Youtuber, Podcaster, Influencer and Author - does this book fit into Tam's famed content?
Dates read: 02/09/24 to 06/12/24
Word to describe: Easy
Star rating:⭐⭐⭐
Genre: Self Development, Self Help, Alternative Therapy.
I adore Tam Kaur. I truly mean it when I say her content entered my life in a time when I needed advice and guidance. I had found myself existing therapy and still on anti-depressants and I was for something (anything) that would help me stick to my goal of healing my mental health and growing as a person. I have watched Tam's content for nearly three years now and when she announced her new venture as an author I was immensely proud (as I supposed all YouTube fans are when their YouTuber becomes more successful) and I knew I had to read this. I pre-ordered on Amazon after the announcement and eagerly awaited the release for weeks, watching the teasers on Instagram and the long YouTube videos detailing day-in-the-life of a pending author. I told myself I loved this book, I needed to love this book. It was okay.
From the onset I wanted to love this book, I really did but it felt like a rehash of everything I had already heard in Tam's multiple platforms. The chapters were her YouTube videos and podcasts compiled into one handy hardback. Brilliant if you're new to self-development but as an avid fan of this content for a long time now this wasn't anything new or even compelling. Whilst the lessons were good to reiterate in my mind and reinforce these beliefs, it was all thing I had already heard. I expected new lessons, new advice, new thought-provoking content focused around self-development and instead it was cliché life lessons re-wrapped in a pink cover. Now I was make it clear that had I of been newly introduced to Tam's content I would have loved this book and I will find myself going back to it, but I feel like this just wasn't it for long time fans.
I took my time with this book thinking it would get better and in parts it did. There were sections I did enjoy. For my own life experience, the chapter on boundary setting was something I needed to absorb and in this instance I found the advice given by Tam Kaur to be inspiring. Something Tam was able to perfect with this book was her ability to self-insert in the advice given. Her own experiences were used as examples to demonstrate how the advice given can be used and have been used to improve life. These little snippets of Tam's present and past gave that sense of down-to-earthiness which allowed for this book to be an easy and comfortable read. This helped to embody what Tam does so well in her social media ventures, the essence of talking to a big sister or a friend and embodying the comfort of the ladies toilets on a night out. This really shone through in Buy Yourself The Damn Flowers.
The chapter summaries and homework sections are aspects I will enforce in my life going forward - the same way I have with Tam's other content. This YouTuber has created an easily digestible and fun to read book and I know a lot of people with adore this one. Buy Yourself The Damn Flowers ideal for beginners looking for realistic ways to push their boundaries and self perception. But, for a long time content lover of Tam, this is nothing new and I prefer her video content!
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