This book was interesting read! I suffer from anxiety. While I find that this book didn’t help me out a lot, it was still great to read this from the authors perspective.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own

Self help books that root themselves in the experiences and perspectives of the authors are always a bit hit or miss. Readers who identify with the author tend to get for more out of these sorts of books than those who don't. In this particular case I found the author actively off-putting, which radically reduced the impact of his rather generic message.

As someone with anxiety and depression, this book was like a soothing caress for my brain. It's like a male version of Anne Lamott's books (which I also like) but less sentimental.
I hope many more read it.

You Matter.: Learning to Love Who You Really Are by Matthew Emerzian is a self-help book to help readers discover their meaning and live a more fulfilling life. The title is powerful and important to remember, "You [I] Matter." I added the "I" because it's important to put in a personal context.

The vivid description of his panic attack is powerful from his sense of dread, tunnel vision, and heart racing. I was drawn to this book because I often feel I don't matter. In going through my life transition, I thought it would be good to gain some strategies to begin to put myself first.

What resonated was his section on the emotional and mental heart, that vulnerable place deep inside us that we so often keep hidden.
Mr. Emerzian wanted to write this book to share his experiences and resources, and his mission is "to help people know how much and why they matter."

Overall, the book was pretty good, but not anything that I haven't read before. I felt You Matter was more memoir and talking about his experiences and only small sections on "Take Action" prompts and activities. I enjoyed the first part of the book, but then noticed myself skimming the later chapters due to the self-commentary. I would have liked to see more resources and more exercises to dig deeper into self-reflection.

I matter, this is a message that all of us need to hear at some point in our lives.

My life has been a huge roller coaster ride from the time I was diagnosed with GAD. I, therefore, could relate to author's panic attacks and how he was compelled to write Every Monday Matters.

This book has a simple message - We matter but it's not all about us.

This is an important message. It was made even more poignant through the stories that the author shared. He certainly has lived an interesting life - such an eclectic group of friends. He talks about his friends with such love that I wish I could meet most of the people that he mentioned.

The lessons are very important - be authentic, be a good friend and care about serving others. I think I needed this at this point in our life.

Thank you to NetGalley for a free copy of this book.

Well written, interesting.
Between a memoir and self help book.
I don't read enough of these.
Different, interesting, well put together.

ARC received through NetGalley. This is my honest review. All opinions are my own.

This is a memoir that wants to be a self-help book.
Author Matthew Emerzian describes his own struggles with anxiety and depression with open honesty.
Sections at the end of each chapter - take action, journal prompt and conversation starters - are the "self help" part, with questions to inspire you to delve deeper into your own thoughts and actions.

Amazing book. Life-changing! I suffer from anxiety and this was just the book I need, just at the right time. Highly recommend for everyone whether you suffer from anxiety or not. This is a how-to life your life to the fullest book.

You Matter is a self help book divided into three sections, each chapter has exsersises and journal prompts.

This book was not for me, a lot of it is writren in ferst person and personally I found it distracting.

Just because it was not for me does not mean its not for somone else. Each person is unique in their mental health journey. So I recomend you try diffrent things and this book may be for you.