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This Messy Magnificent Life

By Geneen Roth & Anne Lamott
This Messy Magnificent Life by Geneen Roth & Anne Lamott digital book - Fable

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Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections.

With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy.

This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.

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3.5
Slightly Smiling Face“Definitely made me rethink my perspective on life and my own relationship with food.”
“Okay, apparently I was expecting this book to be something else, but it was a girl manifesto for other girls to feel good about their body and the author was talking about how we as women aren't free because society expects us to be thin. Super true but I do believe that thin is healthy, so let's just be healthy instead?! It's true, even Tumblr as we grow up taught us not to eat, to skip meals, to look hotter, to be better. But better doesn't always mean super fuckable, but what is super fuckable? Fuckable for me? Or fuckable for men I don't even wanna fuck with? Do read the book, it's super interesting but do not expect this book to change your life or to teach you to lose weight. It seems like a self help book but it's not, it's good though!”

About Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Food Is LoveLost and Found, and Women Food and God, as well as The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It. She has been speaking, teaching groundbreaking workshops, and offering retreats for over thirty years and has appeared on numerous national shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show20/20, the Today show, Good Morning America, and The View. For more information about her work, please visit GeneenRoth.com

 

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