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Stop Playing Your F-ing Self: Own Your Shit. Stunt On These Bitches. Let Them Hate,
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Stop Playing Your Fucking Self is a raw, unapologetic guide to breaking self sabotage, overcoming fear, and reclaiming your power.
In this unfiltered follow up to her bold self empowerment series, Tanisa Thompson challenges readers to stop shrinking themselves, stop waiting for permission, and stop letting trauma, fear, excuses, and survival mode dictate their lives.
Through personal stories, hard truths, mindset shifts, and powerful reflections on discipline, visibility, confidence, generational conditioning, and emotional healing, this book pushes readers to confront the one thing standing between them and the life they truly want: themselves.
This is not a gentle self help book filled with empty motivation and surface level advice. It is a direct call to action for anyone tired of:
- Playing small
- Living in fear
- Settling for less
- Seeking validation
- Staying stuck in toxic cycles
- Ignoring their potential
Inside these pages, readers will explore themes such as:
- Radical accountability
- Self discipline and structure
- Healing survival mode
- Building confidence
- Breaking generational patterns
- Overcoming fear of success
- Visibility and self worth
- Personal growth and self mastery
Written in a bold, conversational style filled with honesty, humor, and real life experiences, Stop Playing Your Fucking Self is designed to challenge readers to think differently, move differently, and finally take ownership of their lives.
This book is for readers ready to stop making excuses, stop abandoning themselves, and fully step into who they were always meant to become.
Because once you stop playing yourself, everything fucking changes.
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