Eating My Way to Heaven

by Denise Martin, Pat Martin (Illustrator)

A well-written, wickedly funny and heartbreakingly honest, Eating My Way to Heaven is an unforgettable story about one woman’s battle with food and drug abuse, and her ultimate triumph over her addictions. In this page-turner autobiography, Martin takes the reader inside the devastating effects of sexual abuse and incest and the complicated, painful road to recovery. While Martin’s story addresses serious issues of dysfunctional families, physical and psychological addictions, it also provides vital information on the value of good nutrition, health and well-being. It is sure to encourage all those battling with various addictions to learn how to live with purpose and discover a life of balance and peace. Eating My Way to Heaven is not a typical "diet" book, but reads like a fast-moving screenplay for a Hollywood blockbuster, with such personalities as Mickey Rooney, Farrah Fawcett and Oprah each adding their personal twist to the tale.

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2005

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

This bizarre self-published memoir is one of the weirder things I've ever read. It was given to me free by the author's self-promotion team at Wordstock, of all places, and it was incessantly advertised on the sides of Portland buses for months. Ostensibly the true story of a woman who, through personal tragedy and self-discovery, discovers and changes her unhealthy relationship with food (and drugs, and by analogy, people), it's actually an uncomfortably manic ride with a woman who struck me as likely bipolar and certainly delusional. It was badly written, thinly veiled proselytizing for weird new-age spirituality, and it felt like being stuck next to this crazy on a bus for hours on end. I finished it solely out of morbid curiosity (I wanted to find out if she was ever hospitalized...no such luck).

[Denise Martin]

I was ahead of my time trying to share this story about the paranormal experience I had on SuPRANAtural foods. Now the time for this evolutionary story to be told is perfect!