Notes to Self by Emilie Pine Summary
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In "Notes to Self," Emilie Pine shatters taboos with raw honesty about infertility, addiction, and female pain. This Irish #1 bestseller sparked cultural conversations on vulnerability and silence-breaking. What uncomfortable truth might you finally feel brave enough to confront?
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When Words Become Weapons Against Silence
Picture a hospital in Corfu where patients die without family present because there aren't enough nurses after 5 PM. Now imagine cleaning your alcoholic father's blood-soaked sheets using linens scavenged from empty beds, watching nurses handle transfusions without gloves. This isn't a nightmare-this is Emilie Pine's reality, captured in essays that arrived during Ireland's abortion referendum like a cultural thunderclap. What started as private notes hidden in a drawer became a phenomenon that made Lena Dunham declare Pine "so sharp she drew blood" and prompted Anne Enright to warn readers not to open it in public "because it will make you cry." Through unflinching examinations of alcoholism, infertility, sexual violence, and burnout, these essays articulate what many have felt but few have dared to name, creating what became an unexpected lifeline for readers drowning in their own unspoken experiences.
The Exhausting Mathematics of Loving an Addict
The Cruel Limbo of Wanting What Won't Come
The Thirty-Year Silence That Shaped Everything
Blood, Shame, and the Body's Forbidden Story
The Dissociation Lesson: How Girls Learn to Disappear
From Silence to Story: Reclaiming What Was Denied
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"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
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