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“The body, in the end, isn’t a metaphor; it is flesh and folds and heaving breath and a beating heart. The body, in the end, is hungry.”

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i can’t believe i got this book for one dollar!

“Hour of the Cold Foot in a Soggy Sock” 🔥

oh Irv 🥹

plot twist!!!!

“There are some places that you swear you’ll never go back to because the space itself has become inseparable from the time; the there is the same as the then and you don’t know how to deal with the space if it’s inside a different slot of time” 😮

my eyeballs are wet on the subway

a bear!! almost 300 pages into near town #2 and it’s the first bear!

i feel like the book could end here!! i can’t believe fredrik has more of this book and 2 other books in this series for me to read, what a guy

i know how to read

my opinion has formed: this book is a weird time

i really don’t know how i feel about this book

there are so many characters but confusingly i’m not confused

“Because you can be upset while you’re eating chocolate Santas. But it’s much, much, much more difficult.” - agree

“So the teachers are wrong. Elsa has no problems concentrating. She just concentrates on the right things.”

- this is kind of blowing my mind. this might be how i feel about my own adhd?? but then, am i being enabled by a 7 year old fictional character??

“Dowdy, prudish” - VERY rude to use my surname as a roast

“I felt a surge of grief, I, who have never known men” - one of the most exciting parts of this book was finding the line with a shoutout to the title

finally, shit is going down in the bunker

if I was less dead inside, I’d shed a tear

there are good people in the world, mr. martin 🥲

i’m picking up what you’re putting down carolyn!

really nice sized book for holding. very ergonomically satisfying

i don’t hate this book and she’s got some insightful stuff to say. BUT as a life coach she’s at times out of her depth. she recognises that body image issues can be covering up/ an attempt to cope with deeper issues but is not trauma-informed and doesn’t have skills to recognize that taking away someone’s primary coping mechanism without trauma processing can be dangerous

i’ve accepted the fact that i’m going to be a little bit confused for the duration of this book

wat the actual fuck “If our sense of healthy shame could be preserved… we could see a woman as a Madonna, a Priestess, as Mother Earth with nurturing breasts, as the uterus in which life is formed, and at the same time a chatty Kathy, sometimes empty-headed, too plump, horny, ordinary, having to go to the toilet - then we could embrace her in her true human personhood”

i’m livid. he identifies “obesity” as an eating disorder. that’s not an eating disorder, it’s a medicalised fatphobic description of a body. eating disorders are not body types!!!! eating disorders are about thoughts and behaviors. fuck you john bradshaw

i’m absolutely hating every page. flicked to the back to read about the author and he studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood which fully checks out because this book has been seeped with christian ideology. i wanted an explanation for what so-called healthy shame is and so far i have not received that. what he cites as healthy shame is to me guilt/ humility/ not shame. i’ll push through bc i’m stubborn

i’d worried about reading another book after reading such a great one, but yes this is a good one too

i’d worried about reading another book after reading such a great one, but yes this is a good one too

i’d worried about reading another book after reading such a great one, but yes this is a good one too