You Tried

<p>For emotionally inconsistent overachievers burnt-out soft people and anyone pretending to be fine. </p><p>You meant to get your life together.</p><p>You tried to heal hustle journal meditate optimize exfoliate your trauma and pivot into a better you.</p><p>It didn't work. That's okay.</p><p>This book won't fix you either.</p><p>What it will do is sit beside you-softly judging gently spiralling and offering comfort in the form of wildly specific lists painfully relatable quizzes fake motivational quotes and guided visualizations that smell faintly of existential dread.</p><p>Part self-help parody part emotional survival guide You Tried traces nine deeply unnecessary stages of personal development from denial to weaponized mediocrity. Along the way it offers:</p><ul><li>Productivity rituals for people who never follow through</li><li>A fake diploma in Emotional Resilience™</li><li>Burnout Bingo</li><li>The Spiral Survival Go-Bag™</li><li>Affirmations like I am doing my best and sometimes my best is medium</li><li>...and an optional exit survey you'll fill out ironically</li></ul><p></p><p>Written for anyone who's ever cried in a grocery store Googled how to be okay or responded to a text with LOL I'm fine You Tried is a deeply human meditation on doing less spiralling with style and calling it growth.</p><p>This is not a guide to success.</p><p>It's a messy shrine to trying anyway.</p>