This book is such a disappointment. Buckets of crazy feminist bs in it. This sucks as a help book. It started out pretty good but turned into an annoying tirade about patriarchy and an obesity glorifying mantra. I was stressed out just reading it. The messages are a copy&paste from girls magazines: find joy, not happinness, connection and passion are key, etc. etc. The villain is the patriarchy only, and being overweight is awesome, because we are all such special snowflakes. I hear you, dear author. None should be discriminated because of their appearance. But why, not once do you mention the medical issues overweight entails. I wonder why, dear overweight author. This particular part of the book annoyed me to no end, because Nagoski does not talk about the real issue at hand, that being the fact that most societies discriminate people because of their appearance and maybe try to see the reasons for that. The Nagoski sisters just are just stuck at the point hammering into your head that you're awesome, no matter how unhealthy your lifestyle may be to your own body. It feels like this book is their message board to all those who bullied them because of their weight. Well, that's not what I was paying for. #The world changes! The nonsense of discrimination towards women is NOT status quo anymore everywhere. I just need to ask about the gender quote in an interview for a new job, and the male interviewer starts sweating immediately. We get pampered just because of our sex. That is not equality. There's nothing eye-opening in this book. None of the promised helpful advice. Not a recommendation from me.

Tatsächlich geht es in dem Buch vor allem um "Stress". Das ist auch der deutsche Titel und trifft den Inhalt meiner Meinung nach besser. Die Autorinnen zeigen woher unser Stress kommt und wie wir ihm begegnen können um dadurch nicht krank zu werden. Die Autorinnen weben hier auch spezielle Faktoren und Informationen für Frauen und weiblich gelesene Personen ein. Sie beleuchten das Thema also auch von einer feministischen Seite. Das fand ich sehr spannend im Kontext von Stress und Arbeitswelt. In anderen Kontexten war es für mich manchmal etwas zu präsent bzw hatte ich das Gefühl man kommt schon weit vom eigentlichen Thema ab. Trotzdem habe ich viele gute Denkanstöße und Tipps bekommen, von denen ich einige seit Beginn des Buches auch schon umgesetzt habe oder noch dabei bin.