GLOW IN THE F*CKING DARK

The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons for healing your past and owning your future so you can radiate strength, bravery, and joy when life gets dark.

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! Cue Buy Yourself the F*cking Lillies. But in 2020 she lost her job at Comedy Central, essentially her whole identity and purpose, and the loneliness and isolation of the pandemic only made things worse.

This brings us to the opening chapter of Glow where Tara writes of a dissociative episode in which she's speeding down Highway 40 screaming "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?" into the vast nothingness of the Mojave Desert. She was stuck in a loop of out-of-body-panic-attack-doom-spirals and deep depression. She had hit rock bottom. With an intervention call from her new therapist she eventually pulls over, pulls it together and realizes then that enough was enough. Glow in the F*cking Dark is a compilation of the tips and processes that allowed her to recover her innermost self.

Broken down into three parts (Heal, Grow and Glow), this book is a guide to healing the deepest soul wounds, getting off the "good enough" plateau, developing habits that give lasting courage and resolve, and creating the spectacular life that you actually want. Full of real, free baby-steps (from her tips for how to distract yourself from how un-fun healing is to the power of journaling to her four steps to healing what she calls "money sickness" and so much more), 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 no matter how dark things may seem. It's for anyone who is tired, hurting, and feeling like their essential brightness is gone. Tara learned how to glow in the f*cking dark, and you can too.

Combining hilarious, relatable, gut-wrenching personal stories with accessible, practical advice on how to create lasting change and heal the soul, this book is the perfect blend of memoir & self-help that appeals to readers of voicey, irreverent and bold inspiration think Jen Sincero (You Are a Badass), Sarah Knight (Calm the F*ck Down) and Mark Manson (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck).

Tara Schuster is an author, playwright, and accomplished television executive. Her first book, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies has been translated into four languages. InStyle, People, Real Simple, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, Goop, Publishers Weekly, and many others have highlighted the book as one of the best recent memoirs about mental health and establishing self-care.