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Leadership & Inspiration for Trailblazers (LIFT) is a women's networking group that focuses on the core values of Empowerment, Education, Connection, Inspiration, and Inclusion of our WNY community. We welcome you to engage with this group to find self discovery and contribution to your professional journey. The mission is to support professional women so they can succeed. All members welcome.
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LIFT Book Club: Each session is limited to 4-12 seats

Join us for more than just a book club—this is a space where women lift each other up, share stories that spark courage, and build meaningful connections within our Chamber community. Together, we’ll explore ideas that challenge and inspire, creating an intimate experience that celebrates growth and empowerment.

Book Choice:
"Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" by Lori Gottlieb
NON-FICTION
Participants would be required to borrow or purchase their own Book or eBook from any notable retailer.
Most sessions are VIRTUAL on Wednesdays. The link will be emailed prior to session start.
The final session on Wednesday, October 14th, will be in-person at the Amherst Chamber of Commerce at 12pm for ALL sessions to review and conclude the readings. Lunch will be served.

12pm Session Facilitator: Katelyn Dawson, Visit Buffalo

• Time: 12-12:45pm
• Date: Bi Weekly Virtual Wednesdays
  • 8/19/2026
  • 9/2/2026
  • 9/16/2026
  • 9/30/2026
  •  10/14/2026 
    • End Lunch Joint Session: In person at Amherst Chamber on Wednesday at 12:00pm on 10/14/2026

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb (Author)  Format: Hardcover

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars   (51,146)

4.4 on Goodreads

419,285 ratings

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Now being developed as a television series!*An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019*  *A People Magazine Book of the Week*
*An Apple Best Books Pick for April*
*An April IndieNext Pick*
*A Book of the Month Club Selection*
*A Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book*
*A Newsday, Apple iBooks, Thrive Global, Refinery29, 
and Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of 2019*

"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition."--Kirkus, starred review

"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."--Katie Couric

"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book."--Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book."--Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is rev­olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per­sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal­ing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.