Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.
Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclu...
Catherine Garrett knows what it's like to be over forty and single after a long relationship. Unhappy in her marriage and her career, she did what many women are terrified to do: she let it all go. As a life coach, Catherine shares processes, meditations and stories that encourage single women over forty to release fears, challenge beliefs and limiting life definitions, expose true desires and passions, and use past relationships as springboards to create an exciting future. At one time in your life, you were an individual who had dreams and desires. Have you put your passions at the bottom...
Catherine Garrett knows what it's like to be over forty and single after a long relationship. Unhappy in her marriage and her career, she did what man...
Catherine Garrett knows what it's like to be over forty and single after a long relationship. Unhappy in her marriage and her career, she did what many women are terrified to do: she let it all go. As a life coach, Catherine shares processes, meditations and stories that encourage single women over forty to release fears, challenge beliefs and limiting life definitions, expose true desires and passions, and use past relationships as springboards to create an exciting future. At one time in your life, you were an individual who had dreams and desires. Have you put your passions at the bottom...
Catherine Garrett knows what it's like to be over forty and single after a long relationship. Unhappy in her marriage and her career, she did what man...