Books


Hungry by Crystal Renn - There are not enough good words to put down about this book. A former 00 size model tells her remarkable story about life with anorexia and her journey to finding acceptance with her now size 12 body. Watching her struggle as she goes from a literally starving model to living the good life as her career takes off as she is now the most coveted plus size model in the world is inspirational. An AMAZING read as she intertwines her life story with scientific studies about the supposed obesity epidemic in America and the way women look at their bodies and themselves in general! It's both unique and exceptional and one that i could not recommend enough!! For sufferers of eating disorders, family members, or those just looking to understand more about the psychology behind the way we think when we choose to starve our bodies, Hungry is worth reading!!!!

Purge: Rehab Diaries by Nicole Johns - A real look at what life inside a rehab center is really like. Reading this book i couldn't help but to mark up the pages with underlines and sticky notes to go back to later. Her words could have been straight out of my own journal. Saying the gritty truth that not everyone is willing to put out there. A really remarkable read for anyone who is struggling with or recovering from an eating disorder! It's inspirational without being corny or cheesy, real without being shocking for the sake of shocking. A unique perspective and a book worth picking up for patients and family members alike! Showing the side of this illness we don't always want to talk about but every family needs to hear!

Insatiable by Eve Eliot - The fictional story of four teens, all of whom suffer from disordered eating; two anorexics, a bulimic, and a compulsive over eater. The book follows their stories as they go through the trials and pitfalls of what having an eating disorder can due to your life as a teenager, physically, emotionally, and socially. However the book would have been better suited choosing one character and developing her story to a truly in depth level, what you end up with instead is a surface deep look, at best, at their eating disorder behavior. It's a good read as far as a piece of fiction goes and perhaps one i would give to the little brother or sister of someone suffering from an eating disorder. You don't get caught up in medical jargon and the stories are interesting enough to keep you compelled to want to keep reading. Warning: The book talks in depth about food and binges so it could be triggering for some! All in all it's a good book and a lighter read so it might be worth picking up but i was expecting a LOT more since the author is a trained psychotherapist.

The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant - DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!! After completing this book i felt a little hopeless and insanely triggered! It's marketed as a recovery book but much of the book is pro-eating disorder, and she never changes the tone from angry and bitter at her rehab center. Plus her rehab stay was during 1984 in one of the first ed centers, so much of the book is not just pro ed but outdated as well. There are some very racy and graphic lesbian love scenes near the end of the book which would make it not appropriate for girls under the age of 15 i'd say. Hell some of it made me uncomfortable and i'm 20! They seem unnecessary to the story and to be frank i would have rather done without. On top of that, several parts of the book were quite triggering for me and i found myself wishing i could be anorexic instead of feeling empowered towards recovery. In all honesty, when it comes to picking out good reads or inspirational tales of recovery make sure you note this book is neither!!!



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