Starving In Search Of Me

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Aydian Dowling Public Figure: Transgender YouTube Vlogger and Activist, Motivational Speaker • 200,000 social media followers • Has been a guest interviewed on the Ellen DeGeneres show twice • First transgender man to appear on the cover of Men's Health magazine and Gay Times magazine Kate Flowers Public Figure, Vegan YouTube Vlogger and LGBTQ Activist • 200,000 social media followers Joshua Rosenthal Public Figure, Founder and Director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Author of Integrative Nutrition • 50,000 social media followers • Hundreds of thousands of Integrative Nutrition graduates in community/ online networks/ within reach Lindsey Smith Public Figure & Speaker, Author of Food Guilt No More, Hear Me Roar, Junk Foods & Junk Moods, and The Bliss Cleanse • 7,000 social media followers • Will be launching a book in Jan 2018 with a mainstream publishing house

Auteur

Marissa LaRocca is a New York-based, award-winning writer, speaker and activist. She is passionate about helping adolescents and young women embrace their individuality and overcome challenges related to emotional eating, self-acceptance, identity, sexuality, body image, and depression. She is on a mission to help others with her activism.

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FINDING THE COURAGE TO BE YOURSELF This intimate account of courage and the search for truth and meaning will have you rooting for Marissa LaRocca as she unravels the emotional layers of her own battle with food, body image, and sexuality. Readers of this _ercely self-aware memoir,_Starving in Search of Me, will relate to the coming-of-age story of a young woman confronting some of life s major questions while concealing an eating disorder along with pieces of her identity. Through her inspiring triumphs and revelations, activist author Marissa LaRocca invites us all to confront ourselves honestly, asking, What if, at the root of all disorders, is the refusal to acknowledge or permit certain feelings feelings that, if witnessed, have the power to free their sufferers? To what extent aredisorders actually doorways to helping us understand the truth about our lives? "Starving In Search of Me_is a true companion piece for anyone who has ever struggled with food or themselves. Marissa dives deep into the emotional layers we all struggle with and offers readers a compassionate voice and the opportunity to simply be themselves." Lindsey Smith, author of_Eat Your Feelings "Now more than ever before, young people need courageous voices like Marissäs to guide and reassure them that what makes them different is what makes them beautiful. If yoüve ever struggled with an eating disorder, or another form of self-harm or addiction, this book will resonate and gracefully navigate you toward hope, meaning, and light. Marissa has accomplished something substantial here she s found a way to articulate in words the intangible depths of an experience that is hers, and all of ours." Kate "Fruit" Flowers "A thoughtful and enlightening meditation on identity and self-acceptance. A lesson in how to surrender." Aydian Dowling, LGBTQ Activist

Résumé
This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what itâ™s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca's revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets including sexuality and how she emergedas an outspoken advocate for gay rights and womenâ™s health issues

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The way I see it, when you're a child, the world is big and that's okay because it's far away. When you're all grown up, the world is smaller and more manageable because you've carved your shape into it, so you need only to live in that shape. But when you're stuck in that awkward space between childhood and adulthood, it's like being a fly in a windstorm, trying to navigate a limitless sky while gusts of wind blow at you from every direction. I was still trying to get my shit together, far too curious to commit to anything, let alone an identity. I was simply hungry for so many things I could not yet define.