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Maggy van Eijk

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I've written a book about mental health: specifically on my experiences with depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, trauma and body image.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 1,135 ratings · 152 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	How Not to Fall Apart: Lessons Learned on the Road from Self-Harm to Self-Care 3.92 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Baby Shot Me Down by Richard Penny (Editor), Clarissa Angus, Katherine Black (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	وقتی غمگینی به‌یاد آر by Maggy van Eijk (Goodreads Author), منصوره وحدتی (Translator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Not to Fall Apart: Lessons Learned on the Road from Self-Harm to Self-Care by Maggy van Eijk (Goodreads Author), Nicola Barber (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My body is not my enemy. It just overreacts to things sometimes and that's actually OK.”
― Maggy van Eijk, Remember This When You're Sad: A book for mad, sad and glad days

tags: anxiety, body-positivity, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, positive-thinking

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“Reading is my natural antidepressant. I don’t want to be without it.”
― Maggy van Eijk, How Not to Fall Apart: Lessons Learned on the Road from Self-Harm to Self-Care

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Maggy Eijk’s Quotes

“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
― Carrie Fisher

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“My body is not my enemy. It just overreacts to things sometimes and that's actually OK.”
― Maggy van Eijk, Remember This When You're Sad: A book for mad, sad and glad days

tags: anxiety, body-positivity, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, positive-thinking

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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