Starving in search of me
Subtitle: a coming-of-age story of overcoming an eating disorder and finding self-acceptance
By: by Marissa LaRocca
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781633537125
Subjects: Patients; Eating disorders; Biography; Self-help
Description: This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca's revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets including sexuality and how she emerged as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women's health issues.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents;; title: Foreword --; title: Introduction; -- PART 1:; title: What's eating the wallflower -- -- Chapter 1:; title: Why are you so quiet? -- -- Chapter 2:; title: My quarter-life crisis -- -- Chapter 3 :; title: My secret battle with food -- -- Chapter 4 :; title: The road to recovery -- -- PART 2:; title: 10 Life tips to heal you from self-harm -- -- Chapter 5:; title: Reflect on the root causes of your behavior -- -- Chapter 6 :; title: Stop playing the victim -- -- Chapter 7 :; title: Make time to make peace with your body -- -- Chapter 8:; title: Speak up and ask for what you need -- -- Chapter 9 :; title: Trust your intuition -- -- Chapter 10 :; title: Make choices that make you happy -- -- Chapter 11:; title: Spend your energy wisely -- -- Chapter 12:; title: Organize your living space to promote wellbeing -- -- Chapter 13:; title: Eat mindfully, but not neurotically -- -- Chapter 14:; title: Check in with yourself as you evolve -- -- Chapter 15:; title: Final words.