In this fun, debut memoir-cum-guide to "reparenting" oneself and living one's best life, Schuster, a Comedy Central executive, candidly shares her worst experiences and what's she learned from them. She writes of how she went from self-medicating and self-sabotaging to reclaiming her life by developing healthy rituals such as journaling, writing thank you notes, using vision boards, and cultivating gratefulness. She also divulges sage advice she's been given from mentors and friends, including Jon Stewart and Anjelica Huston. Other advice includes tips on how to build a "lady harem" (or dream team of supportive friends), make peace with frenemies, keep one's home dinner-party-ready, and how to best manage money. For the final chapters, she shares what she's learned in her relationships with men and members of her family. Schuster is jovial throughout and relies on the authority of her experience as she surveys but never overly lauds her impressive career. Filled with gems of wisdom, Schuster's chronicle of her ups and downs is a winner. (Feb.)

In this candid guide to self-care, writer and Comedy Central exec Tara Schuster outlines regimented but realistic ways to replace destructive behaviors with healthy ones. On the morning after her twenty-fifth birthday, Schuster woke up hungover and depressed, ready to change her life for good. Trauma from childhood had festered untreated, and it was time for Schuster to learn how to parent herself as an adult. Her low-cost tips for a healthy lifestyle are centered around the notion of caring for yourself the way you would care for another. Schuster journals to validate and acknowledge her thoughts, practices basic gratitude, documents patterns in her romantic relationships, moves her body, feeds it real food, treats herself to adventures and treasures that bring her joy, but does not stretch her financial situation to do so. Schuster is generous in sharing her experience with this journey toward mindfulness. Her anecdotes of friendship, work, family, relationships, and self-discovery are sweet and rife with imperfect behavior, which is exactly why readers will find her guidance so effective.