Aim Lower (at Home, at Work, and on Social Media)
Chapter 4: The Joy of Not Cooking
Chapter 5: The Magic of Do-Less Parenting
Chapter 6: Things to Care Less About
Chapter 7: Things to Care More About, Like Happiness
About the author
Talia Argondezzi teaches English and writing at Ursinus College. Her humor writing has appeared in
McSweeney's, The New Yorker Daily Shouts, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Slackjaw, Frazzled, The Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. She lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, with two kids, two cats, one husband, and about a dozen houseplants that are mostly sort of alive.
Summary
A breezy nonfiction book for burned-out women that addresses and affirms post-pandemic life fatigue.
