Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire - Hardcover

Bullitt-Jonas, Margaret

 
9780375400940: Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 037540094X ISBN 13: 9780375400940
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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The author describes her privileged but unhappy, emotionally repressed childhood and her long, difficult struggle with a food addiction that controlled and devastated her life

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Margaret Bullitt-Jonas was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lives with her husband and young son in a suburb west of Boston. She leads retreats in both the United States and Canada and has been involved with 12-step spirituality for more than fifteen years. She is an Episcopal priest who serves as Associate Rector of All Saints Parish, Brookline, and as a lecturer at Episcopal Divinity School.

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ng story of a young woman's recovery from a privileged yet painful childhood and away from the cravings that came to control her life. In public, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas was a superachiever--a stellar graduate student at Harvard and a dutiful daughter in a distinguished family. In private she was eating herself into oblivion. <br><br>Beginning with her childhood in an emotionally constrained home where uncommon accomplishment was the expected norm and where her father's alcoholism--and the toll it took on the family--was kept secret, food addiction became Bullitt-Jonas's means of both concealing and communicating her needs and desires. We see her life increasingly consumed by overeating and the desperate effort to make herself stop.<br><br>With extraordinary honesty and grace, she describes her descent into addiction; the crisis that forced her to choose, literally, between life and death; and the arduous process through which she learned to set aside her compulsive cravings and listen to h

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
037540094X
ISBN 13 
9780375400940
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
253
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