This Is Me Letting You Go

I absolutely love Heidi’s work on YouTube. This book wasn’t my favorite. It is somehow too personal, while also being too cryptic and nebulous to be instructive. Reading this felt like reading someone’s personal diary, written in a wavering sort of poetic ambiguity and sanitized of identifying information. There is a raw sentimentality… an effervescence that seems to arise not from a deep well of hope, but in an almost fearful and reactive manner, as if the bubbles are running, screaming, away from an unaddressed and unnamed well of despair, in search of a silver lining. I think Heidi is both more self aware and a much better writer than this book demonstrates. I hope she will continue to share her gifts with us, and that if she chooses to write from personal experience again, that she bravely confronts more of the places that scare her.