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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with eating disorders
'Beautiful and heart-rending . . . I could smell Africa on every
page' - A. A. Gill Caroline Jones was born in Ethiopia and spent
most of her childhood in East Africa. She read French and Spanish
at Oxford University and went on to make documentaries for the BBC.
Now aged 39, she is happily married with two children. Yet beneath
this seemingly perfect public exterior, Caroline was in fact
privately indulging in a pattern of destructive behaviour that left
her exhausted, anxious, depressed and full of self-loathing - from
the ages of 17 to 31, for 14 years, Caroline was suffering from an
extremely widespread yet comparatively little-talked about mental
illness - bulimia. Caroline is articulate, intelligent, insightful
and frank about her experiences, interweaving the journey of her
illness with memories of her African childhood, her time at Oxford,
her work for the BBC, her family and other relationships, making
for a warm and engaging memoir. Her perceptive, retrospective
approach to her illness allows her to transcend the topic of
bulimia and talk more generally about self-destructive behaviour -
there are lessons here which will speak to a little part of
everyone.
Do you ever feel like something's missing in your life - you just
can't put your finger on what? Do you ever experience cravings so
strong you feel like something's possessing you? In Hungry for
More, Mel Wells helps you dive deeper into your food and body
psychology, to help you understand how your unwanted eating
patterns and cravings might not be due to a lack of will power but
a lack of fulfilment. What's more, if you pay attention to them,
they might actually point you in the direction of your soul's true
calling. Our relationship with food is a mirror of our relationship
with life, which means our deepest cravings point to something much
greater than caramel lattes. When we set ourselves free from the
limiting beliefs we have around food and our bodies, we begin to
discover just how powerful we really are. Hungry for More is a call
to anyone who wants to look more deeply at those hidden messages
around food and cravings, and in doing so, unlock a gateway to
limitless spiritual and personal growth.
'WASTED' Marya Hornbacher Coming back from an addiction to starvation "I would do anything to keep people from going where I went. This book was the only thing I could think of." "A stunning original and beautifully written book gouging deep into a gruesome subject which, by comparison, other writers have merely flirted with." KATIE CAMPBELL, 'Evening Standard' "This factual account of a 23-year-old's experience of anorexia and bulimia is not just another confessional. It has not been written as an act of therapy or for financial gain. It is a prose poem. This does not detract from its painful force nor from the author's searing intelligence (one has to keep reminding oneself that she is only 23) but rather adds to the force of her communication …Like Plath she writes with a metaphoric intensity which at times seems tragically indistinguishable from the power of her drive to self-destruct. Her brutal honesty and her lack of special pleading, only adds to the essential pain of the book. If you want to understand anorexia, read this book." ALICE THOMPSON, 'The Scotsman' "The mind of Hornbacher is sharper than were her collar-bones when she weighed 4 stone, was given a week to live, and suddenly decided not to die. It is her 23-year-old body that was wasted by 14 years of anorexia and bulimia. Her true story is painfully honest, analytical, complex and sad: compulsive reading." 'Harpers & Queen' "A brilliant moving memoir" TOBIAS JONES, 'Frank' "What marks 'WASTED' out is the quality of the voice. Hornbacher is, simply, a good writer. Her gift for description makes even the familiar aspects of the phenomenon newly real. She is coolly vivid on the sheer violence of anorexia. There's an edge to her prose …successfully catching a young woman's desperate desire to counter the cultural voice that tells her she's "too much, too much, too much." 'WASTED' will be of value not only to fellow sufferers: any woman who has ever been made to feel gleeful by the diminishing of her physical self will gain from reading this painful and sharp-boned account." SYLVIA BROWNRIGG, 'Guardian'
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CULT-HIT TRUE CRIME PODCAST,
MY FAVORITE MURDER In STAY SEXY & DON'T GET MURDERED, Karen
Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of true crime comedy podcast
'My Favorite Murder,' open up about their lives more intimately
than ever in their confessionally honest and hilarious debut book,
titled after their podcast sign-off. Sharing never-before-heard
stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating
disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount
their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the
formative life events that shaped them into two of the most
followed voices in the podcasting world.
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