From the wildly popular Instagram account, Disappointing Affirmations hilariously counters relentless toxic positivity with a more realistic take on a disappointing world. Pairing lovely vacation photos taken by the author with sayings that are amusingly self-critical, encouraging, and disillusioned. Tarnowski points to feelings commonly unacknowledged or hidden and spotlights them with humor, wit, and empathy. Transforming and re-envisioning the material for print while adding tons of new work, this is the funny-because-it’s-true, sneaky self-help book for anyone who isn’t happy all the time and doesn’t feel seen in “positive mental attitudes.”

• A rather realistic self-help book with new and reprinted works from the @disappointingaffirmations Instagram account
• Hilariously counters the culture of relentless toxic positivity with a realistic take on a disappointing world
• Hardcover

• 96 pages
• (H) 6.5”