The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

Rachels The Art of Showing Up is a handbook Ill refer to for years to come. She writes inclusively and without judgement about how to show up for yourself and your people in ways both big and small. Ive already put into practice several of the strategies shes laid out, and my best friend on a phone call this weekend literally said, Thank you, this conversation really turned my day around and it was the therapy I didnt know I needed. This book should be required reading for being a more conscious, compassionate, and direct human being.

This book was well written for those who want to know how to show up and support friends and acquaintances – and how you can politely but firmly stand up for yourself in friendships and groups.
The examples she uses were sometimes goofy, sometimes serious, but actually gave me some great feelings and deeper thoughts about how I interact and support people, and how I can show up when I cant physically be there.
Definitely worth a read!

I read the entire book. Practical advice about how to show up for yourself and friends. I would recommend to anyone that needs to learn to work through friendship difficulties.

LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!

In The Art of Showing Up, Rachel Wilkerson Miller shares information, examples, exercises, and resources to help you better understand and show up for yourself and others. I love the authors voice; she sounds casual, warm, friendly, relatable, and encouraging. Reading this book, I felt like I would love to be her friend, which makes me inclined to trust her advice on how to be a better friend.

This is a book I plan to return to often. Some sections work best if you allow plenty of time to explore the suggested questions and practices, while other sections might work best as a reference. The author encourages small steps repeated often to build tolerance to new habits, and she frequently acknowledges that we all have different contexts and abilities, so her advice feels feasible. I particularly loved her guidance on boundaries, which I think many of us struggle with. And I loved her discussion of body neutrality, an idea I wasnt familiar with.

Her discussions of how to cope when difficult things happen, in your own life or someone elses, are especially relevant during the current pandemic. I found the concept of different levels of friendship very helpful; I now feel more confident about choosing how much to disclose to friends of different levels.

I loved this book so much, and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in living a more authentic, aligned life and having better relationships of all kinds. Honestly, I would love to see everyone reading this book, and then perhaps wed all have happier, healthier, more conscious relationships with ourselves and each other.

I was provided an unproofed ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

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