LEARNING TO BE ME: My Twenty-Three-Year Battle with Bulimia - Softcover

Golden, Jocelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583484825 ISBN 13: 9781583484821

Publisher: iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

Having read many books on eating disorders, I am always inspired by ones that are written from a personal perspective. Learning To Be Me is so honest and bravely written. It offers readers immense hope, and I am already recommending it to some of my clients.-Andrea Wachter, coauthor of The Don't Diet, Live-It! WorkbookMany women in the United States who suffer from eating disorders die from the diseases annually. Learning To Be Me: My Twenty-Three-Year Battle with Bulimia is one woman's courageous battle to not become a statistic.From violent self-abuse to feelings of despair as her cries for help went unanswered, author Jocelyn Golden's Learning To Be Me chronicles her battle and ultimate victory over one of the most silent, misunderstood, and deadly eating disorders in America. With candor and wit, Golden recounts the miserable realities of living with bulimia for more than two decades and paints a vivid self-portrait of a woman obsessed with being thin.An inspirational memoir about the search for strength, motivation, and support, Learning To Be Me illustrates the importance of self-love on the journey to healing.

About this title

About the Author:

Jocelyn Golden has struggled with bulimia for more than twenty-three years. Now effectively controlling the disorder, Golden uses her experiences to educate and support other victims. She lives in Washington DC Metro.

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Prologue

What follows is the true story of my twenty-three-year battle with bulimia. From its innocuous beginnings when I was thirteen, it took me on a journey of violent self-abuse that brought me to the edge of complete self-destruction. It left me so physically damaged that I required two life-altering surgeries and, as a result, I am reminded every day of the road I have traveled. Along the way my cries for help went unheard or were misunderstood and my utter reliance on and immersion in my disease eclipsed and overshadowed everything else. It was not until nearly a quarter of a century of living every aspect of my life through this disease that I found the strength, inspiration, and support to seek the help that finally brought me into recovery and enabled me to live without my most enduring companion, bulimia.

Today I am sharing this story with you, whoever you are — sufferer, friend, family member, spouse — in the hope you can spare yourself or someone you love from taking a journey similar to mine. If I can give you or your loved one the gift of self-kindness and resisting the false promises bulimia or other eating disorders offer, then my journey will not have been in vain.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1583484825
• ISBN 13: 9781583484821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194