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From the Publisher on Over It Every year, desperate parents try to save their daughters from starving themselves to death. Yet every year, more girls eat less to look like their favorite supermodels. With this sobering fact in mind, Carol Emery Normandi and Lauralee Roark developed this book based on their ongoing workshops and the feedback of hundreds of young women. They look at the behaviors that may lead to eating disorders and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and eating. They go on to offer girls and their parents a map and a method for finding a realistic and livable balance. Stories and quotations from girls who have struggled with eating disorders give the book immediacy, and exercises and writing suggestions steer girls toward a healthy self-image and wholesome eating patterns.
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Your Name Is Edith: A Mother and Daughter Love Story
This is the story of how a daughter and her mother find the truth of the heart and its healing powers. It’s a chronicle of the transformative potentials found in simple acts of caring, compassion, and love. There’s magic in these pages, teaching precious insights to make every day a little richer and more fulfilling. Though a book about death and dying, this is much more than that, giving strength and support for anyone struggling with and ultimately embracing life’s greatest challenges.
“The author’s compassion, humor, and talent shine on every page of this haunting memoir.” — Patti Breitman, author of How to Say No
“Full of love, compassion and humor...a story that is heartwarming and necessary for anyone who has loved an aging parent.” — Carol Normandi, coauthor of It’s not About Food
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About Reads Reeds A collection of writings from eight authors that met weekly. Laurelee has several poignant and amusing stories on a variety of topics in this Anthology. Read about her experience at a poker tournament, or her son’s motorcycle incident and learn how each difficulty has changed and strengthened her. The Lakeside Writer’s Guild was founded in 2002 and is based in Lake County, CA.
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description Eight Outstanding Writers In the summer of 2002, this small collection of writers got together and began a dedicated writing group. Meeting nearly every week, they shared meals together, wrote, read their work and listened. For four years they supported each other’s efforts and something magical happened. They started taking their work out into the world in the form of public readings, pieces in local publications, and even the production of a successful play, titled Lakeside Stories, performed for more than 400 people. The book you hold in your hand is a sampling of creative work by eight outstanding authors. Their stories dramatize the humor and pathos of life. Their poems reflect on the meaning of everyday life. And their essays open our eyes to the world around us. This book is the fruition of years of hard work and dedication, giving you a collection of writings that will engage, entertain, and maybe even enlighten you.
“These REEDS have been woven/ into a soul boat/ stout enough to weather/ the roughest seas.” —J. Jennings, singer songwriter
“Reads is a portal into the depth of the human experience…engaging, delightfully diverse and refreshing.”
“This anthology certainly broadened my view of Lake County life and letters. I found it surprising, amusing, entertaining, edifying and titillating.” —Dan Barth, author of Coyote Haiku |
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Heal the Body, Quiet the Mind |
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"Women who read this book will be inspired to throw away their diets and scales and pick up on the nurturing, caring voice presented in these pages." --Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, authors of Overcoming Overeating.
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