Emotionally Overqualified: Healed Hilarious Slightly Unhinged

Emotionally Overqualified is not a manual on moving on—it is a witty unfiltered chronicle of what happens when you keep handing out your heart to people who didn’t even fill out the basic requirements.In this bold and beautifully messy debut Yashika Chaudhary collects 45 essays that capture the unspoken side of modern love: the awkward situationships that last too long the “u up?” texts that arrive too late the almost-romances that never earn the title and the quiet heartbreaks that don’t even get the dignity of closure.With a voice that is sharp sarcastic and deeply vulnerable Yashika Chaudhary reflects on what it means to constantly be “too much” in a world that often gives you “too little.” She writes about crying in public restrooms and still showing up to work as if nothing happened rereading texts until they blur laughing at red flags and calling it chemistry and forgiving people who never asked to be forgiven.The essays oscillate between humour and ache between self-mockery and self-awareness. One moment you’re laughing at her sarcastic take on ghosting; the next you’re nodding at her raw account of staying in something that was never really yours.At its core Emotionally Overqualified is about calling yourself back after giving yourself away piece by piece. It’s about unlearning the idea that your softness is a weakness and realising instead that it is your greatest strength.Unlike self-help books that tell you how to “fix” yourself this collection doesn’t offer solutions. What it does offer is a mirror—sometimes fogged up sometimes painfully clear—showing you the messy complicated and oddly funny truth about being a woman who feels too deeply in an age of casual love.For every reader who has ever:✔ romanticised someone’s indifference✔ laughed off their own loneliness✔ written long unsent texts at 3 a.m.✔ or walked away but kept checking “last seen”—This book is a companion. A reminder that you are not “too much.” You are simply overqualified for people who were never ready for the job.Both biting and tender Emotionally Overqualified is an unapologetic exploration of heartbreak humour and healing—a debut that refuses to shrink itself and instead celebrates the art of feeling everything and still choosing to laugh.